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Cultural Bias Distorts the Search for Alien Life
Since time immemorial, humans have looked to the heavens above to make sense of life below, right here on Earth.…
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With New Study, NASA Seeks the Science behind UFOs
On June 9, with only a few hours’ notice, NASA held a press conference to announce a study it was…
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Don’t Fear China’s Falling Rocket—Fear the Future It Foretells
Spaceflight, despite its origins in cold war saber-rattling, is often portrayed as a purely beneficial endeavor that somehow helps all…
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Seismic Missions Could Reveal the Solar System’s Underworlds
Besides their successful landing on the moon, the astronauts of Apollo 11 made another historic “first” in July 1969 when…
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New Instrument Could Spy Signs of Alien Life in Glowing Rocks
Was Mars ever a living world? Billions of years ago, before it became a freeze-dried desert, the Red Planet was…
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Maunakea’s Controversial Telescopes Are Getting New Management
One of the most coveted and contested astronomical sites on the planet—the summit of Hawaii’s massive mountain Maunakea—will soon be…
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Astronauts Will Wear These Spacesuits on the Moon—And Maybe Mars, Too
Sooner or later, humans will set foot on the moon again—perhaps by the middle of this decade if NASA’s Artemis…
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Meet the Woman Who Makes the James Webb Space Telescope Work
“Give me a telescope, and I can come up with something good to do with it,” says Jane Rigby, an…
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NASA’s Tiny CAPSTONE CubeSat Launches on Pioneering Moon Mission
NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE spacecraft has begun its long, history-making journey to the moon. The 55-pound (25 kilograms) cubesat launched today…
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Controversy Grows Over whether Mars Samples Endanger Earth
Less than a decade from now, a spacecraft from Mars may swing by Earth to drop off precious cargo: samples…
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