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Scientific American September 2008 David Appell |
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Scientific American January 2009 Charles Q. Choi |
Does Dark Matter Encircle Earth? Dark matter might exert measurable effects on the earth, moon and gas giants |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
NASA's New Spacecraft Will Touch The Sun Scientists at NASA and Johns Hopkins University are working on a space probe that will literally touch the surface of the sun. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Mason Peck |
Exploring Space with Chip-sized Satellites The future of space exploration will include swarms of tiny spacecraft. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Gregory L. Matloff |
Deflecting Asteroids A solar sail could use light to nudge an earthbound rock into an orbit we could live with |
Scientific American July 2005 Mark Alpert |
Feeling the Pinch Voyager 1, now speeding out of the solar system after 28 years in space, is one of the NASA missions facing budget cuts, even though the craft is reporting remarkable discoveries. |
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2013 Jean Kumagai |
Protecting the Power Grid From Solar Storms New spacecraft will aid forecasts of space weather. |
Popular Mechanics March 2010 Mark Wolverton |
New Space Engines May Trade Fuel For Photons Interplanetary travel may soon be powered by propulsion systems lifted from sci-fi novels, as researchers reach for faster, lighter space engines. |
Popular Mechanics November 19, 2009 Stephen Ornes |
This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System: Gallery What has changed in solar system imagery over the past few decades and what we can learn from it |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 |
Scientists Are Finding Life In Earth's Coldest, Hottest, Weirdest Places By creating an alternative life chemistry in the lab, astrobiologist Steven Benner hopes to uncover a formula for alien microbes. How five big questions about life on our planet are shaping the search for it on other worlds. |
Chemistry World July 27, 2015 Katrina Kramer |
A space traveller's guide to the solar system Mark Thompson will take you on a holiday around our solar system in his new book, A space traveler's guide to the solar system -- a journey that promises to be both terrifying and awe-inspiring. |
Wired August 2001 |
Verge An electrodynamic tether may have potential as a low-cost means of propelling spacecraft within Earth's orbit... |
AskMen.com |
NASA Studying The Sun The most advanced solar observatory ever built rocketed into space Thursday on a five-year quest to shed light on Earth's star. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 James Oberg |
Internal NASA Documents Give Clues to Scary Soyuz Return Flight Engineers are attempting to reconstruct the 19 April Soyuz descent from the ISS. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Stephen Cass |
App Watch: The Final Frontier -- on Your Phone NASA brings its missions to the smallest screen |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Guterl & Heger |
Mars Is Hard Fifty years ago, space experts thought we'd be there by now. Here's why we're not |
TIME Asia June 28, 2010 Christopher Shay |
The Moment The Japanese space program confirmed on June 10 it had unfurled the first interplanetary solar sail, powering its spacecraft IKAROS. |