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In an effort to make sure you’re well aware that the 8100T is the most premium possible, even better than ultra- or mega-premium, Navigon has definitively described the aforesaid navigator as “uber-premium.” So, now that the bar is set at an unbelievably high level, how’s about an outlay of the sure-to-be-phenomenal specs? We’re [...]

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Scarab, a robot developed by Carnegie Mellon University with support from NASA, is about to be tested at Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano to prove its fitness for the extreme conditions of space.
The robot was developed by the Lunar Rover Initiative, a group of scientists from the Field Robotics Center at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. The [...]

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Grumbling from engineers and officials inside NASA is joining a chorus of outside critics, so we asked four-time shuttle astronaut Tom Jones to help make sense of the turmoil.

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Why walk on the moon when you can ride in the comfort of your own robotic rover? Meet NASA’s new All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer, or ATHLETE.

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Ulysses, a satellite operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, has been observing solar wind-charged particles ejected by the sun’s upper atmosphere-since its launch in 1990.

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Short on time and tight on money, a team of NASA engineers aims to solve the mystery of lunar ice in late winter-by crashing its low-budget kamikaze spacecraft into a crater.

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Despite today’s findings of toxic perchlorate in Martian soil, NASA is not ready to write off life on Mars; leading space scientists point to earthbound extremeophiles that process the substance.

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Short on time and tight on money, a team of NASA engineers aims to solve the mystery of lunar ice in late winter-by crashing its low-budget kamikaze spacecraft into a crater.

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Despite today’s findings of toxic perchlorate in Martian soil, NASA is not ready to write off life on Mars; leading space scientists point to earthbound extremeophiles that process the substance.

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NASA’s Phoenix Mission officially confirmed the presence of Martian water on Thursday, but doesn’t that sound like old news? Here’s a timeline showing our attempts to prove that there’s water in outer space.

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