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  • Open Source Outer Space

    Anyone with enough brains and balls can build their own rocket and fly it to space. Or at least that’s what the nonprofit, open-source space-project Copenhagen Suborbitals wants the world to realize. They're determined to create the first homemade...

  • The Satellite Hunter

    Thierry Legault is not your average amateur astronomer. He’s a renowned astrophotographer, painstakingly chronicling the orbits of planets, distant galaxies, spaceships, and—to the chagrin of the intelligence community—the spy satellites we’re not...

  • The Guy Who Hunts Space Bears in Rural Virginia

    Mike Shaw knows more about tardigrades than almost anyone. These microscopic creatures, whose name comes from the German for "slow walker," and who are sometimes called "water bears" because of their bear-like gait, are biological oddities.

  • Blowing Up Asteroids with Neil deGrasse Tyson

    What are the chances of an asteroid colliding with earth and causing hundreds of millions of people to drown in tidal waves the size of skyscrapers? For this piece, we talked to science's No. 1 booster, Neil deGrasse Tyson, about what it would take to...

  • Endless Columns of Outer Space

    Right where we figured out how the universe was born, this weekend there's some special communication with outer space.