The ambitious plan to build Star Trek's USS Enterprise
Posted on May 16, 2012, at 7:40 AMOne adventurous engineer makes a compelling case to boldly build what no man has built before. Could the crazy thing actually work?
The dark matter pelting your body right now: A guide
Posted on May 3, 2012, at 7:38 AMGroundbreaking research suggests the universe's most mysterious substance is hitting the human body at a much higher rate than previously thought
Asteroid mining: Is there money to be made in space?
Posted on April 23, 2012, at 1:47 PMJames Cameron, Google's top brass, and Ross Perot's son are betting big that there's platinum in the heavens. Are they delusional or brilliant?
Coming soon: A telescope that crunches more data than the entire internet?
Posted on April 4, 2012, at 3:40 PMAn international team of astronomers imagines an enormous system of space telescopes stretching for thousands of kilometers above the Earth
The gigantic solar tornado that could devour five Earths
Posted on March 30, 2012, at 4:53 PMSolar Dynamics Laboratory videotapes a twister — large enough to destroy our planet — stretching out from the sun's surface
Did a rare 'supermoon' sink the Titanic?
Posted on March 8, 2012, at 7:00 AMAstronomers say that a unique combination of celestial forces may have dislodged the icebergs that clogged the cruise liner's path
Could a 'humongous' asteroid really hit Earth in 2040?
Posted on February 29, 2012, at 1:45 PMScientists warn that a space rock longer than a football field could smash into our planet
Playboy's plan for a strip club... in outer space
Posted on February 27, 2012, at 5:50 PMThe iconic men's mag dreams of an adult playland floating far above Earth — complete with cocktail-serving, jet-pack-wearing bunnies
A 'space elevator' by 2050?
Posted on February 27, 2012, at 7:20 AMA Japanese firm would like to take tourists spaceward, to a station connected to a 22,370-mile stretch of cable. Could it happen?
'Waterworld': The strange planet covered in a 'big, hot ocean'
Posted on February 22, 2012, at 2:21 PMAstronomers discover a bizarre new planet that may be home to exotic substances like "hot ice" and "superfluid water"
The 'janitor satellite' that cleans up space junk
Posted on February 16, 2012, at 3:22 PMOver 500,000 pieces of dangerous debris are flying around Earth, but a new initiative could help reduce the threat
Is Mars too dry for life?
Posted on February 7, 2012, at 6:20 AMMineral samples suggest the Red Planet has been left hopelessly parched by a "super-drought" millions of years in the making
Why we'll never find another planet like Earth
Posted on February 3, 2012, at 1:56 PMIt doesn't matter how hard NASA looks, says Mark Fischetti at Scientific American. Until it identifies another planet with plants, Earth remains stubbornly unique
A massive solar storm's 'spectacular' aurora borealis
Posted on January 30, 2012, at 4:24 PMWhen the sun spits out solar flares, they can disrupt electronics, interrupt air travel — and dazzle stargazers with "astounding" Northern Lights
The 'strongest solar storm since 2005': A guide
Posted on January 24, 2012, at 1:40 PMA massive eruption from the sun's surface has Earth primed for a close encounter with a powerful solar flare
The groundbreaking plan to photograph a black hole
Posted on January 19, 2012, at 12:58 PMScientists want to build an enormous "virtual telescope" capable of taking a picture of a massive black hole 26,000 light years away
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