Asteroid miners need a short-term financial plan that will keep them in business until they can get rich extracting resources from space-rocks. The post
How to Succeed in the Asteroid Business Without Really Mining appeared first on
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The 30 Doradus nebula is forming stars in a flat-out sprint, outpacing the local Milky Way by four orders of magnitude. Bring sunblock
Right now, people care about launches and landings. In many ways, if SpaceX does everything right for long enough, very few people will care. The post
Watch as SpaceX Fires (and Hopefully Lands) Another Rocket appeared first on
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Space photos of the week, August 7–13, 2016. The post
Space Photos of the Week: Don’t Tell This Irregular Galaxy What to Do appeared first on
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This year's abnormally heavy shower is all thanks to the outsized gravitational pull of the gas giant Jupiter. The post
The Perseid Meteor Shower Will Really Outdo Itself Tonight appeared first on
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A new dimming signal makes the famous star even more challenging to explain, but astronomers aren’t claiming that it’s aliens… yet
Inside NASA's Office of Planetary Protection, where they don't worry about what Martians could do to us, but what our extremophiles could do to them. The post
Why We Shouldn't Go to Mars: We Might Decimate the Martians appeared first on
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Space photos of the week, July 31—August 6, 2016. The post
Space Photos of the Week: This Globular Cluster's Over the Hill appeared first on
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Moon Express announced it has gotten permission to be the first private company to land on the moon. The post
The US Wants Space Business to Stay Laissez-Faire appeared first on
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Space photos of the week, July 24—30, 2016. The post
Space Photos of the Week: This Starburst Galaxy's a Real Gas Bag appeared first on
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