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ISS Gets A Four-Year Extension
I’m not sure if you knew that the International Space Station had a pre-planned death date. Maybe that’s being melodramatic. …
Sci-Fi Movie Producer Bernard Glasser Dies At 89
B-movie science fiction producer Bernard Glasser died in Los Angeles this past Thursday. Glasser mainly produced low-budget sci-fi films from …
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Russia Plans To Send Probe To Ganymede
Jupiter is set to give Mars and Saturn a run for their money when it comes to being the most …
NASA Scientists Control Robotic Arm With Kinect And Oculus Rift
Robots in space — two great tastes that taste great together. They might go to Mars ahead of the humans …
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Cassini Offers A New Glimpse Of The Pale Blue Dot
Given my fascination with the universe, my love for Carl Sagan, and my hopes that the reboot of Cosmos will …
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The Most Amazing Science Stories Of 2013
Humanity at its best.
All I Want For Christmas Is The Success of Cosmos
Neil DeGrasse Tyson walks in Carl Sagan’s footsteps.
Asteroid Hunting Spacecraft NEOWISE Is Back In Business
Forget diamonds — asteroids are the hottest rocks out there. And unlike most objects, celestial or otherwise, asteroids have a …
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Hubble Captures Water Vapor Plumes On Europa
Scientists consider Jupiter’s moon Europa one of the best candidates for harboring alien life in the solar system. Its atmosphere …
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Arthur C. Clarke: A Birthday Retrospective
We celebrate one of science fiction’s “Big Three.”
Monkey Business: Iran Sends Primate Into Space
Iran made the news today, but thankfully not for their nuclear program or economic sanctions. Today Middle Eastern nation announced …
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Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s Superhero Robot
We’ve done lots of posts here on GFR about NASA, many of which bemoan the state and the budget of …
Overview Video Has Astronauts Talking About How Space Changed Their View Of The World
If you’ve seen Gravity, you undoubtedly spent some of that time marveling at the views of Earth. Who cares if …
Scientists Appeal To Congress To Support Technology To Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Given how many candidate planets Kepler has identified, and the recently announced estimate that billions of habitable planets may exist …
British Interplanetary Society Wants To Build Rotating Space Colonies
I want to go to there.
Asteroid Mining Could Launch Us Even Deeper Into Space
There’s been quite a bit of talk of asteroids lately, and not in the usual one’s-about-to-slam-into-Earth-thus-obliterating-all-life-dear-god-Bruce-Willis-can-you-save-us kind of way. Well, …
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Robots Run This Space-Themed Chinese Hotel
Okay, China. You win. A space-themed hotel is pretty badass, but staffing it with robots? Total genius. Given that most …
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This Video Of A Soyuz Capsle Is The Closest We’ll Get To Experiencing Reentry
If you’re anything like me, you’ve fantasized about being an astronaut. Maybe this stopped when you saw Gravity, or maybe …
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Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan: A Tribute
You’re much missed, Carl.
It’s A Bird, It’s a Plane…It’s a Six-Tailed Comet?
The more we learn about space, the more we realize how much we still don’t know, like how the P/2013 …
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Lady Gaga Set To Perform In Space In 2015
We probably shouldn’t be too surprised by this. If there were any performer ready to sing in space, it would …
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Billions Of Potentially Habitable, Earth-Like Planets Could Exist In The Milky Way
Let’s see what’s out there.
10-Year-Old Discovers Ancient Supernova
The Gray family of Nova Scotia, Canada has some intense sibling rivalry going on. But unlike with my brother and …
Exoplanet Infographic Tracks All The Worlds Discovered By The Kepler Telescope
It’s well past the witching hour here as I write this, and I should really be going to bed. But …
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UN Approves Asteroid Protection Guidelines And Japan Tests An Asteroid-Blasting Space Cannon
Between huge meteor chunks being recovered from a Russian lake, planned asteroid mining, and space rocks that fly by and …
Five Sci-Fi Movies With Halloween Hearts
Halloween makes a freaky backdrop for sci-fi fun.
SpaceX Is One Step Closer To Manned Flight Capability
Back in 2009, NASA began the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), designed to promote private sector development of human spaceflight. The …
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Space Racers And NASA Aim To Take Over Preschool Entertainment
If you have children you’ve probably been inundated by one program after the other that teaches kids how to count, …
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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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Great Scott! Christopher Lloyd Turns 75: Today In Science & Science Fiction
Christopher Lloyd (October 22, 1938) This is heavy! Christopher Lloyd has had a long and esteemed career over the past …
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