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Future Leaders winner is a young Coloradan searching for the secrets of the universe
The Future Leaders Award comes with $1,000 and a profile on CBS News Colorado.Julia Gao is the latest Future Leaders winner.
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This waltz is the unofficial soundtrack of floating through space. Soon it will beam through the cosmos
NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles’ “Across the ...
Martian probe rolls over to see subsurface ice and rock
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), launched by NASA in 2005, is orbiting Mars tasked with studying its atmosphere, ...
The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong
A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...
Testing a robot that could drill into Europa and Enceladus
To make these lander missions happen, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory team has been working on a robot that could handle the ...
Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them
Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians ...
From infinite past to future: Simulation tracks complete journey of gravitational wave through black hole spacetime
In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers have successfully followed a gravitational wave's complete journey from ...
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Why Do We Launch Space Telescopes?
NASA and the European Space Agency launched an astronomical revolution. When the Space Shuttle Discovery roared into the sky ...