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Mars Could Harbor Microbial Life Even Now
The recent news of microbes being present in at least one lake beneath Antarctica has reaffirmed many suspicions that some …
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Smallest Exoplanet Yet Discovered With Kepler Telescope
Until we get electronic eyes deep in space, humans are left to do our deepest explorations of the galaxy from …
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Americans Overly Optimistic About NASA Putting Humans On Mars
There’s a thin line between optimism and flat-out lunacy. Optimism is when you look at a glass half-filled with water …
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NASA Launching World’s Largest Solar Sail In 2014
It’s been many years since gas prices were at a level that was actually fitting for the product’s worth. But …
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Super Bowl Ads Celebrate Space Shuttles And Astronauts
With ad space going for millions of dollars, the Super Bowl ads get nearly as much attention — maybe more …
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NASA Planning Rover System For Creating Rocket Fuel On The Moon
Until we start breaking the laws of relativity at a fair clip, the future of space travel relies on some …
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Mars Photographed At Night For The First Time
As kitschy as black lights are, they’re responsible for quite a few amusing memories from my teenage years, even if …
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Infographic Shows How Far We’ve Traveled On Celestial Bodies
Luckily, my commute to work is only 12 minutes, with a six-mile travel distance. But until my wife and I …
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NASA Beams The Mona Lisa Into Space By Laser, Possibly Synced To A Pink Floyd Album
Remember that guy Leonardo Da Vinci, that old Italian hack that painted religious people and sorta came up with helicopters …
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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What’s Better Than Nachos? Nachos In Space.
In my opinion, you can improve pretty much any concept by adding “in space” to the end of it. Birthdays…in …
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NASA’s Next Plan For A Space Station Could Involve Pulling An Asteroid Into Lunar Orbit
$2.6 billion can buy you a lot of things. 2.6 billion lottery tickets. 2,600 copies of Action Comics #1, if …
Leonard Nimoy Is Our Guide In This Short Film About NASA’s Dawn Asteroid Mission
We here at GFR are automatically predisposed to be fascinated by any new foray into space exploration…that’s kind of our …
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NASA Astronaut Takes You On A Guided Tour Of The ISS
I want to go to there.
Deep Space Travel May Hasten Alzheimer’s Disease
With as much as there is to do on this planet, one might think it would be enough to satisfy …
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Listen To What The International Space Station Sounds Like
Sometimes when I make a point to notice how quiet it is around me, I’ll find that it isn’t quiet …
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NASA’s New Mars Rovers Look Like Medieval Weapons
NASA goes medieval! Over the past few years, NASA has made their rovers to look friendly and acceptable to human …
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Walt Disney Among Nine Artists Immortalized In Craters Named for Them
For the past ninety years, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has been naming all of the celestial bodies found in …
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NASA’s New Spacesuit Prototype Will Take You To Infinity And Beyond
There’s been an ongoing back-and-forth conversation between real-life science and science fiction for decades. Star Trek gave us communicators, and …
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NASA Releases Why the World Didn’t End Yesterday Video
It was a good run while it lasted. According to some conspiracy theorists, the world will come to an end …
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Mysterious Gullies On Asteroid Vesta May Have Been Formed By Fluids
When I was a kid, a gully was something behind someone’s house that filled up with water when it rained, …
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Gorgeous New HD Earth at Night Images Brighten Up Your Life
The phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words” is sometimes applicable, while other times, a broad overstatement. A sailboat …
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NASA Stalwart Rover Opportunity Has Completed Matijevic Hill Observations
I can’t tell you how many things I’ve owned that didn’t last nine years without malfunctioning in at least one …
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James Cameron, Mars, And Climate Change Form The Bulk Of AGU’s 2012 Conference
Pop culture fanatics have Comic-Con and SXSW. Geo-scientists have the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The conference, …
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NASA’s MESSENGER Probe Discovers Ice On Mercury’s Poles
For most of us amateur science followers, Mercury is probably the very last place we would think to look for …
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NASA Teases Major Mars Announcement
One of the main mission goals of NASA’s Curiosity rover is to search for evidence of life on Mars — …
NASA May Soon Announce More Manned Missions To The Moon
To the moon, Alice!
Re-Enter The Dragon: SpaceX’s Craft Returns From ISS Supply Run
When you have more money than some small governments, you can make amazing things happen. Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, has …
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Space Shuttle Endeavor’s Beautiful Time-Lapsed Final Voyage
And you think traffic is bad where you live. Consider having to drive behind the retired Space Shuttle Endeavor as …
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NASA Unveils New Plan To Send Astronauts Beyond The Moon, But Will The White House Bite?
When NASA lays out a plan for human spaceflight, it usually revolves around a presidential mandate that outlines the course …
