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We just lost another critical climate satellite
These NASA satellites are some of our best tools for understanding climate change, and there's no plan to replace them.
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Climate change is showing up in blockbusters and binge watches. So what?
The environment is going mainstream. Just don't expect to see it in a starring role.
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Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson and Stephen Colbert fight about planets
What's with all the Pluto hullabaloo? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Stephen Colbert to clear up some planetary questions.
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Just like you, NASA wants to send your kids to Mars — but for different reasons
Watch the Human to Mars summit livestream this week, and see how NASA plans to get our asses to Mars.
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Hubble just turned 25. Here’s what it was like to grow up with it.
The Hubble Space Telescope shows us the far reaches of our universe -- and that tells us a lot about us, too.
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“Interstellar” solves climate change by incoherently jetting into space
The new Christopher Nolan film starts on a human-ravaged Earth and ends in a black hole. Where does that leave us?
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Air Force pilots can now suck key lime pie and truffled macaroni out of tubes
According to the the pilots and the tube food developers, the mush inside the tubes is "the very height of culinary achievement." Except, at one point, the peach melba, which in early stages of development "had a 'dirty sock kind of taste.'"
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You can see North Dakota’s oil fracking fields from space
What a handy signal to alien races that they should have nothing to do with us.
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There’s another habitable planet out there, just waiting for us to come and screw it up
It's not even in galaxy, far, far, away. It's orbiting Tau Ceti, a star that's a mere 12 light years from us