Mars Challenge.
Got an idea for kickstarting the human settlement of the Red Planet? Then NASA wants to hear from you, pilgrim!
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Mercury Slam . . . how to kill a starship.
A NASA planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end Thursday when it slammed into Mercury’s surface
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How the Zombie Stars scream!
Peering into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has spotted a mysterious glow
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A Space Traveller’s Guide To The Solar System by Mark Thompson (book review).
Mark Thompson’s book, ‘A Space Traveller’s Guide To The Solar System’, is the ideal fodder for both Science Fiction writers
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The Secret Life Of Space by Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest (book review).
The authors Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest should be familiar to people in the UK as being astronomers and astrophysicists
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Mathematics And The Real World by Zvu Artstein (book review).
The title sense of Zvu Artstein’s book, ‘Mathematics And The Real World, comes from its extended sub-title ‘The Remarkable Role
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Lunar caverns will hold entire cities, says Purdue University.
Lava tubes large enough to house cities could be structurally stable on the moon, according to a study presented at
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Mysterious dust cloud and aurora spotted around Mars.
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has observed two unexpected phenomena in the Martian atmosphere: an unexplained high-altitude
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Help save humanity from asteroid extinction with a single download.
A software application based on an algorithm created by a NASA challenge has the potential to increase the number of
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Chances for life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus rise dramatically.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first clear evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus exhibits signs of present-day hydrothermal activity
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