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The potentially Earth-like planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system may not be so conducive to life after all, two new studies report. Intense radiation and particles streaming from their host star have likely taken... Read This Article...

Future Space Colony? Maybe We Should Look Beyond Mars to Saturn’s Titan Moon

July 18, 2017

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Instead of just sending humans on a one-shot mission to look for life on the surface, a new paper envisions a future outpost on Titan that could generate power for years. NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are focuse... Read This Article...

What Could Space Archaeologists Tell Us about Astronaut Culture?

July 17, 2017

"Space archaeologist" would be a fine job description for a fictional character on an interplanetary mission to unearth the ruins of an alien civilization. But a handful of real-life archaeologists are already ... Read This Article...

Flying Cars and Casino-Themed Planes Are the Future of Flight, Says Airbus

July 14, 2017

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Chief technology officer Paul Eremenko, speaking at a Hong Kong tech conference, speculated on emerging forms of air travel, including the company's self-piloted flying car, the Vahana. Futuristic cityscape... Read This Article...

Moon Express ‘lunar outpost’ looks gorgeous, but don’t get too excited yet

July 13, 2017

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The company hopes to put robots on the moon’s South Pole by 2020 While NASA stays diligently focused on its marathon to Mars, it seems everyone else in space exploration wants to sprint to the moon. Between ... Read This Article...

Finding Extraterrestrial Life May Rely on Identifying Traces Rather Than Aliens

July 12, 2017

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Taking inspiration from the work of Leonardo da Vinci, a new paper suggests focusing on how to look for trails, tracks, burrows, and other signs that could reflect the existence of alien life. When t... Read This Article...

Calm Seas on Saturn’s Moon Titan Offer a Smooth Landing for Future Missions

July 11, 2017

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Waves on the seas of Titan are less than a one-quarter of an inch high, which would provide a calm landing surface for probes. The liquid-hydrocarbon lakes and seas on Titan are incredibly calm, suggesti... Read This Article...

Two Galaxies Zooming Past One Another Captured in Hubble Image

July 10, 2017

An unusual double galaxy sparkles in a gorgeous photo by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the unusual galaxy IRAS 06076-2139, which lies about 500 mil... Read This Article...

Pence says NASA to reorient towards human spaceflight

July 9, 2017

WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence said July 6 that the U.S. space program would refocus on human spaceflight, including missions to the moon and Mars, but offered few other details about what such a shift ... Read This Article...

XCOR Aerospace lays off remaining employees

July 8, 2017

WASHINGTON — XCOR Aerospace, a company developing rocket engines and a suborbital spaceplane, has laid off its remaining employees but is continuing efforts to raise funding to maintain at least some of its pro... Read This Article...

The surface of Mars is probably too toxic for bacteria to survive

July 7, 2017

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But the search for life on the red planet isn't over yet. Mars is not a very welcoming place. It’s cold, there’s hardly any atmosphere, and its bombarded with deep space radiation. Even the soil wants to k... Read This Article...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft is about to peer into the depths of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

July 6, 2017

We're getting our closest view ever of the 10,000-mile-wide storm. Humankind has been ogling Jupiter’s Great Red Spot through our telescopes for more than 300 years. The Voyager and Galileo missions brought ... Read This Article...

4th July in Space: How Will the Astronauts Celebrate?

July 4, 2017

Today (July 4), people all across the U.S. will celebrate Independence Day with cookouts, flags and fireworks. On the International Space Station, things will be a bit more subdued. NASA astronauts Peggy Wh... Read This Article...

Long March 5 launch fails

July 3, 2017

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WASHINGTON — The second launch of China’s most powerful rocket, the Long March 5, ended in failure July 2, the second incident involving a Chinese launch vehicle in as many weeks. A Long March 5 rocket lift... Read This Article...

Did Life on Earth Come From Outer Space?

July 1, 2017

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A look at the scientific evidence for panspermia. Where did life come from? It remains one the biggest questions in biology, and has preoccupied scientists for hundreds of years. The problem, simply put, i... Read This Article...

Vector raises $21 million for small launch vehicle development

June 30, 2017

WASHINGTON — Vector, one of a number of companies developing small launch vehicles in response to growing small satellite demand, announced June 29 that it closed a $21 million funding round. A prototype Ve... Read This Article...

The Search for the Next Large Asteroid That Might Slam Into Earth

June 29, 2017

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On June 30 — International Asteroid Day — skywatchers are raising awareness about "humanity's greatest challenge": the lack of defense measures against a large collision with Earth. Throughout its 4.5-billion-... Read This Article...

