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Guest Post: Colorado goes to Mars again Colorado-built Mars INSIGHT lander...

May, 2018 — Why would you do that?” my son, Mike Surline, asked. “A long way to go, to see something that lasts only seconds.”...

Colorado’s left-brain, right-brain contributions to the MAVEN mission to Mars

The Mars probe “MAVEN” launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Monday with lots of help from Colorado.

Twelve Thousand Poets . Pen Haiku for Mars Mission . Art...

Certain things bring out the writer in us. Among them is wonder. More than 12,000 people, inspired by the upcoming Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, have submitted haiku musing about the red planet, celebrating the voyage and otherwise waxing poetic about everything from taxpayer-funded space exploration to galactic peace.

Science Sunday: Urban Goes Rural; Rockies hit outerspace

Red Rocks or Red Sox, it's all the same to Colorado in finding "home plate."The suburbs are coming! The suburbs are coming! Private development adjacent...