"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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"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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"...a little over two years after perhaps the biggest asteroid scare of all time, no planetary defense plan is in place nor an indication of who would put one into effect."

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"Given how tricky it is to pick up accidental radio signals — “leakage” — from extraterrestrial civilizations, how hard would it be to communicate with our own probes once they’ve reached a syste

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"It also uses a good deal less power, but here’s the real kicker: The new system shrinks the required hardware on a planetary mission from the size of a crate down to a chip no bigger than your t

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"Simply fill out the form below and your name will be included on the Phoenix DVD along with [...] a collection of Mars literature and art, and personal messages to the future by space visionarie

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"Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has called for better use of the 'space resource' to battle Earth's climate crisis, enlisting entrepreneurial muscle to help solve global issues that threaten

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"When the day comes that we have spectroscopic data from exoplanets as small as Earth, we’ll be able to study the signatures of the gases there to learn something about conditions on the surface.

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You think you get some weird stuff in your inbox? Bruce Sterling can top it.

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Two exoplanet-sized objects in a binary pair, with no parent star. How did they form? We're not entirely sure.

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Does what it says on the tin.

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No, it's not an article advocating getting smacked up for relaxation - it's advocating launching sulphur particles into the stratosphere to reflect more sunlight from the Earth. Which is marginally le

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One area where this planetary system really excels is in the area of symbolism and visualization. Each of the planets, and the corresponding Godforms ...

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