Sorry, but Anonymous has no evidence that NASA has found alien life

June 27, 2017

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In a new video, the hacker group known as Anonymous claims that NASA has discovered alien life. But before you freak out, let’s talk. For the record, most of us here at Popular Science would probably... Read This Article...

How Former Astronaut Leroy Chiao Turned His Dream of Space into a Reality

June 26, 2017

Leroy Chiao is the CEO and co-founder of OneOrbit LLC, a motivational, training and education company. He served as a NASA astronaut from 1990-2005 and flew four missions into space aboard three space shuttles ... Read This Article...

SpaceX Dragon and Falcon 9 Rocket Photobomb Each Other’s Selfies in Space

June 25, 2017

It's official: SpaceX's rockets and spaceships have caught the selfie bug in the final frontier. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft (lower right) photobombs a "selfie" image from the company's Falcon 9 rocket secon... Read This Article...

Recycled Falcon 9 rocket survives one of SpaceX’s most challenging landings yet

June 24, 2017

Yestreday at 3:10pm Eastern, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lofted a Bulgarian communications satellite into space. While BulgariaSat-1 was still making its way into its proper orbit, the first stage of the rocket re... Read This Article...

Planet 10? Another Earth-Size World May Lurk in the Outer Solar System

June 23, 2017

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A planet-size object may be orbiting the sun in the icy reaches of the solar system beyond Pluto. A planetary-mass object the size of Mars may be lurking in the outer solar system.Credit: Heather Roper/LPL ... Read This Article...

Is It Time to Rethink How We Search for Alien Life?

June 22, 2017

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WASHINGTON — From the lovable, candy-munching E.T. to the deadly Xenomorphs from the "Alien" movies, science-fiction stories are bursting with all kinds of alien encounters. But in reality, we've yet to achieve... Read This Article...

Here’s How You Can Watch a Solar Eclipse Without Messing Up Your Eyes

June 21, 2017

As the Great American Solar Eclipse approaches, NASA says that with the right information, skywatchers can safely view the total solar eclipse in its full glory with the naked eye. Your parents probably told y... Read This Article...

Made in Space Talks ‘Teleporting’ and the Future of Space-Borne 3D Printing

June 20, 2017

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NEW YORK — The California company Made In Space, known for providing the first 3D printer on the International Space Station, has big goals for space-borne manufacturing — for both people in space and those bac... Read This Article...

Ten ways that astronauts are helping you stay healthy

June 19, 2017

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Astronauts on the International Space Station are growing crystals that could help develop new drugs for use on Earth. Here are ten healthcare technologies that have already come from space: 1. Robots that c... Read This Article...

More Alien Worlds! NASA to Announce New Exoplanet Finds Monday

June 18, 2017

NASA will announce the latest crop of planet discoveries from the Kepler Space Telescope during a briefing Monday morning (June 19). NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered thousands of planets orbitin... Read This Article...

Spooky action at a record-breaking distance

June 17, 2017

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Entangled particles remain linked over 746 miles apart From a Chinese satellite drifting through suborbital space, a laser beamed pairs of entangled photons to two separate locations on the ground. Although ... Read This Article...

Baby Star’s ‘Crying’ Solves a Stellar Mystery

June 16, 2017

Astronomers using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have precisely measured the rotating fountains of gas flowing out from a massive newborn star, revealing the complex i... Read This Article...

Electric-Powered Lunar Space Tug Could Facilitate Future Moon Missions

June 15, 2017

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To make moon flights cheaper, a new paper proposes that NASA use an electrically powered lunar space tug that would operate between Earth and the moon. Artist’s impression of NASA’s Space Launch System duri... Read This Article...

Our sun might have been born with an evil twin called “Nemesis”

June 14, 2017

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Sunlike stars often come in twos and threes, and astronomers and astrophysicists have long wondered why. Are these pairs and trios born as multiple stars orbiting the same point, or do they meet up when the gra... Read This Article...

12 Possible Reasons We Haven’t Found Aliens

June 13, 2017

In 1950, a learned lunchtime conversation set the stage for decades of astronomical exploration. Physicist Enrico Fermi submitted to his colleagues around the table a couple contentions, summarized as 1) The ga... Read This Article...

Become a Citizen of the Asgardia Space Nation With 300kb of Data

June 13, 2017

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Asgardia will launch its first satellite later this year. Scientists behind the 'space nation' Asgardia will take the first steps towards achieving their goals of a lawless space society later this year, w... Read This Article...

