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Major NASA update

Allison Thornton | Wednesday, November 10, 2021

You know what time it is: It’s time for me to dedicate my whole Inside Column to science! This is one of my favorite things to write about — space exploration. And boy, do I have a phenomenal update for you. Today I will be talking about the James Webb Space Telescope NASA will be

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Want your name on the next Mars rover?

Allison Thornton | Monday, August 31, 2020

If there is one thing you should know about me, it’s that I love space. I love everything from the stars to the theory of relativity. I find it fascinating and mind-boggling all at the same time. There is so much to discover when it comes to the cosmos. One day, while packing up to

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RIP Kepler

Emma Farnan | Wednesday, November 14, 2018

On Oct. 30, NASA announced that one of the most iconic and influential telescopes ever to exist has run out of fuel. The Kepler Telescope was launched in March 2009 with the intent to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. Kepler did this using the “transient method” which detects the relative dimming of a star

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Keep exploring

Emma Farnan | Wednesday, February 22, 2017

“We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” These are the words that President John F. Kennedy pronounced to the American people while speaking at Rice University on Sept. 12, 1962.