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The Search for Aliens Gets Harder—But More Encouraging
11.16.2009 Saturn's surprising moons have broadened scientists' ideas about where extraterrestrial life might be found.
by Andrew Grant
A Yardstick for the Universe
The Hubble Space Telescope is helping to improve our understanding of the expansion of space, dark energy, and the fate of the cosmos. 11.10.2009
Will Our Universe Collide With a Neighboring One?
Our universe may be one of a multitude—and it may bear the scars of past run-ins with its neighbors. 11.04.2009
Visual Science: Polishing a Cosmic Spyglass
A tune-up for one of the most sophisticated imaging devices ever made 11.02.2009
Visual Science: NASA Unveils Its New Rocket
The potential successor to the space shuttle gets ready to fly. 10.20.2009
The NASA School of Art
For 50 years, artists have had up-close, insider access to the space program. Here are the results. 10.16.2009
StarTalk: What's Funny About Space?
09.21.2009
Slicing Open the Moody Sun
Our star may seem like a model of constancy, but its surface is violently active, rocked by explosions and sun quakes. 09.15.2009
StarTalk: Time Travel
09.14.2009
StarTalk: Space Spin-Offs
09.07.2009
Is Jupiter's Bizarre Moon Our Best Hope for Finding Extraterrestrial Life?
NASA is gambling $4 billion that there's life beneath the thin atmosphere, lethal radiation, and miles-thick ice on Europa. 08.28.2009
Life on Europa?
NASA is betting $4 billion that there's life in strange, frigid oceans on Jupiter's mysterious moon. 08.27.2009
Clashes With Aliens, America vs. Science, and Really Horrible Sci-Fi: The Best in Science Culture
08.16.2009
11 Great Astro Pics: Winners of the Celestron Photo Contest
Gazing up at the night sky is a reward unto itself: the splendor of the Universe awaits! But when you use a telescope and a camera, you can capture that beauty in ways that even our sophisticated eyes cannot detect. 08.12.2009
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Eclipses
07.30.2009
Anatomy of a Lunar Landing
The Apollo program reached the moon 40 years ago today. Here's a look at some of the many technical breakthroughs of that mission. 07.20.2009
10 Great Views—and Memories—From the Moon
Forty years after the first moon landing, the 24 men who've been there open up about the details of their photos and experiences. 07.02.2009
Capturing the Stars: Best Astrophotography of the Last 35 Years
06.29.2009
Staring at the Sun, Just as Galileo Did
Astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory sketch sunspots every day, continuing a tradition started by Galileo. 05.27.2009
Building the World's Wimpiest Space Thruster—Harder Than It Sounds
The ESA's new system is designed to counter the force of sunlight on a spacecraft—about the same as the force of gravity on a single human hair. 05.24.2009
Russia's Dark Horse Plan to Get to Mars
The Fobos-Grunt mission might pave the way for humanity's first permanent space base—on Phobos, Mars' bizarre moon. 05.21.2009
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