By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News
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May 30, 2013
Want to take a closer look at the moon, or spy on your favourite nebula? Here's your chance. For a few hundred dollars, you can take control of the Arkyd 100, the first crowdfunded space telescope, to be built by private would-be asteroid-mining firm Planetary Resources.
May 24, 2013
by Seth Shostak, SETI Institute Senior Astronomer
It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you've seen is typical. That's because "typical" is just another way of saying "most probable."
Consequently, ever since Copernicus redrew the blueprint of the cosmos nearly five centuries ago, we've assumed that there would be other planets that resemble ours, situated in solar systems like our own.