Compact Fusion Rockets Could Be the Future of Interplanetary Space Missions

June 12, 2017

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Fusion technology can enable exciting robotic and human missions to Mars and Pluto, and may potentially provide a means of making interstellar space travel possible. Artist's illustration of a fusion-driven... Read This Article...

Comet Strikes May Have Helped Spur Life on Earth

June 10, 2017

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New research provides for the first time a genetic link between comets and the atmosphere of Earth. Life on Earth may not have been possible without comet strikes. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko |... Read This Article...

Astronauts Record Awesome Welcome Video for NASA’s 2017 Recruits

June 7, 2017

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It is the ultimate orientation film: NASA astronauts on Earth and in space have recorded a fun video to welcome the incoming 2017 astronaut class. The space agency will unveil the new class on Wednesday (June 7... Read This Article...

Earth Faces an Increased Risk of Being Hit by an Asteroid, Astronomers Warn

June 7, 2017

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Large asteroids may be lurking undiscovered within a meteoroid stream whose particles are hitting Earth, and scientists are urging a concentrated search for them. Thinkstock Earth may be threatened b... Read This Article...

Here’s What Emergency Medicine Will Look Like for Astronauts in Space

June 6, 2017

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Astronauts with little medical training could potentially break bones, develop blood clots, or find themselves dealing with other unexpected emergency situations. Expedition 50 flight engineer Thomas Pesque... Read This Article...

1st Private Space Station Will Become an Off-Earth Manufacturing Hub

June 5, 2017

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The first-ever commercial space station will become a manufacturing hub just a few years after reaching orbit, if everything goes according to plan. Artist's concept of the private Axiom space station in Ea... Read This Article...

SpaceX sticks 11th rocket landing after launching first used Dragon capsule

June 4, 2017

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Five ground landings attempted and five ground landings achieved Another one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets successfully landed back on Earth this evening after launching cargo and supplies to the International ... Read This Article...

NASA’s GPS-Like Deep Space Navigation Experiment Set to Launch on SpaceX Rocket

June 3, 2017

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The space agency is preparing to test the use of pulsars as navigational beacons, which it hopes will enable a sustained human presence throughout the solar system. hen the first pulsar was discovere... Read This Article...

Mars was probably habitable for longer than we thought

June 2, 2017

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It was warm and wet right around the time life got its start on Earth. In ancient times, Gale Crater rippled with the fresh, blue water of a large lake. Now it’s a 90-mile-wide hole in the red Martian surfac... Read This Article...

NASA’s sun-kissing probe gets a hot new name

June 1, 2017

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The mission itself isn't news. NASA's solar probe is launching in the summer of 2018, and if you know anything about how space exploration works, you know that means it's been in the works for quite some time. ... Read This Article...

Commercial crew vehicles may fall short of safety threshold

May 31, 2017

WASHINGTON — The two companies developing commercial crew vehicles for NASA may not be able to meet a safety threshold specified in their contracts, an agency safety panel found. At a meeting May 25 of the A... Read This Article...

Butterfly Craters on Mars, Mercury, Moon Reveal Similarities and Differences

May 30, 2017

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Unusual butterfly-shaped craters on Mars, Mercury and the moon may provide insights into the surfaces of the three worlds, and even suggest the presence of a third moonlet that may have once orbited t... Read This Article...

Cassini Takes Most Dangerous Saturn Ring Dive Yet

May 28, 2017

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The Cassini spacecraft completes its sixth dive between Saturn and its rings today (May 28), and this is the most dangerous dive yet. Instead of passing safely between the planet and its rings, the spacecraft i... Read This Article...

Jupiter Sounds Like a Fax Machine and Nobody Knows Why

May 26, 2017

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On Thursday, NASA dropped the first motherlode of information collected by the Juno spacecraft, which has been in orbit around Jupiter since last summer. Comprised of a whopping 46 papers, the data dump include... Read This Article...

TRAPPIST-1h Orbit Suggests It Is Too Cold for Life

May 25, 2017

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Scientists have confirmed that all seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system circle their star in a sort of gravitational lockstep with one another. The orbits of all seven Earth-size planets in the TRAPPIS... Read This Article...

NASA Declares ‘Victory’ With Critical ISS Spacewalk

May 24, 2017

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American astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer conducted an emergency spacewalk to repair a failed piece of equipment that helps power the International Space Station. Two US astronauts successfully ... Read This Article...

