Science is Cool: More From Planet Mercury

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More pictures are coming back from planet Mercury, and they're showing scientists a view of the planet they didn't quite expect. I know a lot of people find the space program to be a waste of money, but I'm glad we still have it. I just eat this stuff up.

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Mercury Photos Surprise Astronomers

The first pictures from the unseen side of Mercury reveal the wrinkles of a shrinking, aging planet with scars from volcanic eruptions and a birthmark shaped like a spider. . .

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Science is Cool: Virgin in Space!

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This is the sort of story you'd expect to find if you woke up one day and found you'd gone Back to the Future like Marty McFly. This is really feasible? So we've got clones, devices the size of a small book that can hold the collected published works of man, and Star Trek-like communicators. One question: where are our flying cars?

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Book a space now on out of this world tourist flight

This is the first craft that is set to make regular tourist flights into space.

The Virgin Galactic spacecraft, which was being unveiled in New York today, is already under construction. Test flights are expected to begin in June, with commercial flights starting 12 months later. . .

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Science is Cool: Images of Mercury

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Sorry, I just get all geeky for this stuff. Hope you like it too.

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Scientists are sifting through their first new views of the planet Mercury in more than three decades thanks to images beamed home by NASA's MESSENGER probe. . .

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Could We All Be From Outer Space?

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It's an intriguing notion, and one with many implications for life on Earth, notably as it pertains to religion. I haven't seen the blow back on this story yet, but was amazed to find the story at--of all places--FOX "News," originally. Not wishing to link my readers to such a dubious site, I've instead linked to the source.

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Alien Life Can Survive Trip to Earth, Space Test Shows

We could have alien origins, say scientists who sent fossilized microscopic life-forms into space and back inside an artificial meteorite.

The researchers attached the baseball-size rock to the outside of the European Space Agency's Foton M3 spacecraft to test whether biological material could survive the round-trip journey. . .

Read more at: National Geographic