Space articles

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  Death of a hero: the best coverage of Neil Armstrong's life

  By Louis Goddard on August 28, 2012 06:48 am + 7 comments

  Legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong's death on Saturday provoked a storm of obituaries and Continue reading…

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  NASA set to launch cheap Android-based satellites with Nexus hardware later this year

  By Chris Welch on August 26, 2012 11:34 pm + 94 comments

  Faced with a shrinking budget, NASA will in many ways need to reinvent itself if the agency hopes to Continue reading…

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  Microflow, a toaster-sized disease detector, will get its first test run in space

  By Kimber Streams on August 26, 2012 06:21 pm + 10 comments

  The Canadian Space Agency has announced the development of Microflow, a toaster-sized flow cytometer Continue reading…

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  Astronaut Neil Armstrong, 1930-2012

  on August 25, 2012 05:05 pm + 3 comments

  Highlights from astronaut Neil Armstrong's legendary career. Photos courtesy of NASA. Continue reading…

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  Astronaut Neil Armstrong has died

  By T.C. Sottek on August 25, 2012 03:14 pm + 146 comments

  Legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong has died at age 82. As the spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, Continue reading…

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  Curiosity wiggles its wheels on Mars, creates interplanetary GIF magic

  By Dante D'Orazio on August 21, 2012 01:46 pm + 77 comments

  For a $2.5 billion science project, NASA's Curiosity rover (and its team) have put quite a bit of Continue reading…

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  Watch Curiosity's Mars landing again, this time in high-resolution

  By Andrew Webster on August 20, 2012 09:07 am + 18 comments

  We've already seen NASA's Curiosity rover make its dramatic descent to the surface of Mars, but the Continue reading…

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  Nuclear-powered Mars rover fires first laser

  By Louis Goddard on August 20, 2012 04:14 am + 55 comments

  NASA's Curiosity rover, which touched down on the surface of Mars two weeks ago, has made the first Continue reading…

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  10 billion years in 78 seconds: scientists use supercomputer to model universe

  By Louis Goddard on August 17, 2012 10:17 am + 20 comments

  Forget SimCity — scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Continue reading…

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  Play this: pilot your own Mars rover in 'Tempest'

  By Kimber Streams on August 16, 2012 01:30 pm + 7 comments

  The Chaos Collective has developed a brand new in-browser game that lets you experience what it's Continue reading…