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NASA’s Kepler Telescope May Have Limited Future After Equipment Failure
(LOS ANGELES) — NASA's planet-hunting telescope is broken. The Kepler spacecraft lost the second of four wheels that control the telescope's orientation in...
Trouble in Deep Space: Wheel Malfunction Threatens Kepler Telescope’s Future
And if the telescope can’t stay on target, the mission is effectively over.
Q&A: Simon Pegg on Star Trek Into Darkness, Life on Other Planets and Ugly Shirts of the Future
The actor who plays Scotty talks to TIME about his latest roles
Why Warming Oceans Could Mean Dwindling Fish
Scientists knew that climate change would eventually impact fisheries, but new research indicates that warming water is already affecting the kind of fish that...
Earth’s Great Gift to the Moon: Water
Tiny samples from Apollo moon rocks help solve an ancient myatery
Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
Mars on Earth: A Look at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah
At the Mars Desert Research Station outside Hanksville, Utah, a group of scientists are taking advantage of Mars-like terrain to investigate the possibility of...
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Gollum’s Getup: How The Hobbit‘s Groundbreaking Technology Works
At a pivotal point in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, our hero encounters Gollum, the haggard creature moviegoers will recognize from the director’s The Lord of the...
Rio Climate Summit: Top 10 Priorities for a Planet in Peril
The ongoing global financial crisis may be distracting world leaders, but that doesn't make the environmental issues up for discussion at the U.N.'s annual...
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Swiss Cheese and Dust Devils: 7 High- Resolution Shots of Surface Activity on Mars...
The arrival of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) at the Red Planet in 2006 ushered in a whole new era of Mars observation. With its ultrapowerful HiRISE camera, the...
Dot Earth Blog: The Adirondack Park and Conservation on a Crowding Planet
A populated park as a model for Earth in the Anthropocene. ...
Mars Rover Breaks U. S. Record for Off- Planet Driving
NASA's long-lived Opportunity Mars rover is the new American champion of off-planet driving, breaking a distance record set more than 40 years ago by an Apollo moon buggy. [...
Citizen Scientists Track Light Pollution as Humanity Loses Touch with the Night Sky
If, on the other hand, you live in a teeming metropolis, what's visible might have much more to do with where you find yourself on the planet than where we find ourselves in...
