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Alan Stern on Pluto’s Wonders, New Horizons’ Lost Twin, and That Whole "Dwarf Planet" Thing
Sunday, March 29, 2015
You don't have to wonder what is on Alan Stern's mind. The planetary scientist and former NASA associate administrator is a relentless champion of all things Pluto; he is both the principal investigator and the prime mover behind the New Horizons m...
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In Praise of NASA's Ambitious Asteroid Grab
Friday, March 27, 2015
If you pay attention to news about space exploration, you may have seen some skeptical stories about NASA's proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission. (And even if you don't follow such things, you might well have been dismayed by headlines announcing a "...
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Gliding Ant Flies like a Backward Superman
Friday, March 20, 2015
Travel to the Amazon and flick an ant off a leaf, and you might be surprised what you see. Certain rainforest ant species can control their falls and glide back onto the trunks of the trees they came from. Unlike Superman, though, they're only flyi...
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WATCH: The Solar Eruptions That Caused Today's Spectacular St. Patrick's Day Auroras
By Tom Yulsman
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Curtains of hyper-luminous green, white, purple and red light glittered in the skies around the world today as a result of a severe geomagnetic storm caused by two massive explosions on the Sun. These St. Patrick's Day auroral displays started ear...
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MORE ABOUT: SUN, CME, CORONAL MASS EJECTION, SOLAR PHYSICS, SOHO, AURORA BOREALIS, ST. PATRICK'S DAY
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Go With the Flow
Thursday, April 02, 2015
Physicists spur flocking behavior in a lifeless system.
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Rosetta Gets Up Close With a Comet
By Brian Jones
Thursday, April 02, 2015
Photos from the Rosetta mission reveal some interesting features on the surface of Comet 67P.
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Scientists Prepare to Study Samples from Mars
By Brenda Poppy
Thursday, April 02, 2015
Labs don't yet exist, but the technology has come a long way.
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