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Shaun Of The Dead, Total Recall, And More Represented In Nifty 8-Bit GIFs
Earlier this week, I blathered on about how much I love seeing films reduced to children’s book material, and now …
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It’s Alive! Yutu Shows Signs Of Life After Malfunction
After arriving on the moon on December 14, China’s Yutu rover experienced a malfunction in late January, just before hibernating …
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NASA Program Aims To Put Commercial Landers On The Moon, Stirs Property Rights Debate
NASA recently announced a new initiative called Lunar CATALYST (Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown) and is seeking proposals …
Chinese Moon Rover Yutu May Be In Trouble
China’s moon rover Yutu landed on the moon on December 14, 2013, making China the third country to land a …
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China’s Moon Rover Delivers More Stunning Photos From The Lunar Surface
In mid-December, China became the third country to land a craft on the moon. But given the holidays and the …
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China’s Yutu Rover Hits The Surface Of The Moon
They haven’t found any monoliths yet.
A Plan Make The Moon A Hub For Solar Power By Putting A Ring Around It
America may not be sending people to the moon anytime soon, but recently NASA has been interested in how we …
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NASA Will Try To Grow Plants On The Moon In 2015
In President Obama’s 2010 speech on the country’s space program, he undid the previous administration’s plan to send American astronauts …
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Catch Sunday’s Rare Hybrid Solar Eclipse—It Won’t Happen Again For 159 Years
It’s a good thing we’re getting an extra hour tonight — I plan on waking up before 6:30 a.m. tomorrow …
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NASA Prepares Orion For Unmanned Flight Tests
Despite the government shutdown, NASA was able to continue working on the Orion, NASA’s next manned spacecraft. Before any humans …
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The Moon Is Covered In Human Feces
Those of you who saw Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity this past weekend—and if the box office numbers are any indication there …
There May Be Habitable Moons Beyond Our Solar System
Stephen Hawking, like David Attenborough, believes earthlings are in for some tough times ahead. Hawking has said he thinks it’s …
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NASA’s LADEE Moon Probe Puts On Show For The Eastern U.S.
Late Friday night, NASA launched a Minotaur V rocket carrying a lunar orbiter called LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment …
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China Will Land A Probe On The Moon By The End Of 2013
While we here at Giant Freakin’ Robot would never claim to be xenophobic, we admit that a good portion of …
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The Moon Shows New Evidence Of Subsurface Water
When it comes to space science, finding water on the moon has been something of a holy grail to astronomers …
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Beautiful Fan Made Posters For Most Of Your Favorite Movies
Fan art, taken as a whole, is a hit or miss proposition most days. There are some pieces that you …
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Apollo 11 HD Photos Celebrate The Mission’s 44th Anniversary
One small snapshot for man…
Misson To The Moon’s South Pole Planned For 2016
It’s a big week for our moon, Earthlings. Yesterday was the 44th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s first steps onto the …
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Victorian Observatory Where Early Moon Pictures Were Taken Is Getting An Extensive Restoration
It’s an image bred from naiveté, but whenever I mentally picture the Victoria Era, I see hoity-toity women walking around …
National Park On The Moon Proposed (Yosemite Is So Passé)
It’s one hell of a road trip, but sign me up! Why battle the crowds at Yosemite, Yellowstone, or the …
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Last Video Of The Moon From Crashed NASA Spacecraft Ebb And Flow
If this were a real horror movie, and not that exercise in plot procrastination that was Apollo 18, then this …
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Duncan Jones Does Live Twitter Commentary For Moon
One of the biggest advantages of the digital revolution has been the director’s commentary track. The special feature recording found …
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European Space Agency Says NASA Is Planning To Return To The Moon Within A Decade
For the first time since 1972, NASA is planning to go back to the Moon. According to the European Space …
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The US Planned To Nuke The Moon As A Show Of Cold War Might
It’s no secret that over the years governments have been involved in some pretty harebrained schemes. There have been scams, …
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Moon’s Ocean of Storms, Like Most Planetary Indentions, Probably Created By Meteors
I’ve never been able to see the mythological Man in the Moon. But if someone asked me if I could …
Today Is The 50th Anniversary Of JFK’s Moon Speech
Fifty years ago today, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy stood behind a podium at Rice University and dared us to put …
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Moon Bubbles: Do They Hold The Key To Radiation Shielding On Spacecraft?
Mankind may have walked on it, zoomed around it, and thrown satellites into its surface, but the moon still has …
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A Goodbye To Neil Armstrong, The Most Important Man Who Ever Lived
He wasn’t just the guy who happened to be first out of the airlock.