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Nadia Drake's Articles
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Exploring NASA’s quirky places
Best known for its role in crafting and commanding spacecraft such as Curiosity, JPL is also home to decades’ worth of accumulated oddities. - Feature
Milky Way will bite the dust
Eventual collision with Andromeda to shake up the solar system. - Feature
Earth's new neighbor looks familiar
Planet discovered in Alpha Centauri, just a few light-years away. - Feature
Curiosity goes to Mars
NASA’s rover looks for life-friendly environments. - News
Digging deep into Martian soil
NASA's rover takes a closer look at Mars' surface. - Feature
Onward and Skyward
With new efforts aimed at the stars, China seeks to revive its astronomical reputation. - News
Astronomers spot leftover light from ancient stars
Ancient photons leave their mark in high-energy radiation from powerful galaxies. - News
Violent birth proposed for Saturn’s moon mishmash
A simulation suggests that giant collisions created Titan and the planet’s many smaller satellites. - People
The man behind Sarcastic Rover
NASA’s newest rover, Curiosity, wasn’t alone on Mars for long. - Feature
Prospecting for Quasicrystals
Siberian journey nets a mineralogical space oddity.