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Here’s what life would be like on Mars
The idea of living on Mars has been a staple of science fiction since the 19th century, when American astronomer Percival Lowell speculated that the channels on the Red Planet were really ancient...
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Here's why this Texas Republican's dreams to send people to a star is equally...
If ever there were an agency that thinks big, it's NASA. The first and only agency to send people to the surface of the moon, NASA has now been asked to develop the technology to send manned missions...
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has short circuited
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity experienced an electrical problem last week, and the robot will stay put for a few days while mission engineers try to figure out exactly what happened.The car-size...
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Amazing images of what Mars looked like with water
Mars is a freezing desert today, but 4 billion years ago it harbored a vast and deep ocean, according to new research published Thursday in the journal Science.This ocean could have reached depths of...
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Here's why Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks no one will back Mars One
There are several private companies vying to set up the first human colony on Mars, and so far not one of them seems to have the financial backing to make it happen. This is not surprising, according...
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Most Americans would turn down a free trip to space
Imagine that Elon Musk shows up at your front door. He tells you that you've just won an all-expenses-paid trip to space.Would you go?If you said yes, you probably won't find very many people who would...
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Mars Opportunity rover came across some never-before-seen rocks on the Red...
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover is taking a break in the home stretch of its Red Planet marathon to study some rocks the likes of which it's never seen before.The intriguing rocks lie atop a hill...
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Mars One CEO 'still fully committed' despite tidal waves of criticism
Mars One, the company planning to send people on a one-way trip to Mars, has been battered with criticism in the past couple months.The most recent example is a blistering story written by Elmo Keep...
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Another essential ingredient for life was discovered on Mars
The more scientists learn about Mars, the more intriguing the Red Planet becomes as a potential haven for primitive life in the ancient past ... and perhaps even the present.A study released today...
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Epically awesome photos of Mars
Mars might not look like much from Earth, but close up, it's a perfect spectacle of natural beauty.Since 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has been orbiting Mars snapping pictures of the...
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NASA's longest-running and most successful Mars rover may be brought to a...
It’s been a long time coming, but this week NASA’s Mars Opportunity rovercompleted the first-ever Martian marathon. After landing on the Red Planet in January 2004 on a mission originally planned to...
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NASA is about to test a flying saucer that will help send the first...
From 2:30 to 3:30 pm ET, NASA will live broadcast the test of their Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator, or LDSD, which resembles a flying saucer.Perhaps the most iconic symbol to emerge from the...
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Bill Nye and the Planetary Society say we could be sending humans to orbit...
Start your clocks. If the Planetary Society gets its wish, humans will be lifting off for the Red Planet eighteen years from now.That’s the conclusion of 70 experts in various fields relating to human...
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5 things Elon Musk believed would change the future of humanity... in 1995
So what drives a game-changing figure like Elon Musk?That's what Neil deGrasse Tyson was wondering when he got the chance to interview Musk for the March 22 episode of his StarTalk Radio podcast.Musk...
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Viewers complain a chocolate company's TV ad is trying 'to turn young people...
Australian TV viewers have complained to the region's Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) about the way a Maltesers advertisement (watch it in full below) portrayed homosexuality.The ad showed two...
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Big, beautiful photos of the giant flying saucer NASA is using to send humans...
The way we think of flying saucers is about to get a pretty serious makeover.Instead of transporting aliens across the universe (as portrayed in sci-fi films), rocket-powered flying saucers could send...
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Here's Elon Musk's full argument against flying cars
Elon Musk is a titan of tech innovation. He has made the electric car sexy again and revolutionized the solar-electricity market, and he also has plans for a Mars mission to set up an off-Earth colony...
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Here's what NASA plans to do if an astronaut dies in space
President Nixon was prepared for Neil Armstrong and the other Apollo 11 astronauts to die on the moon in 1969.Written in an old memo titled "In Event of Moon Disaster" is Nixon's backup speech for the...
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New find suggests that liquid water flows on Mars
Liquid water lurks just below the surface of Mars on cold winter nights, according to new research.The Mars Curiosity rover has found evidence that when temperatures drop on cold winter nights, trace...
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BILL NYE: Mars is horribly inhospitable — here's why we should send humans...
Mars is a freezing, oxygen-less, barren wasteland.So why do we want to go there again?Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye appeared on astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk Radio show in March and...
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