Tag Archives: solar-system

NASA Moonbase Alpha Now Available on Steam [Gaming]

Would you like to travel to the Moon, set up a permanent base, and defend it against mutant zombies mind-controlled by the nazis who escaped Earth using UFOs back in 1945 ? Then, don't play—the free— NASA Moonbase Alpha . More
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Let’s Cover The Moon in Solar Panels [Moon]

Here's an idea so crazy it might work: a solar plant on the Moon. Specifically, a 6,800 mile long solar belt that spans the Moon's equator and sends energy back to Earth with lasers and microwave power. More
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We Could Get to Neptune and Back in 5 Years for a Mere $4 Trillion [Space]

Manned spaceflight is an expensive and impractical proposition. But what if we had all the funds we wanted at our disposal? What could we do? Quite a bit, it turns out. More
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Meet the (Pretend) Cosmonauts (Actually) Living In a Capsule For 500 Days [Space]

Later this year, these two (pretend) cosmonauts, along with four other as-of-yet-unnamed crew members, will embark on an historic, 500 day (pretend) mission to Mars, evaluating man's ability to cope with the taxing journey to the Red Planet. More
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The Deadliest Place In the Solar System Is Beautiful [Space]

This is the deadliest place in the solar system, photographed as never before by NASA's new Solar Dynamics Observatory. It's one of the first humbling, terrifying, and beautiful images returned by the spacecraft. The video is equally impressive in HD: More
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Robot From NASA and G.M. Heading to Space Station

NASA and General Motors have teamed up to send a human-like robot into space to help astronauts on the International Space Station.
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One Shrimp Opens Door to Extraterrestrial Life In the Solar System [Science]

One three-inch shrimp—happily swimming under 600 feet of ice, 12.5 miles from open water—has shattered all scientists' theories on life-harboring environments. An impossible discovery that opens the possibility of complex extraterrestrial life in our Solar System: More
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Pluto Fanboys Hate Mail [Science]

If I were Neil deGrasse Tyson—host of the Pluto Files and director of the Hayden Planetarium—I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. Not after reading the hate mail from thousands of outraged American kids. The kids wrote to de Grasse Tyson demanding an explanation about why scientists changed Pluto's classification from planet into a Kuiper Belt object . The Natural History Museum also retired it from their Solar System model, which logically got a lot of kids reaching for their pellet guns. Neil, they may sound sweet, but they are vicious, those beasts. [ PBS ]
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A Rarely Unobstructed View of a Solar Eclipse [Space]

From the new BBC program Wonders of The Solar System , this clip of a solar eclipse over Varanasi is something you really must watch. The view sure beats staring through a pinhole reflection in a cardboard box. [ BBC ]
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New Chemical Diversity Discovered in Old Meteorite

A new analysis of the Murchison satellite — which fell to Earth in 1969, but hadn't yet been studied with modern tools — finds several million different molecules, showing just how rich the early solar system's matter was.
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