Following on Cassini's discoveries, NASA aims to probe Jupiter's Europa for potential life. With every new world we discover, we should look back at our own planet with awe.
September 27, 2017
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The Farthest: Voyager In Space, airing August 30 on PBS, celebrates a technological and intellectual achievement rarely matched in history — one that has forever changed us.
August 30, 2017
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Seven Earth-size planets have been found to orbit a dwarf star 40 light-years away. Finding life as we know it there would mean it's likely elsewhere in galaxy, too.
March 2, 2017
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If there is a central lesson in the movie, it is that united we win; that what makes America great is not segregation and intolerance, but openness and inclusiveness.
February 14, 2017
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Juno's scientists will be the first ones to see things about Jupiter no one has ever seen before. For a few brief moments, they will share a silent bond with Galileo.
July 19, 2016
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Though accidents may happen, there is no stopping human exploration of space: We are bound to outer shores as we were once bound to shores on this planet.
February 23, 2016
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What makes up your body are the remains of stars long gone. That this star stuff got organized to the point of becoming animated, thinking matter is nothing short of wonderful.
September 22, 2015
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Marcelo wonders what the children watching the flyby will accomplish as they join the ranks of future space explorers. The probes have been there; perhaps now it is our turn.
July 28, 2015
In honor of Earth Day, Marcelo points us to a trailer of the new movie, which calls for a change in perspective — a new way of relating to each other and to the planet.
May 6, 2015
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