The Institution decides to focus on four basic questions
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Robotic spacecraft allow geologists to explore other planets as if they were on-site
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The president envisions a future human mission to Mars, but medical researchers say surviving the journey is no spacewalk
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From Triton's active geysers to the Sun's seething flares, newly enhanced images from U.S. and foreign space probes depict the solar system as never before
Noreen Grice has given the visually impaired a feel for the universe
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory probes the universe for the unimaginable
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The world's largest (maybe) 9-planet solar system model goes up along Route 1 in northern Maine
It's Pluto, with its moon, Charon
The exquisite telescopes crafted by Alvan Clark and his sons helped make the last half of the 19th century a golden age of astronomy
Smithsonian astronomer Margaret Geller plotted the bubble structure of the universe. Now she's working to find out how it got that way
High schoolers ask: would metamorphosis aboard a space shuttle mission yield normal butterflies?
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Smithsonian and NASA's Chandra x-ray observatory sheds new light on the mysteries of the universe
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Three Smithsonian astronomers run a worldwide news service about what is happening overhead
The space agency crashed a satellite on the moon in a search for water. It wants to "shoot" a comet.
Light travels 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum; in Lene Hau's lab, it ambles at 38 miles an hour
As prices skyrocket, gonzo collectors are combing the globe for these celestial fragments—and riling researchers
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A cloud of spacecraft parts and debris envelops the earth. Keeping track of it takes the best we have
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