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http://motherboard.vice.com, by BECKY FERREIRA

It's been a big week for Mars news. On Monday, the first trailer for the upcoming Ridley Scott movie The Martian was released, and on Tuesday, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) unveiled a new sample-return mission to Mars's moons, sla

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http://www.wired.com

On one side: Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX (and Tesla Motors), backed by Google. On the other: Musk's friend Greg Wyler, founder of OneWeb, backed by Virgin Galactic parent company The Virgin Group and its eccentric billionaire founder Richard Brans

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http://www.sciencedaily.com

Astronomers usually discover supernovae within large galaxies, where a star explodes perhaps once a century. Now a team of astronomers has used the sharp imaging capability of the Hubble Space Telescope to confirm that three exploding stars found in

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"Air Force" is becoming an increasingly inaccurate name for the flying branch of America's armed forces. Responsible for some but not all of its aerial machines, the Air Force is also in charge of domains beyond the reach of ocean-bound navies or g

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http://www.space.com, by Douglas Messier

When Jordi Puig-Suari and Bob Twiggs began working on the first cubesat in 1999, their goal was a rather basic one -- to develop a compact satellite that university students could build and use to conduct scientific experiments and test out new tech

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