NASA just launched it’s latest mars rover, called the Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity. It’s the size of a small car and will arrive in August. How cool is that?
Through the use of existing technologies, we can actually prevent a catastrophic meteor strike that’ll take us out like the dinosaurs. Neat!
Aweome photos of the aurora borealis have been making their rounds lately on the internet. But the magnetic field around Earth is good for more than just putting on an awesome light show.
A discussion of the new classification system for exoplanets discovered throughout the galaxy. Scientists now differentiate between Earth-like worlds and those unlike Earth that may still have the conditions for life to exist. Pretty neat really.
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