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Building a flying vehicle for Mars would have significant advantages for exploration of the surface. However, to date, all of our surface exploring vehicles and robotic units on Mars have been terrestrial rovers. The pro...

Are you wearing a gold ring? Or perhaps gold-plated earrings? Maybe you have some gold fillings in your teeth... for that matter, the human body itself naturally contains gold -- 0.000014%, to be exact! But regardless of...

As the Bad Astronomer has been known to say, "Holy Haleakala!" What an awesome view from the top of Haleakala, a massive shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian island of Maui. Astrophotographer Henry Wei...

Hunters of alien life may have a new and unsuspected niche to scout out. A recent paper submitted by Associate Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University Kristen Menou to the Astrophysical Journal suggests that tidall...

If you thought all was reasonably quiet at the center of the Milky Way, you'd be wrong. Of course, you knew there was a black hole waiting... but did you know the ESO's Very Large Telescope has seen a cloud of gas being ...

This image of the steadily-approaching Comet ISON, made from observations with the Hubble Space Telescope on April 30, show not only the comet itself but also a rich background of stars located within our own galaxy and ...