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World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.
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Breaking news shocked Villanova’s campus last Saturday, March 15. Everyone remembers exactly where they were when they received the email. It was one of those moments in life that you will always ...
Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...
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The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have nearly half a century of combined experience as astronauts. But this is just their third ...
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Saturn was already the reigning champion in the moon department. Now, with 274, Saturn has more moons than all the other ...