J.R. Minkel covered space, physics, cosmology and technology for Space.com, Live Science, New Scientist, Popular Science, Discover, and Scientific American, all while writing his own blog A Fistful of Science and authoring a book entitled The Instant Egghead Guide: The Universe. Minkel earned a master's degree in Science and Environmental Reporting from New York University and a B.S. in Molecular Biology from Vanderbilt University, where he dabbled in zebrafish genetics.
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Astronauts sent to colonize Mars should avoid getting pregnant en route to the Red Planet.

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From private spaceflights, to NASA missions to the moon, Mars and beyond, here's a preview of coming attractions in U.S. spaceflight for 2011.

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A baby star has been found spewing cosmic jets at nearly the speed of light.

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Researchers are building a better picture of one of the most important changes in the early universe.

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Asking the International Space Station to justify its existence is a tall order.

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The dwarf planet Eris has been found to have a surface much like Pluto's and still harbors surprises five years after its discovery.

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A new video of the second biggest asteroid in the solar system is giving astronomers a better sense of how the object spins.

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Scientists have a new origins story for a massive black hole that spews X-rays as it orbits an even larger companion star.
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Astronomers have been scratching their heads over how early galaxies pumped out so many baby stars.
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Astronomers have found evidence of buckyballs — carbon molecules shaped like soccer balls — in the nebula around a distant white dwarf star.
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