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It was actually astronaut Naoko Yamazaki's seven-year-old daughter who posed the scientific question to be tested. She asked her space-bound mother why, in a bubble bath, bubbles appear to be clear even if the bubble bath mixture is a fun...
 
Budget cuts recently spanked NASA's space program, reducing it to a ragtag fleet of space-faring robots, but wait. President Obama somehow found $6 billion for the beleaguered space agency, in the name of creating 2,500 additional jobs at NASA. The...
 
As seen on our sister site, SCI FI Wire, NASA's discovered something lurking out in the depths of space. Thanks to the massive, 81-mile-wide Herschel impact crater marring the surface of Mimas, one of Saturn's moons, the satellite is often...
 
The more probes and people we send into space, the more views we have of ourselves from an ever-increasing distance. After all, NASA not only explores space, but studies Earth from space. That guitar-playing astronaut floating in the Cupola we...

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