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Best Space Photos of the Week - May 18, 2013
From snow falling on our largest telescopes to cool lunar vehicles in space, don't miss these ama...
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Electric Cars on Earth and Mars: How They Stack Up
Electric vehicles have no real competitors for the Martian market.
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Huge Rock Crashes Into Moon, Sparks Giant Explosion
A new 65-foot-wide impact crater is the result.
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Spectacular Auroras Dance Over Michigan in Time-Lapse Video
A new video from a skywatcher in northern Michigan shows amazing views of the auroras and other c...
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Huge Asteroid to Fly Past Earth This Month
The May 31 flyby of 1.7-mile-long 1998 QE2 poses no threat to Earth.
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Brilliant Science Blunders: Astrophysicist Mario Livio Spea...
What we can learn from the greatest scientific mistakes in history.
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The agency must take a realist attitude to what can be done with little money, Bolden said.
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Private Mars Flyby Mission Ponders NASA & Comme...
Inspiration Mars may use a SpaceX rocket, a pair of ULA boosters, or NASA's SLS.
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The eruption shouldn't pose a threat to Earth but may supercharge northern lights displays.
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Search For Life
Congress to Discuss Search for 'Alien Earths' T...
Congress wants an update on the search for planets like our own.
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Best Time to See Moon Mountains in May Is Now
The mountains of the moon are visible for those that wish to see them this month.
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New Rocket Fuel Helps NASA 'Go Green'
By 2015 there'll be something green in space, and it won't be aliens!
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Exoplanets: Worlds Beyond Our Solar System
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Total solar eclipses are one of Nature’s grandest events. What...
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The Mobile Science Lab flashes some complex moves to get rock samples from drill bit to baking chamber for chemical analysis (CHIMRA experiment).
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