Space Aggressors’ Train US Forces for Extraterrestrial Conflict

May 23, 2017

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Elite military units are specializing in mock space warfare, as Russia and China develop anti-satellite weaponry. In a large, tin-roofed warehouse near Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, members of a team of modern... Read This Article...

Astronauts to replace faulty electronics unit in unscheduled ISS spacewalk

May 22, 2017

WASHINGTON — NASA astronauts on the International Space Station will carry out an unplanned spacewalk May 23 to replace an electronics box that failed over the weekend, the agency announced May 21. Astronau... Read This Article...

Virgin Galactic says suborbital spaceflights are full until 2021

May 21, 2017

Virgin Galactic says its suborbital spaceflights are booked until 2021. VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo, glides during a Dec. 22 flight test. Credit: Virgin Galactic Stephen Attenborough... Read This Article...

That weird ‘alien megastructure’ star is dimming again right now

May 20, 2017

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ASTRONOMERS ARE SCRAMBLING TO TAKE MEASUREMENTS. In late 2015, astronomers noticed something absurd happening around a distant star. Something massive seemed to be blocking as much as 20 percent of the s... Read This Article...

Astronaut’s Time-Lapse Video Features Auroras and Brilliant Sunrise

May 19, 2017

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French astronaut Thomas Pesquet caught stunning views of auroras and a sunrise over Earth from the International Space Station, woven into a new time-lapse video. "The first bright rise… is not the sun!" Pes... Read This Article...

‘Styrofoam’ Planet Discovery Will Help Us Find Habitable Planets and Alien Life

May 17, 2017

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KELT-11b will help astronomers develop the best tools for assessing habitability or possible life on distant exoplanets. An artist's rendering of KELT-11b, an exoplanet with Styrofoam-like density. |Walter ... Read This Article...

Cosmic rays suggest dark matter is a self-annihilating WIMP

May 16, 2017

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Two papers analyze new precision data from the AMS-02 instrument on the ISS. AMS aboard the International Space Station. What happens when two dark matter particles collide? We don’t know the answer to tha... Read This Article...

SpaceX Will Launch Its 1st Flight for Inmarsat Tonight: Watch It Live

May 15, 2017

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a hefty communications satellite into orbit tonight (May 15) for London-based Inmarsat, a new customer for Elon Musk's launch company. Liftoff ... Read This Article...

Risky Business: At Mars Conference, Experts Discuss Threats to Space Travelers

May 14, 2017

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Space will never be a risk-free environment, but there are ways to reduce the risk for crew who travel on future deep-space missions, experts noted at the Human to Mars Summit in Washington, D.C., yesterday (Ma... Read This Article...

Mars May Have Been Born in the Asteroid Belt

May 13, 2017

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Research suggests that gravitational interactions forced Mars out of the asteroid belt and toward the sun about 120 million years after the birth of the solar system. NASA Mars and Earth have very differ... Read This Article...

Watch two NASA astronauts complete the 200th spacewalk outside the ISS

May 12, 2017

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A landmark spacewalk to carry out some necessary repairs Today, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer will perform the 200th spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS). Live coverage ... Read This Article...

The Moon Is Hot and Mars Is Not (At Least in Recent Sci-Fi)

May 11, 2017

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Andy Weir’s new novel ‘Artemis’ is set on the lunar surface, but it’s hardly the only recent novel to focus on the moon over Mars. The Moon captured the imagination of science fiction writers long before t... Read This Article...

NASA TV Coverage Set for 200th Spacewalk at International Space Station

May 10, 2017

NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer will perform a landmark 200th spacewalk at the International Space Station Friday, May 12. Live coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m. EDT on NASA Televi... Read This Article...

The Air Force wants you to know about its secret robotic spacecraft, the X-37B

May 9, 2017

AS FOR WHAT IT DOES? THAT'S STILL UNSPECIFIED. The Air Force has a secret space robot called the X-37B. We know this because the Air Force is very proud of the X-37B, though we don’t know exactly why, and th... Read This Article...

Going Back to Pluto? Scientists to Push for Orbiter Mission

May 8, 2017

Humanity's first up-close look at Pluto was so intriguing that some researchers want to go back and spend a lot more time studying the icy world. Layers of haze above Pluto, as seen by NASA’s New Horizons s... Read This Article...

