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As the international race to explore Mars heats up, some writers are resurrecting an old hypothesis that life on Earth really started on the red planet.
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There are good reasons why designs for human outposts on other planets are starting to look nothing like the typical science fiction tropes with which we’ve grown up.
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When stars get too close to each other the encounters can end in cannibalism, massive explosions, and even parasitic infestations.
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Neutron stars’ thunder is usually stolen by black holes, but these bizarre objects living on the edge of physics create plenty of fascinating phenomena all on their own.
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Water usually means life. But could too much water snuff out life before it has a chance to evolve?
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Today, nothing can replace terrestrial mining. But if make the necessary long-term investments, our reward will be nearly infinite cheap resources, and a cleaner, healthier Earth.
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Science fiction taught us that humanity’s next destination in space should be Mars, but science disagrees.
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Astronauts get a very rare and unique perspective on our planet, one in which our world isn’t just a steppingstone to the stars, but a fragile home to be protected.
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Private companies launching humans into space is a profound game changer. We just need to follow it to its logical conclusion.
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Astronomers looking into the orbits of Kuiper Belt objects may have found a flaw in data we thought pointed to the existence of a large planet beyond Neptune’s orbit.