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Mars One might be imploding under its own hype but that doesn't mean we can't learn from its ability to tap into people's desire to explore.
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Robotics researcher Srikanth Saripalli advances a bizarre argument against human spaceflight and in favor of sending a robots we haven't invented yet to distant worlds.
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Astronauts will go stir crazy and get cabin fever on interplanetary missions. And it will have to be every mission planner's job to keep them sane and entertained.
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If we're going to have astronauts working and living in space for years at a time, cramming them in tight, fixed spaces without artificial gravity is doing them, and us, a major disservice.
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The bizarre, extremely fast radio bursts astronomers have been detecting might be the result of doomed neutron stars...
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When you remake a fan favorite, you're doomed to get a bad reaction from a lot of die hards, and Star Trek was no exception.
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As far as colonization ideas go, Mars One is a terrible one.
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Planck has given us more precise measurements of how the universe works, but mostly confirms what we know.
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Europa is one of the most promising places to find alien life in our solar system, but exploring the moon isn't as easy as just landing on the surface and starting to drill and probe.