Alien: Covenant review: a terrifying return to horror

May 7, 2017

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When Ridley Scott returned to the Alien franchise with 2012’s Prometheus, one of the primary criticisms was that the film wasn’t really, well, Alien-esque. Rather than build upon the sci-fi / horror formula he ... Read This Article...

TRAPPIST-1 Planets Have No Large Moons, Study Argues

May 6, 2017

The conditions for habitable exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system might depend on the presence of large moons — and Earth reveals clues to why. Artist's impression of a hypothetical exomoon going around an i... Read This Article...

Stephen Hawking says we have 100 years to colonize a new planet—or die. Could we do it?

May 5, 2017

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Here's what it would take to survive this particular doomsday prophecy Stephen Hawking is making apocalyptic predictions again. The respected theoretical physicist warns that humanity needs to become a m... Read This Article...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to send the first of its 4,425 super-fast internet satellites into space in 2019

May 4, 2017

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Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to start launching satellites into orbit in 2019 to provide high-speed internet to Earth. Brendan Hoffman | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesElon Musk In November, the company outlined pl... Read This Article...

SpaceShipTwo tests feather system on latest glide flight

May 2, 2017

WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic said May 1 it successfully tested the system on its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle that permits a safe reentry on the vehicle’s latest unpowered test flight. SpaceShipTwo glide... Read This Article...

Spy Satellite Launched by SpaceX for First Time

May 1, 2017

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The National Reconnaissance Office satellite (designated NROL-76) was launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket on May 1, 2017. This is the first military payload launch by SpaceX since it was certified to do so in 2015.... Read This Article...

Lego is releasing its coolest spaceship to date: an Apollo Saturn V

April 29, 2017

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Lego is no stranger to space toys. The company first released its Space line of sets in 1978, and since then, fans have built hundreds of different spaceships, real and fictional. Today, Lego announced a new se... Read This Article...

A spacecraft just flew between Saturn and its rings for the first time ever

April 28, 2017

NASA's Cassini is approaching its final days NASA's 20-year Cassini mission is finally coming to a close. After years of orbiting around the Saturn system and collecting some stellar scientific data, the spa... Read This Article...

SpaceX prepares for its first big NRO launch

April 27, 2017

WASHINGTON – Preparations are underway for SpaceX’s first big launch for the National Reconnaissance Office, a classified mission slated to lift off early Sunday from Florida. SpaceX conducted a static fir... Read This Article...

Whose is bigger? How all the Mars-bound rockets stack up

April 26, 2017

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Like everything else in the 1960s, NASA’s Saturn V rocket set a mark for extreme. At 363 feet tall, with 7.5 million pounds of liftoff thrust, it lifted six moon-bound missions into space. Retired in 1973, ... Read This Article...

What it would actually take to get to Mars by 2020

April 25, 2017

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Today, during a phone call with astronaut Peggy Whitson on the International Space Station, President Trump joked that he hoped NASA would land astronauts on Mars by the end of his first term in 2020. Ob... Read This Article...

Mysteries of Crown-like Structures on Venus’ Surface Unveiled in New Study

April 24, 2017

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On Venus, plumes of superheated rock from near the planet's core may rise up intermittently, destroy patches of the planet's surface and create unique crown-shaped geologic features called coronae, a new study ... Read This Article...

Do you have what it takes to go to space? Retired astronauts weigh in on the gruelling recruitment process

April 23, 2017

MONTREAL — Retired Canadian spaceman Bob Thirsk asks himself a couple of simple questions when sizing up people who tell him they want to become an astronaut. The first is whether he could see himself ge... Read This Article...

Cassini probe heads towards Saturn ‘grand finale’

April 22, 2017

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Cassini has used a gravitational slingshot around Saturn's moon Titan to put it on a path towards destruction. Saturday's flyby swept the probe into an orbit that takes it in between the planet's rings and its... Read This Article...

A warp in space-time just gave us four views of one exploding star

April 21, 2017

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Astronomers catch a galaxy magnifying and splitting the light from a supernova Although the night sky often seems so peaceful and still, a closer look reveals constant movement and change. The Intermediate P... Read This Article...

Astronomers Say This Distant ‘Super-Earth’ Might Just Be Habitable

April 20, 2017

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A recently found exoplanet has astronomers thinking that it may be the best place to look for signs of life beyond our solar system. Move over, TRAPPIST-1 and Proxima Centauri b. A recently found exoplan... Read This Article...

