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Here’s What Alien Life on Saturn’s Moon May Look Like

By Chelsea Gohd

The Marshall Islands Is Most Recent Nation to Make Crypto an Official Currency

The Marshall Islands Is Most Recent Nation to Make Crypto an Official Currency

By Kristin Houser

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The Moon Will Soon Have Its Own Mobile Network

By Alexandra Ossola

Life Exists in the Driest Desert on Earth. It Could Exist on Mars, Too.

Life Exists in the Driest Desert on Earth. It Could Exist on Mars, Too.

By Chelsea Gohd

New Study Challenges Previous Conclusions About Water on the Moon

New Study Challenges Previous Conclusions About Water on the Moon

By Chelsea Gohd

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Why Are We Going to the Moon, Again? Oh Right, to Make It a “Gas Station for Outer Space”

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As SpaceX and Boeing Jockey to Land on Mars, Other Companies Eye Lunar Exploration

By Chelsea Gohd

Trump Just Signed a Directive to Send US Astronauts to the Moon

Trump Just Signed a Directive to Send US Astronauts to the Moon

By Patrick Caughill

How Will Humans React If We Discover Alien Life? This New Study Just Found Out (and Surprised Us)

How Will Humans React If We Discover Alien Life? This New Study Just Found Out (and Surprised Us)

India’s First-Ever Moon Mission to Launch in 2018

India’s First-Ever Moon Mission to Launch in 2018

By Chelsea Gohd

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Want to Fly People to the Moon? Become a Commercial Astronaut.

By Claudia Geib

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NASA’s “Cheap” Alternative for Reaching Mars? Atomic Rockets.

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The Kepler Mission Has Discovered Nearly 100 New Exoplanets

By Chelsea Gohd

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Mining Crypto Takes So Much Bandwidth, It’s Inhibiting the Search for Alien Life

By Claudia Geib

The Falcon Heavy Just Launched Successfully. Next Stop, Mars.

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We’ve Seen Less Than One Percent of Mars. NASA’s New Lander Is Going To Change That.

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Four Chinese Students Spent 200 Days Pretending to Live on the Moon

By Chelsea Gohd

The Atmospheres of Distant Planets Guide Scientists in the Search for Alien Life

Bill Nye: “I Predict No One Is Going To Want To Settle on Mars”

Bill Nye: “I Predict No One Is Going To Want To Settle on Mars”

By Alexandra Ossola

You’re Not Crazy if You Believe in UFOs. Let’s Discuss in Scientific Terms.

You’re Not Crazy if You Believe in UFOs. Let’s Discuss in Scientific Terms.

By Alexandra Ossola

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Researchers Identify Eight Sites With Exposed Water Ice on Mars

Chang'e 4 Mission

China Is Sending Plants and Insects to the Moon in 2018

By Chelsea Gohd

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Is SpaceX Sending a Tesla Roadster to Mars? We’ll Believe It When We See It.

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After the Moon and Mars, NASA Wants to Head to Alpha Centauri in 2069

Astronomers Are Gearing Up to Listen for Evidence of Aliens from a Mysterious Interstellar Object

Astronomers Are Gearing Up to Listen for Evidence of Aliens from a Mysterious Interstellar Object

By Patrick Caughill

Super Earth planets could host alien life.

A Second Super Earth Spotted 111 Light-Years Away

By Chelsea Gohd

Boeing Believes It Can Beat SpaceX to Mars

Boeing Believes It Can Beat SpaceX to Mars

By Aylin Woodward

This Discovery Could Change the Way We Search for Alien Life

This Discovery Could Change the Way We Search for Alien Life

By Chelsea Gohd

Elon Musk Loves the Idea of His Tesla Roadster Being the Falcon Heavy’s First Mars Payload

Elon Musk Loves the Idea of His Tesla Roadster Being the Falcon Heavy’s First Mars Payload

By Chelsea Gohd

Alien life could be on this grey moon of Saturn.

