Mar 23 2011
What Would an Interstellar Spaceship Look Like?
Guest contributor Kelvin Long describes the design considerations for the Icarus starship. Part 2 of 2.
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Mar 22 2011
William Shatner, the Original Star Trekker, Turns 80
Captain Kirk is now an octogenarian.
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Mar 10 2011
Space Music: Gary Numan, Asperger Syndrome and Roswell Return
Several bits of cool space music entered the atmosphere this week. So pop on those headphones, slide into your favorite void suit and prepare to drift off into the wild black yonder.
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Dec 02 2010
Leslie Nielsen’s Bold Trek to a Forbidden World
Long before Star Trek’s captain Kirk there was Commander J.J. Adams of United Planet cruiser C57D who dared to visit the Forbidden Planet.
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Nov 29 2010
Cosmic Rebirth Encoded in Background Radiation?
A pattern discovered in the cosmic microwave background radiation may chronicle what happened before the Big Bang.
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Nov 15 2010
Life on Earth Spawned by Dead Alien Microbes?
Did life on Earth come from extraterrestrial microbes hopping from one star system to the next? If so, they might have arrived dead, only to be resurrected.
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Nov 04 2010
Novel Material Gives Nod to ‘Invisibility Cloak’
Light flows around the object instead of being absorbed by it.
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Oct 22 2010
Is Warp Speed Possible?
Warp speed sure makes space travel handy in science fiction, but is such a scientific feat even possible from a physics standpoint?
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Oct 21 2010
The Rare Exoplanet with a Double Sunset
A new exoplanet discovery questions the leading planetary formation theory.
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Oct 14 2010
Let’s Build an Interplanetary Space Station
Rather than simply visiting a co-orbital asteroid and bringing back rock samples, the mission could fulfill an ultimate goal of space colonization.
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