NASA Space Station Cargo Launches aboard Orbital ATK Resupply Mission

April 19, 2017

The International Space Station will be capable of dozens of new scientific investigations from NASA and around the world when Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft delivers more than 7,600 pounds of cargo Saturday, ... Read This Article...

Astronomers Capture the First ‘Image’ of the Dark Matter That Holds the Universe Together

April 18, 2017

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Researchers have produced what they say is the first composite image of a dark matter filament that connects galaxies across the cosmos. For decades, scientists have tracked hints of a thread-like struct... Read This Article...

An Asteroid the Size of the Rock of Gibraltar Is Hurtling Toward Earth… but Don’t Worry

April 15, 2017

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NASA says there is no possibility for the asteroid to collide with our planet, but this will be a very close approach for an asteroid this size. An asteroid as big as the Rock of Gibraltar will streak pa... Read This Article...

Saturn’s moon has just about everything you need to make life

April 14, 2017

Deep-sea vents could infuse Enceladus' ocean with microbe food The results are back from the Cassini spacecraft's closest encounter with Enceladus, and they're good news for folks who hope to find aliens on ... Read This Article...

Jeff Bezos: Blue Origin Passengers Can’t Use the Bathroom and Shouldn’t Barf

April 13, 2017

The Blue Origin founder and CEO says his company has no plans to install systems on New Shepard to deal with human waste during flight. A digital representation of the inside of Blue Origin's New Shepard pa... Read This Article...

Jupiter Now Has a ‘Great Cold Spot’ to Go With Its Great Red Spot

April 12, 2017

This image shows how the Great Cold Spot changes dramatically in shape and size on different days. |University of Leicester A new massive storm has been spotted in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, and it's consi... Read This Article...

SpaceX Rocket Could Be 100-Percent Reusable by 2018, Elon Musk Says

April 11, 2017

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SpaceX could begin launching completely reusable Falcon 9 rockets by the end of next year, company founder and CEO Elon Musk said. On March 30, a Falcon 9 with a "flight-proven" first stage launched the SES-... Read This Article...

First Female Space Station Commander Takes Helm Again: Watch Live Today

April 9, 2017

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This morning (April 9), NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson will become the first woman to twice command the International Space Station, taking command before three space fliers return to Earth. You can watch both ev... Read This Article...

NASA TV to Air Return of Space Station Crew Members to Earth April 10

April 6, 2017

Three crew members aboard the International Space Station are scheduled to depart the orbiting outpost Monday, April 10. Coverage of their departure and return to Earth will air on NASA Television and the agenc... Read This Article...

Watch SpaceX land a used rocket for the first time ever

April 5, 2017

SpaceX made history last week when it landed a used Falcon 9 rocket on one of its drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean. Never before has the space transport outfit attempted to relaunch one of its recovered rocket... Read This Article...

Launchspace pitches debris sweeper that doubles as satellite tracker

April 4, 2017

COLORADO SPRINGS — Launchspace Technologies Corp. proposes sending platforms as large as football fields into low Earth orbit to sweep up space debris. The platforms also would be equipped with sensors to help ... Read This Article...

Red Planet versus Dead Planet: Scientists Debate Next Destination for Astronauts in Space

April 3, 2017

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Nearly a half-century after humans voyaged to the moon, NASA and private U.S. companies are once again setting their sights beyond low Earth orbit THE WOODLANDS, Texas—Should the U.S. send humans back to the m... Read This Article...

Astronaut Loses Space Blanket During Historic Spacewalk

April 1, 2017

While setting a record for the most spacewalks by a woman, American Peggy Whitson lost a thermal blanket that provides protection on the International Space Station. A space blanket floated away from Ame... Read This Article...

Success for SpaceX ‘re-usable rocket’

March 31, 2017

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California's SpaceX company has successfully re-flown a segment from one of its Falcon 9 rockets. The first-stage booster, which was previously used on a mission 11 months ago, helped send a telecommunications... Read This Article...

Peek inside Blue Origin’s capsule for space tourists

March 30, 2017

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Blue Origin, the private company hoping to carry tourists into space in 2018, has unveiled the interior design for its spacecraft's cabin. Blue OriginTourists onboard the New Shepard crew capsule will e... Read This Article...

Something big exploded in a galaxy far, far away: what was it?

March 29, 2017

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At 10:49pm Western Australian time on February 2 this year, cosmic gamma rays hit the NASA satellite, Swift, orbiting the Earth. Within seconds of the detection, an alert was automatically sent to the Univer... Read This Article...

No one knows what to do with the International Space Station

March 28, 2017