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Engineers Develop a Whole New Way to Use Curiosity’s Drill After a Recent Hardware Failure
Due to a mechanical failure, engineers at NASA JPL have developed a new method for the Curiosity drill, which was…
Book Review: Inventing a Space Mission
Where will science's next big advance arise? Like Archimedes, maybe someone will jump up out of a tub of hot…
The Biggest Airplane Taxis Down the Runway, By 2020 it Could Be Launching Rockets
In preparation for its maiden flight, StratoLaunch's Roc aircraft - the largest aircraft in the world - recently conducted its…
Did the Milky Way Steal These Stars or Kick Them Out of the Galaxy?
A new study by an international team of astronomers has determined that stars in the Milky Way's halo actually formed…
Space Catapult Startup SpinLaunch has Come Out of Stealth Mode. Space catapults? Yes Please
Reclusive SpinLaunch founder Jonathon Yaney recently broke his silence about his vision to reduce the costs of space exploration by…
Bacteria Surviving On Musk’s Tesla Are Either A Bio-threat Or A Backup Copy Of Life On Earth
Is Musk's Tesla Roadster in space a biological threat to life on other worlds, a back-up for life on Earth,…
Amazing High Resolution Image of the Core of the Milky Way, a Region with Surprisingly Low Star Formation Compared to Other Galaxies
An international team of astronomers recently conducted a study of the Milky Way center to determine why it has a…
Proxima Centauri Just Released a Deadly Flare, so it’s Probably not a Great Place for Habitable Planets
A new study recorded a massive flare coming from Proxima Centauri, a finding which casts doubt on it having any…
Precise New Measurements From Hubble Confirm the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe. Still no Idea Why it’s Happening
A new survey performed by the SHoES team using Hubble has confirmed that the Universe is in an accelerated rate…
22 Years Of The Sun From Soho
SOHO is celebrating a huge milestone, and one it was never intended to meet: it has now observed one complete,…