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There’s probably nothing much more exciting for a space artist than to have an entirely new world to play with! I’ve…
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The history of the modern exploration of the solar system has been a catalog of surprises. No matter what…
3/01/15 7:00PM
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As much as we love The Muppets, in 1963 a pair of NASA engineers entertained the idea of sending real pigs into…
2/08/15 7:00PM
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NASA's 2016 budget was approved by President Obama last week, and it contained some exciting goals: "A robust…
12/21/14 1:00PM
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These parlor tricks were published by Hugo Gernsback back in the 1920s, but they've been around forever.
10/26/14 11:00AM
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In the heyday of America's love affair with space travel, there were few products that weren't tied in somehow to…
10/18/14 5:00PM
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The prospect of future tourists gawking at the ice fountains of Enceladus, the volcanoes of Io and the grand canyons…
10/02/14 10:00PM
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A report from the Jet Propulsion laboratory today reveals that in May 2012, while Titan's southern hemisphere was…
9/28/14 11:00AM
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Once upon a time it was quite popular to depict the human body in terms of machinery. The idea was that all of the…
9/20/14 2:00PM
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In 1951 Collier's magazine devoted an entire issue to reporting an imagined version of World War III. The magazine…
9/14/14 6:30PM
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People like to make lists of things, especially lists of superlatives: the best, fastest, oldest, largest, heaviest…
8/31/14 11:30AM
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Caught up in the let's-attach-a-rocket-to-everything-and-see-what-happens fad in Germany in the late 1920s, one…
8/30/14 4:00PM
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In a study published in the latest issue of Science, astronomers led by graduate student Huan Meng, of the…
7/23/14 7:30PM
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Most histories of that wonderful subgenre of science fiction called "steampunk" list Ronald Clark's 1967 novel,Queen…
7/20/14 2:00PM
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It’s a surprise to many to learn that Andy Griffith was not only the beloved, homespun sheriff of Mayberry, he was…
7/12/14 12:30PM
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The American Civil War was probably the first truly modern war in that technology was so important. The military use…
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If you are sick of all those safely precautions required to set off fireworks these days, then maybe you'd have…
6/20/14 7:04PM
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One of the results of Earth having a tilted axis is, for better or worse, the seasons. On June 21st, we'll be at one…
6/15/14 11:30AM
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When the Dawn spacecraft finally reaches Ceres early next year, it may find a world much stranger than expected.