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To protect ourselves from alien extremes, a NASA plan calls for telepresence from orbit.
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Panspermia is a somewhat out there hypothesis. But it deserves a serious investigation, not just quick dismissals citing its origins.
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Our nearest stellar neighbor has a planet. Where do we go from here?
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A new paper argues that nothing ever really falls into a black hole thanks to extreme time dilation and frame dragging.
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A new estimate for the energy required to power a warp drive puts the theoretical technology well within the realm of plausibility.
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Politicians want splashy headlines and photo ops with flag-planting moments and that's enough for them. This is exactly why they shouldn't set scientific missions.
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The idea that halting science and exploration until we fix all the world's ills is extremely popular. It's also extremely ignorant and self-sabotaging.
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One of the most destructive and hardest to defend against weapons we could build would be an inert slug of exotic alloys that does its damage using nothing but speed. A lot of speed.
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All you need to know about how hard it is to land on Mars is that rocket scientists call it "seven minutes of terror."
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Are we looking at a repeat of the Space Race, this time against China?
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Development wonks want entrepreneurs trying to start a new age of space exploration to abandon their effort and throw good money after bad at the developing world.
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Antimatter will need to be the fuel of the future if we want technology like relativistic spaceships and black hole reactors.
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Space entrepreneurs are excited about the promise of asteroid mining. But there are a lot of big, complicated questions they'll have to answer before we know if they can ever make a profit from it.
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If an alien civilization is advanced and powerful enough, could evidence of their existence be written on a galactic scale?
