Ceres, Ho!
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. The spacecraft was approximately 38,000
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Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean . . . from wet world to dead planet.
A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories,
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My blaster’s set to kill! ATHENA laser weapon zaps truck the &^%$ up.
Lockheed Martin’s30-kilowatt fiber laser weapon system successfully disabled the engine of a small truck during a recent field test, demonstrating
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Arrival on dwarf planet Ceres comes close.
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has returned new images captured on approach to its historic orbit insertion at the dwarf planet Ceres.
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Brilliant! By Bob Johnson (book review).
Want to hear a light story? I mean a real light story, like the ones you must have in your
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Making A Real Dalek: an assessment by: GF Willmetts (article).
The nature of this article came about when we were approached by a representative of the Horror Channel asking us
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My Favourite Picture by Andy Bollan (article).
I love this picture. I first saw it on NASA’a APOD website http://apod.nasa.gov/apod roughly 10 years ago. It looks like
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Rare by Keith Veronese (book review).
‘Rare’ has nothing to do with steaks or seldom seen animals but something far more important that we all use
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Soyuz Owners’ Workshop Manual: 1967 Onwards (All Models) by David Baker (book review).
If you thought that the ‘Soyuz Owners’ Workshop Manual’ was solely, as astronaut Helen Sharman calls ‘a workhorse’, about the
Read MoreUp close and personal with Pluto.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently began its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto. The spacecraft is entering the first of several
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