Researchers already are planning an ambitious spacecraft that will orbit the mysterious world.
Revered as a great thinker and scientist, he was also obsessive, secretive, vindictive, and paranoid.
Peruvian nights, Incan sites, and coronal lights were all on full display during my recent adventure through South America.
The fifth Starmus Festival, an international celebration of science and music, assembled an all-star cast of astronauts, Nobel Prize laureates, musicians, and scientists.
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