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NASA’s $1 Billion ‘Leaning’ Launch Tower Likely to Bite the Dust After Just One Use

The Wire Staff 21/02/2018

The mobile launcher for the Space Launch System rocket,...

Illustration of a gamma ray burst in space. Credit: ESO/A. Roquette, CC BY-SA

Simulating the Universe’s Brightest Events in a Lab

Gianluca Sarri 16/01/2018

One idea for the origin of gamma-ray bursts, the...

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Start Mining Asteroids for Faster Data and a Cleaner Planet

Philip Metzger 09/01/2018

An asteroid-mining infrastructure could help to solve a major...

An illustration depicts a hypothetical uneven ring of dust orbiting Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852) released October 4, 2017 by JPL-Caltech and obtained by REUTERS January 3, 2018. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via Reuters

Star’s Oddness Not Due to Alien Mega-Structure, Find Scientists

Will Dunham 04/01/2018

Astronomers said that the most thorough study of Tabby's...

Elon Musk, founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla, congratulates WARR Hyperloop from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, after they won the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition II in Hawthorne, California, U.S., August 27, 2017. Credit: Reuters

Elon Musk Shrinks SpaceX Mars Rocket to Cut Costs

Sonali Paul and Tom Westbrook 29/09/2017

SpaceX plans its first trip to the red planet...

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Kepler Telescope Finds Ten More Possibly Life Supporting Planets

Irene Klotz 20/06/2017

The planets are rocky and 1.75 times the size...

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Dwarf Planetary Systems Will Transform the Hunt for Alien Life

Amaury Triaud and Michaël Gillon 03/05/2017

No matter what we find by studying planets orbiting...