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Which Animal is the Smartest, How Did Fingernails Evolve and More Questions From Our Readers
You asked, we answered
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This Satellite Just Returned From Circling the Sun, But NASA’s Lost the Ability to Talk to It
The style of transmitters that would let NASA talk to the spacecraft were taken out of commission
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Mars Got Hit By a Meteorite, And Now There’s a Picture
Follow up with NASA’s high-resolution HiRISE camera captured this dramatic impact crater
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China’s Lunar Rover Just Melodramatically Announced Its Impending Demise
A mechanical failure could mean the end of China’s Jade Rabbit
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An Oasis in the Void: Dwarf Planet Ceres Is Venting Water
Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter
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International Space Station to Get a Four Year Life Extension
Then, in 2024, it has to crash into the ocean
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Astronomers Find What May Be a Star Within a Star
The best candidate yet for an elusive Thorne-Żytkow Object
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This App Tells You When Satellites Are Watching You
For the paranoid among us, an app that says when you may be being watched
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How Did Mars Become the Red Planet?
A new NASA spacecraft, MAVEN, will explore the geologic history of our planetary neighbor
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Curiosity, NASA’s Most Advanced Rover Yet, Is About to Land on Mars
The mobile laboratory will learn about the red planet’s climate and geology, hoping to determine whether it once could have supported life
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Fifty Years Ago Today, the First Communications Satellite Was Launched Into Space
On this date in 1962, Telstar was launched, ushering in a new era of communications technology
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Top Ten Mysteries of the Universe
What are those burning questions about the cosmos that still baffle astronomers today?
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Timothy Ferris on Voyagers’ Never-Ending Journey
With the spacecraft poised to leave our solar system, the writer who helped compile the time capsules they carry reflects on our foray into outer space
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Voyager Probes Not Out of the Solar System Just Yet
New data show that nearly 35 years after their launches, NASA’s Voyager probes are now at the outermost reaches of the solar system
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What Is on Voyager’s Golden Record?
From a whale song to a kiss, the time capsule sent into space in 1977 had some interesting contents
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Space Garbage: The Dark Cloud Above
A mass of debris from satellites and space missions is orbiting our planet—and it may be growing all the time
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A Holiday Angel Among the Stars
The star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 bears a certain resemblance, particularly during this time of year
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Scientists predicted that Comet Lovejoy would collide with the Sun
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The Latest Destination for Human Spaceflight
The latest proposed destination for human space missions illustrates the essential hollowness of the current direction of our civil space program
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