A Russian Billionaire, Not NASA, May Uncover Alien Life

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The First-Ever Interstellar Asteroid Is the Start of a New Era in Astronomy

Elon Musk: SpaceX’s “BFR” Rocket Will Do More Than Take Us to Mars

Elon Musk: SpaceX’s “BFR” Rocket Will Do More Than Take Us to Mars

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The U.S. Officially Says They Are Sending Humans to the Moon

Elon Musk Teased the Idea of Getting an Internet Connection on Mars

Elon Musk Teased the Idea of Getting an Internet Connection on Mars

By Chelsea Gohd

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We May Finally Understand How Alien Life Could Survive on Saturn’s Moon

By Patrick Caughill

Discovering Boron on Mars Means It Could Have Once Supported Life

Discovering Boron on Mars Means It Could Have Once Supported Life

NASA’s Newest Mars Rover Will Focus on Finding Evidence of Ancient Martian Life

NASA’s Newest Mars Rover Will Focus on Finding Evidence of Ancient Martian Life

By Patrick Caughill

Life on Saturn's Moon

NASA Plans to Send a Robot to Hunt for Life on Saturn’s Moon

By Chelsea Gohd

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The UAE Released a VR Tour of the First City on Mars

By Claudia Geib

One Scientist Has a Plan to Send the Building Blocks of Life to Distant Exoplanets

Artist's depiction of a Moon colony.

New Discovery Raises Hope for Human Colonization of the Moon

A rocket heads to Mars.

All the Reasons Why Humans Shouldn’t Colonize Mars, According to Experts

Mark Watney sits on Mars in The Martian.

Author Of “The Martian” Says Colonizing Mars Is a Bad Idea

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The Engine That Could Take Humans to Mars Broke Records in a Recent Test

Oxford Biologists Outline What Alien Life Looks Like

Oxford Biologists Outline What Alien Life Looks Like

By Claudia Geib

We Are Officially Sending a Habitat to Orbit the Moon

We Are Officially Sending a Habitat to Orbit the Moon

Soon, We May Have a Host of Habitable Alien Worlds

Soon, We May Have a Host of Habitable Alien Worlds

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Scientists Want Us to Live in Lava Tubes on the Moon

NASA’s New Ion Thruster Breaks Records, Could Take Humans to Mars

NASA’s New Ion Thruster Breaks Records, Could Take Humans to Mars

Elon Musk Has a Plan to Get Humans to Mars, But Can They Survive?

Elon Musk Has a Plan to Get Humans to Mars, But Can They Survive?

It Turns Out That Our Moon Once Had an Atmosphere

It Turns Out That Our Moon Once Had an Atmosphere

Scientists Just Found Water on Mars Where They Thought None Could Exist

Scientists Just Found Water on Mars Where They Thought None Could Exist

A Massive Solar Storm Just Hit Mars, Causing a Global Aurora and Doubling Radiation Levels

A Massive Solar Storm Just Hit Mars, Causing a Global Aurora and Doubling Radiation Levels

By Claudia Geib

Elon Musk is Officially Sending Humans to Mars in 2024

Elon Musk is Officially Sending Humans to Mars in 2024

To Find Aliens, We Must Think of Life as We Don’t Know It

To Find Aliens, We Must Think of Life as We Don’t Know It

Live: Everything Elon Musk Just Unveiled About His Plans to Colonize Mars

Live: Everything Elon Musk Just Unveiled About His Plans to Colonize Mars

By Kristin Houser

Live: Watch as Lockheed Martin Reveals Their Highly Anticipated Mars Lander

Live: Watch as Lockheed Martin Reveals Their Highly Anticipated Mars Lander

By Kristin Houser

The UAE Is Building a “Mars Science City” to Prepare Humanity for Off-World Colonization

The UAE Is Building a “Mars Science City” to Prepare Humanity for Off-World Colonization

By Patrick Caughill

NASA’s New “Gravity Map” Corrects Fundamental Assumption About Mars

NASA’s New “Gravity Map” Corrects Fundamental Assumption About Mars

By Patrick Caughill

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Chinese Official Says the Nation’s Plans to Explore Mars Are “Going Smoothly”

Stephen Hawking Has Flawed Ideas About Alien Life, According to Former SETI Scientist

Stephen Hawking Has Flawed Ideas About Alien Life, According to Former SETI Scientist

By Christianna Reedy

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NASA May Shift Its Focus From Mars to the Moon

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Elon Musk is Giving an Update on SpaceX’s Mars Plans Next Week

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As Mars Mission Approaches, NASA Works to Assess Risks from Space Radiation