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"One of the biggest threats is the extra-fine dust that coats the planet. And the problem is, researchers have never had any sample of the powdery grit to study, so they don't know exactly how it

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"NASA's new Mars lander will travel to the Red Planet's far northern plains to break beneath its surface in the search of conditions favourable to life."

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"Two robots hang suspended in space, nose to nose. One reaches out an arm and attends to the other. Fuel is exchanged, a battery replaced; servicing complete, they silently drift apart. This isn'

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Charlie Stross deflates the dreams of space colonisation. I know he's right on almost all points, but .... ah, damn.

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"Despite the fact that the best estimates put Mars at least 25 years away, a pair of adventurers is seeking to visit the red planet around 2014." I'd love to see it happen. But seriously?

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"I’ll usually yank the map down, away from the mainland, until I start seeing islands. I’ll find an island name I like, and double-click a random point on the island to activate the teleport. And

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"What the researcher is proposing is that a spacecraft can be made to accelerate in a direction perpendicular to a magnetic field." Near-future sf writers, take notes.

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"A patch of Martian soil analyzed by NASA's rover Spirit is so rich in silica that it may provide some of the strongest evidence yet that ancient Mars was much wetter than it is now." 'Wet M

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"The simple truth is that, at any given moment, there’s the population of a small village, at best, wandering around a place the size of eight Manhattans." Warren Ellis on the loneliness of

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"...this drug has the potential of enabling humanity to dwell upon the surfaces of "radiation friendly" worlds." That and most of the rest of space, too - if it works.

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"Mind uploading will make space travel useless. If my mind is running at a million times human speed, then the Moon, Mars, and Proxima Centauri look far more distant than they were previously. It

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"At present, NASA is not permitted to carry advertising: it is a publicly-funded organisation, and selling advertising space is a commercial business. But Congressman Ken Calvert has pledged to [

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"When should the plug be pulled on a critically ill astronaut who is using up precious oxygen and endangering the rest of the crew? Should NASA employ DNA testing to weed out astronauts who might

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"Is this a method for making the kind of lightsail Robert Forward once analyzed as a way of getting payloads and human crews to nearby stars?" I don't know, but I sure hope it is.

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"Magnetic "deflector shields" could one day guard astronauts against dangerous space radiation, if experiments now underway pay off."

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"What Barker has in mind is using ’smart dust’ — tiny computer chips surrounded by a polymer sheath — to form intelligent swarms for research on a planetary surface."

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"The so-called ‘electric sail’ would use fifty to one hundred 20-kilometer long charged tethers, their voltage maintained by a solar-powered electron gun aboard the vehicle."

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"A team of researchers from MIT have created a software tool called SpaceNet that models this interplanetary supply chain." Very cool, and a great tool for near-future space sf.

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"BepiColombo, ESA's mission to explore planet Mercury, has been definitively 'adopted' [...] last Friday. The mission will now start its industrial implementation phase, to prepare for launch in

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"Orbital settlements are huge spacecraft [...]that provide radiation protection, a breathable atmosphere, nearly self-sufficient life support, and that rotate to provide something that feels much

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"When you think about it, so much of science involves putting our instruments into the right place at the right time."

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"So is there an organic-rich mixture below the surface of Enceladus even today? Cassini found hydrocarbon chains in the moon’s plume, which means we can’t rule this scenario out."

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"A 'mechanic' satellite designed to refuel and repair a partner in space is set to launch on Thursday. The feats would be the first of their kind and will lay the groundwork for future autonomous

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"Opportunity found sulphate-rich sediments that some experts claimed were the remains of seas that once washed over the planet." Seems the 'Martian water' switch is set to 'on' this month.

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"These 12-foot (3.65 meter) diameter inflatable units could be used as building blocks for a future lunar base. Right now, a prototype is tested at NASA's Langley Research Center." Er, aster

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"Life on Jupiter's moon Europa is just as feasible as life on Mars and worthy of NASA's attention, scientists have argued." Unfortunately it's a somewhat bigger distance away, too.

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"Ad astra incrementis — you get to the stars one step at a time, and as you go up those steps, you realize that each one has taken you that much farther than the last."

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"NASA and Virgin Galactic announce a ground breaking and exciting agreement between the two parties to collaborate in future manned space technology." Blimey. He's come a long way since the

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