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What Keeps Neil deGrasse Tyson Awake at Night?

March 29, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter This: And now it keeps me — and most likely you — awake at night too. But in a good way. (Right?) “Imagine another life form that’s one percent different from us, in the direction that we are one percent different [...]

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Mars Sample Return Mission? Naaah… Just Beam Back Martian DNA

October 19, 2012

Artist concept of a Mars Sample Return mission. Credit: Wickman Spacecraft & Propulsion. A Mars sample return mission has long been a dream and goal of many planetary scientists. Getting Martian soil samples back here on Earth would allow them to be studied in ways rovers and landers just can’t do. Of course, the big [...]

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Kickstart Your DNA (And a Rover) To The Moon!

July 9, 2012

Omega Envoy, the non-profit research lab Earthrise Space, Inc.’s team competing for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, has launched a Kickstarter project to help fund a 4-axis CNC milling machine needed to continue development on their proposed lunar rover. CNC machines don’t come cheap, but in typical Kickstarter fashion Earthrise Space is offering incremental rewards [...]

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