Life on Mars — a Prospect for the Future?
For all of the scientific and popular interest in past or present life on Mars, what can awaken the greatest public reaction is...
Space
SpaceX Capsule Set to Dock With Space Station
A private U.S. company — SpaceX — has sent the first of 12 resupply missions to the International Space Station. ...
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The Promise of Privatized Space
The power of the free market is finally being brought to bear on the Final Frontier. The new "space race" among private corporations...
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Solar Fireworks Disrupt Europe’s Radio Communications
The solar flares erupting from a giant sunspot group during the first week of July were certainly on a much larger scale than...
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NASA Terminates X-ray Telescope Project Amid Rising Costs
In terminating the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS) project, an X-ray telescope mission that was launched to study black holes and...
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SpaceX Capsule Brings Supplies to Space Station
Hopes for new private initiatives in manned space flight are reaching new heights following SpaceX’s successful launch of its Dragon capsule into low...
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New Company Plans to Mine Space for Wealth
A new company, Planetary Resources, intends to go into outer space and mine minerals and even water from asteroids near our planet. The...
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SpaceX CEO: Mars Tourism May Cost $500,000
In the context of last year’s final flight of NASA’s space shuttle, critics and supporters of the federal agency speculated about the future...
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Predicted Solar Storm Fizzles Out, More Storms Likely
Many were surprised when the prediction by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of potential major disruptions of power grids, Global Positioning...
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John Glenn Marks 50th Anniversary of Historic Spaceflight
It was in the fall of 1962 that President John F. Kennedy set forth his vision of seeing Americans successful land on the...
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Microsoft’s Allen Launches New Space Company
The field of private space ventures is gaining a new competitor, Stratolaunch Systems, the brainchild of former Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen. According to...
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New NASA Probe on its Way to Mars
A flawless launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on November 26 has NASA’s latest mission to Mars safely on its nearly nine-month journey to...
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Russian Mars Probe Remains in Earth Orbit
As NASA prepares for the November 25 launch of America’s next mission to Mars, the recent experience of the joint Russian-Chinese Phobos-Grunt probe...
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NASA: Solar Flares Won’t Destroy Earth
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has taken the somewhat unusual step of declaring that the Earth most certainly will not be...
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Are Comets Actually Responsible for Life on Earth?
A classic example of the blind faith in scientific speculation required by Scientism is on display in a discussion of the role of...
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