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# space
Time calls the Ares rocket one of this year's best inventions. The problem is that nothing about Ares is actually new or inventive...
# space
The biggest problem with creating a warp drive is coming up with the energy to power one, even for a moment.
# space
America won the space race and the Cold War. Now, its access to space will be controlled by the whims of the country it defeated thanks to its myopic politicians.
# space
The coldest place in our solar system isn't somewhere in the outer reaches of the Oort Cloud. It's a network of craters on the Moon.
# space
Current plans for our return to the Moon seem a little too vague to be successful.
# space
One of the weirdest extrasolar planets we've found so far is a superheated puffball that orbits its star in the wrong direction.
# space
Thanks to budget constraints and slow-walking replacement vehicles, NASA is about to left without a way to get humans in orbit without paying Russia for a ride.
# space
Boredom and small spaces for an extended period of time wreak havoc on the human psyche. That's going to be a huge problem on extended missions into deep space.
# astrobiology
Statistically, and scientifically, the aliens are out there. The only question is how long it will take us to find them.
# tech
Before we explore the universe, robots will have to lead the way. And for them to find the best places to colonize will be to become self-sustaining.