Houston Airport Proposes Concept for Spaceport
The Houston Airport System has unveiled renderings for its latest proposal, an airport for spaceships. The proposed Houston Spaceport features a futuristic terminal, a full university…
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Four Candidate Landing Sites for 2016 Mars Mission Identified by NASA
NASA has narrowed to four the number of potential landing sites for the agency’s next mission to the surface of Mars, a 2016 lander to study…
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Cause of Lunar Twilight Rays Seen by Apollo Astronauts to Be Investigated by LADEE Mission
Back in the 60s and 70s, Apollo astronauts circling the Moon saw something that still puzzles researchers today. About 10 seconds before lunar sunrise or lunar…
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Bizarre Alignment to Our Galaxy Seen in Some Planetary Nebulae
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s New Technology Telescope to explore more than 100 planetary nebulae in the central bulge of our…
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Chris Kraft Wants NASA to Send Humans Out of the Solar System
During a powerful interview with the Houston Chronicle this week, NASA’s first manned spaceflight director Chris Kraft gave his unabashed opinion about the current state of…
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Venus and Moon in Conjunction on Sept. 8
The moon orbits the Earth and the Earth, along with the other planets in the solar system, orbit the sun. Any alignment of the objects in…
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Why Does February Have Only 28 Days?
We inherited our calendar from the Romans (the Greeks and Egyptians had their own, different calendars). [We inherited our base-60 time and measurement systems (minutes, seconds,…
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Major Saturn Storm of 2010 Churned Up Water Ice From Great Depths
A monster storm that erupted on Saturn in late 2010 – as large as any storm ever observed on the ringed planet — has already impressed…
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What’s Your Mood Today? It Can Be Affected by What You Eat!
There’s no doubt that there’s a problem with the Western diet. It’s high in processed food, sugar and salt. That’s led to a prevalence of obesity…
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Hubble Images a Huge, Light-Year-Long Flaming Space Monster
This video begins with a view of the stars in the constellation Cygnus, zooms into the Cygnus OB2 association region, and then into a Hubble view…
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