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After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock ...

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Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

The U.S. needs to set an example for the rest of the world, by taking our nuclear missiles off hair trigger alert, and negotiating a reduction of our arsenal ...

Lili Xia is an assistant research professor in the department of environmental sciences at Rutgers University.