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Astronauts Going to Mars Will Absorb Crazy Amounts of Radiation. Now We Know How Much.
September 21, 2018 | ArticleThere are plenty of challenges to putting people on Mars, whether you look at the rocket, the astronaut or the planet itself.
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Child-Porn Investigation Caused New Mexico Observatory Closure: Report
September 20, 2018 | ArticleAn FBI investigation into child pornography caused the peculiar closure of a New Mexico solar observatory earlier this month, according to the news agency Reuters.
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Hey, Spock! Real-Life 'Planet Vulcan' Discovered
September 19, 2018 | Article"Star Trek's" planet Vulcan, ancestral home of Spock and his species, just became a little more real, thanks to a team of exoplanet scientists.
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Why the SpaceX Lunar Tourists Won't Walk on the Moon
September 19, 2018 | ArticleTwelve people have walked on the moon, and Elon Musk won't add any Japanese billionaires to that number anytime soon.
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Weird Infrared Signal Emanates Across Space, But What Created It?
September 18, 2018 | ArticleThe signal extends over a huge swath of space, an area that's 2.5 times bigger than the orbit of Pluto.
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Japanese Billionaire Will Be First Lunar Tourist. And He Plans to Invite Artists.
September 17, 2018 | ArticleYusaku Maezawa, founder of clothing company ZoZo, will be the first space tourist to travel around the moon, private spaceflight company SpaceX announced tonight (Sept. 17).
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The BFR in Images: SpaceX's Giant Spaceship for Mars Colony & Beyond
September 17, 2018 | Image AlbumOn Sept. 29, 2017, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company’s latest Mars-colonization architecture, which centers on a rocket-spaceship combo dubbed the BFR (Big F***ing Rocket). See how it works in images.
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Asteroid Hides Behind Sparkling Spiral Galaxy in This Dazzling Telescope View
September 17, 2018 | ArticleThe European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile has a busy observation schedule, but sometimes cloudy or moonlit skies mean a temporary halt to scientific measurements. Then, it grabs images like this.
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Elon Musk Is Blasting Someone to the Moon, and We Have Questions
September 14, 2018 | ArticleElon Musk's lunar flyby is one giant leap for space tourism.
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Unexplained 'Security Issue' Keeps National Solar Observatory Facility Shuttered
September 14, 2018 | ArticleIt's been more than a week, and a National Solar Observatory (NSO) facility in New Mexico is still closed for an undisclosed "security issue."
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