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NASA Reveals Three Potential Habitats You Could Live In On Mars
If we, as the collective human race, are ever going to get to Mars, there are some massive challenges that …
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The UK Will Have Its Own Spaceport By 2018
Being a relatively small island isn’t going to stop the UK from building its own spaceport, especially now that space …
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Microwave Propulsion Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Space Travel
“Game changer” has become an overused buzz term. Every innovation or advancement is either a definite game changer, or at …
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Photo Of Europa Shows Off Bands Of Blood-Red Ice
Looking at this picture, what do you see? It resembles human muscle with the skin peeled off, or a close …
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NASA Confirms That Voyager 1 Is Soaring Through Interstellar Space
Let’s see what’s out there.
Today In 1633 Galileo Was Deemed A Heretic
Copernicus wasn’t the first person to theorize that the Earth revolved around the sun, but he was the first person …
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The House Seems To Be Supporting Manned Flight To Mars
Perhaps the recent National Research Council report lambasting NASA’s plan to get humans to Mars was the wake-up call the …
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First Vine From Space Shows Endless Sun
We’ve got plenty of images and video from space, but now we’ve got the first Vine of the cosmos, courtesy …
A Galactic Particle Collider And An Image Of 10,000 Galaxies
I just got back from a local art fair, so it occurs to me that the Hubble is kind of …
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Researchers Find Evidence Of The Planet That Crashed Into Earth To Form The Moon
Back in the 1970s, scientists first hypothesized that the moon was formed when another planet, now called Theia, collided with …
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Massive Mega-Earth Baffles Scientists
I imagine that scientists spend a lot of time scratching their heads, stymied by some mystery or unexplained phenomenon. Of …
SpaceX Will Unveil The Dragon V2 Spacecraft Tonight
What are you doing tonight at 10:00 PM EST? For most of us science and tech geeks, that’s a rhetorical …
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Mousetronauts Headed To The ISS
Soon there won’t be any cosmonauts on the ISS, but new residents will soon arrive, and while they might not …
Algorithms Help Hide Public Eyesores
Eyesores are a necessary evil in public spaces. Even beautifully landscaped parks require trashcans, port-o-potties, and electrical boxes. While no …
Japanese Beverage Company To Advertise On The Moon
One small step for man, one giant leap for advertising. In October of 2015, Japanese company Otsuka will send a …
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Russia Bailing On The ISS
Six weeks after NASA announced that it would be cutting ties with Russia, except for their collaboration on the ISS, …
Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity Cover Is About To Vanish From YouTube
If you’re a regular reader of GFR, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve got a serious nerd crush on Canadian …
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Japan Plans To Harness Solar Power—From Space
Most people acknowledge that we need to find alternate sources of energy, given that peak oil is imminent and the …
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Black Hole At The Milky Way’s Center Will Soon Devour A Gas Cloud
For something that doesn’t exist — at least, not the way Stephen Hawking originally postulated — black holes certainly are …
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Outer Space Humor From Before Mankind Landed On The Moon
We have often opined, here at GFR, that merging science fiction and comedy is a tricky proposition, at best. When …
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Soviet Space Stamps And Postcards Might Convince Me To Actually Write A Letter
I never really got the appeal of collecting stamps. I’m not saying the hobby doesn’t have an appeal, mind you, …
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NASA Builds Inflatable Saucers And Giant Parachutes For Mars Landings
The Opportunity and Curiosity rovers are triumphs for NASA, but why should the space agency rest on its laurels? Even …
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Crowdfunding Mission Seeks To Resurrect ISEE-3 Space Probe
A long time ago (1978) in a galaxy…well, pretty close to us, NASA launched the ISEE-3 (International Sun/Earth Explorer 3) …
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The U.S. Has A Space Plane That Has Been In Orbit Since 2012
I don’t know about every craft the U.S. sends into orbit, nor am I familiar with all of the missions, …
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DARPA’s Huge Folding Telescope
DARPA’s doing more than working on robots and super soldiers. It’s also developing the biggest space telescope in history, with …
Google Buys Dronemaker Titan Aerospace In Bid To Provide Internet To Everyone
If you go to the Titan Aerospace website, instead of seeing information about the drones it makes, you simply find …
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Pluto May Have A Subsurface Ocean, Saturn May Be Forming A New Moon
Some of you might have woken up on April 1 to find that Pluto had been reinstated as a planet. …
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Al Gore’s Daughter Is Making An HBO Astronaut Comedy
It seems astronauts are all the rage these days. Sandra Bullock earned an Oscar nom and conquered the box office …
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Spacecraft 2000-2100 AD Videos Bring Classic ‘70s Sci-Fi Art To Life
From the time I first learned to read, all the way through to my eventually moving out for college, my …
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At The Edge Of The Galaxy New Stars Are Being Born
There’s some cool stuff happening in space. That’s true in a general sense, but scientists have recently discovered our best …
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