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Printing outposts on the Moon is all the rage for mission planners. And if they succeed, we will all feel the benefits here on Earth.
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A passive, cramped fly-by of Mars just to say we did it is a terrible, no good, very bad idea.
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Tracking the speed of an event horizon can tell us what a black hole ate, give us a clue as to how it was formed, and whether it survived a major collision.
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Early concept drawings from the shuttle program shows us that the end result was full of shortcuts that should not have been taken for the benefit of humanity's space-faring future.
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We just found the Higgs boson, and already a few scientists think it might be responsible for destroying the universe on a random day in the unspecified future.
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Combining the expense and inconvenience of a rocket launch with the noise and danger of hypersonic flight, this space liner is very unlikely to ever take off.
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On the largest cosmological scale, the universe is supposed to be homogenous. A new discovery puts that principle in question.
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A simulated mission to Mars finds that one of the biggest potential threats to astronauts outside of radiation will be cabin fever.
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Extrasolar moons of gas giants may be the perfect worlds for life outside out solar system. And they should be even more common than planets.
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Planetary scientists who want to study plants other than Mars and very unhappy with what they see as NASA's obsession with the red planet.