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One Man’s Lifelong Pursuit of Pluto is About to Get Real
When the New Horizons spacecraft races by the quasi-planetary body, Alan Stern will have finally met his match
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Made by College Seniors, These Seven Products Give Us a Glimpse Into the Future
Engineering students at universities across the country took these projects from sketch to reality in one year
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SpaceX’s Capsule Has an Emergency Eject System
The spaceflight company hits another milestone in tests of its Dragon 2 and Falcon 9 systems
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A Trip to Mars Could Give You Brain Damage
Exposure to cosmic rays may cause defects that would make astronauts lose their curiosity during a mission
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Today The Messenger Spacecraft Will Crash Into Mercury
After years of exciting observations and stunning pictures of Mercury, the spacecraft has run out of fuel
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To Get Rid of Space Junk, Shoot It Down With Lasers
Proposals to send debris-targeting craft into orbit are piling up, and one mission may soon start test firing from the space station
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Japan Plans a Trip to the Moon by 2018
The lander will use information from Japan’s moon-orbiting satellite to stick the landing
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How to give the International Space Station a little bit more room
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Behind the Scenes of the Last Mission to Repair the Hubble Space Telescope
Photographer Michael Soluri shares an intimate look at the team that saved the iconic observatory
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Lifeless Venus Could Hold the Key to Life on Earth
Earth’s sister planet is astonishingly hostile to life, but exactly how it got that way has researchers intrigued
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Meet the First Donut That Went to Space
A pair of Swedish brothers launched a tasty pastry into the stratosphere—and filmed the entire ride
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The Messenger Probe Will Soon Crash Into Mercury
As NASA’s probe runs out of propellant, it will crash into the planet’s surface at 8,750 MPH
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Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out If Humans Can Hibernate
Studies of hibernators and experiments inducing short-term torpor in humans may answer whether human hibernation is possible
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Rover May Have Found a Water Source for Humans on Mars
Data collected from the Curiosity rover suggests liquid water could be harvested from Martian soil
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Could NASA Stop on the Moon on the Way to Mars?
NASA’s chief of human exploration thinks we’ll need a pit stop en route to the fiery planet
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Why the ESA’s Astronauts Train Underground
The European Space Agency is applying protocols from the International Space Station in caves
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Houston, We Might Have Some Major Problems Making Babies in Space
From risky pregnancies to birth defects to problems with inbreeding, it just seems like a bad idea
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A Rocket Blessing and a Cubist Planet Are Among These Celestial Sights
Russia sends off the one-year crew and a Saturn probe gets artistic in our picks for this week’s best space-related pictures
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An Asteroid Boulder Will Be A Stepping Stone on the Journey to Mars
NASA announces details in its plan to capture an asteroid and bring it into lunar orbit
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