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Space exploration and long term settlements of alien worlds might actually be a recipe for creating new countries with their own cultures, languages, and armed forces.
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Playboy wants an adults-only luxury hotel in space. This is a great idea and not because of the implication.
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Contrary to popular belief, the Apollo program wasn't all that popular when it was underway.
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"Whoops, sorry about colliding with your satellite, it was a complete accident we'll absolutely investigate. We promise..."
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We need to clean up Earth's orbit from more than half a century of working in space. But it's a complicated task, logistically and politically.
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Mars should have some sort of live according to all the evidence we've gathered so far. But do we really know for what we're looking?
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For decades, scientists thought that a habitable world needed a large moon to act like a rudder. That idea might not actually be true.
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We can make our space rovers and probes much smarter than they are today. But we have to get innovative to protect them from alien environments.
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If we want to really explore alien worlds, our drones and probes should lead the way.
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Just like supermassive black holes, planets can bend light with their gravity. But do they bend it enough for us to detect them that way?
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Internet pedants fact checking space battles like to pick on the idea of deploying fighters in space. That seems like a big mistake.
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If we're going to go to Mars and do it right, we should be ready for the price tag.
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A study says that more of Mars than Earth should be hospitable to life. But the data on which this conclusion is based is incomplete.
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How big are some supermassive black holes? Just trying to scale them down to numbers we can wrap our minds around is a challenge in and of itself.
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An Italian mathematician is trying to replace dark matter observation by playing with models of gravitational measurements.