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Somebody may have tried to "jam" signals at a Chinese space launch center — and it's raising some major red flags.

Chinese Researchers Reportedly Found Possible Sabotage Attempt Near Astronaut Launch Site

By Noor Al-Sibai

China, banned from the International Space Station, prepares to launch three of its astronauts to its own space station, Tiangong, this year.

China Launching Three Astronauts As It Expands Its Space Station

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team published a new study in the preprint journal Arxiv and said humanity could become an interplanetary Kardashev Type I Civilization by the year 2371.

Humans Approaching Intelligence Level Required for Interplanetary Life, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The hunt has begun for the world's first Turkish astronaut — and one of the country's kookiest minor celebrities has thrown his hat into the ring.

Man Who Got Blown Away While Holding Huge Umbrella Announces Plan to Become Astronaut

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new video by YouTuber Tim "Everyday Astronaut" Dodd, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk can be seen ascending to the top of the space company's "Mechazilla" tower.

Video Shows Elon Musk Climbing Mechazilla Tower

By Victor Tangermann

The extensive shelling of Ukraine has been so severe, the invasion can literally be seen from space, a reminder of the devastating scale of the war.

Astronaut Says the Ukraine War Is So Brutal He Could See It From Space

By Victor Tangermann

A space company is getting ready to shoot the cremated remains of 47 people into orbit this week, the ultimate way to say goodbye to a loved one.

Florida Prepares to Shoot Remains of 47 People Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

According to NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Americans get a skewed view of Russians and their culture — which led to some awkward movie nights in orbit.

Things Apparently Got Awkward During Movie Night on the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

After years of delay and troubleshooting, Boeing finally docked its space taxi, Starliner, to the International Space Station with 800 pounds of cargo.

Astronauts Enter Starliner After It Finally Docks To Space Station

By Lonnie Lee Hood

For a brief and shining moment, this week's lunar eclipse allowed for the Milky Way to be incredibly visible here on Earth.

Watch the Milky Way Instantly Pop Into View During Lunar Eclipse

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's a minor civil war brewing amongst government officials over just how much of their UFO intelligence they should turn over to Congress.

There’s a “Secret Society” in the Pentagon Hiding UFO Secrets, Officials Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronauts who flew to the Interational Space Station with private space flight company Axiom were so busy during the mission it disrupted work for NASA.

Whiny Space Tourists Say They Were Too Busy on the Space Station

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Rogozin broadsided Musk for "supplying the fascist forces in Ukraine with military communication equipment" and demanded that he "answer in an adult way."

Elon Musk Alarmed by Threat From Russian Space Program Chief

By Noor Al-Sibai

European Space Agency astronaut on Crew-4 mission posted the first TikTok made in space while on the International Space Station.

POV: You’re Watching the first TikTok Made in Space

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amazing Footage Shows Inside of Space Station When It Fires Its Mighty Thrusters

Amazing Footage Shows Inside of Space Station When It Fires Its Mighty Thrusters

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Russian rocket part, which has spent more than a decade in orbit, suddenly exploded into at least 16 potentially dangerous piece of space debris.

Ancient Russian Rocket Debris Suddenly Explodes in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

European Space Agency astronaut Maurer shows us how to brush your teeth, get ready for bed and sleep aboard the International Space Station.

Please Enjoy This Cozy Video of an Astronaut Getting Ready to Slumber

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, called the "Hero of Russia" won't return to the ISS because he'd have to help Americans with experiments in space.

Cosmonaut Quits Because He Doesn’t Want to “Work for the Americans”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

New Zealand-based space startup Rocket Lab pulled off an amazing stunt on Tuesday: it caught the first stage of its Electron rocket with a helicopter.

Amazing Video Shows Helicopter Catching Falling Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

Canada has snuck a Criminal Code amendment into its 2022 federal budget making it a crime to commit illegal acts — in outer space.

Canada Says Astronauts Are No Longer Allowed to Murder Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

The crew of the latest space tourist mission into space had to figuratively knock on the door of the Russian segment of the ISS to use their bathroom.

The Curse of the Toilet Continues! Bathroom Broke During Tourists’ Stay on ISS

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has released a stunning new video of its Crew Dragon spacecraft firing its thrusters to dock with the International Space Station.,

Beautiful Video Shows Dragon Capsule Making Final Approach to Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have discovered the building blocks of DNA in meteorites that landed in North America and Australia, Reuters reports.

Scientists Find DNA Building Blocks in Asteroids

By Victor Tangermann

A CBS reporter broke the news that the International Space Station had to swerve to miss debris from a satellite blow up by Russia.

The Space Station Has to Swerve to Avoid Debris from Satellite Russia Blew Up

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The world's foremost believer in extraterrestrials has designed a mission to uncover an interstellar object that crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

Harvard Scientist Says Alien Tech May Have Crashed Into the Pacific Ocean and He Wants to Find It

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the first entirely private group of space tourists, the ISS is starting to seem a lot like "Hotel California."

Tourists Have Been Trapped on the Space Station for a Hilariously Long Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former Astronaut Details Quest to Grow Cannabinoids in Space

Former Astronaut Details Quest to Grow Cannabinoids in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Turns out that when the Sun spits plasma at the Earth, it's actually pretty awesome.

Remember When the Sun Shot a Ball of Plasma at the Earth? It Hit and Caused a Beautiful Aurora

By Noor Al-Sibai

Spaceflight Company Mocked for Selling Useless NFTs

Spaceflight Company Mocked for Selling Useless NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A pair of Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station are scheduled to go on a spacewalk to active a 37-foot robotic arm.

Russia Is About to Activate a Robot Arm on the Exterior of the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Things are getting more and more like "Star Trek" every day as NASA transports doctor holograms into space.

Hologram Doctors Visit Space Station For The First Time Ever

By Noor Al-Sibai

Space Perspective just showed off its "Space Lounge" cabin, which is one day meant to ascend into the Earth's atmosphere, hanging from a massive balloon.

High Altitude Balloon Startup Reveals Design of Luxurious “Space Lounge”

By Victor Tangermann

After years, the US government has confirmed Harvard researchers' hypothesis that an interstellar object crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

US Government Confirms That Interstellar Object Crashed Into the Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

Judging by the footage of Pythom engineers running away from a dangerous cloud of smoke, their safety protocols leave something to be desired.

Video Shows Workers Running for Cover as Experimental Rocket Ignites

By Victor Tangermann

A new study published last week in arXiv reports that researchers found an unidentified object nearly 13.5 billion light-years away in the universe.

Scientists Detect Huge Object, Farther Away Than Anything Else Detected in Universe

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Space startup Rocket Lab is getting ready for a truly awe-inspiring and action-packed stunt: catching its Electron rocket mid-air using a massive helicopter.

This Startup Is Catching a Rocket With a Flippin’ Helicopter!

By Victor Tangermann

Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin told Chinese state media that "Soyuz is irreplaceable, because America doesn't have any spacecraft."

Head of Russian Space Program Claims That the US “Doesn’t Have Any Spacecraft”

By Victor Tangermann

Dmitry Rogozin, head of the space program in Russia, has been tweeting about NASA, Roscosmos and the International Space Station again.

Russia’s Latest Statement on the Space Station Is So Strange That Experts Are Divided

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Space Station Tourists Will Only Enter Russian Segment If Invited, CEO Says

Space Station Tourists Will Only Enter Russian Segment If Invited, CEO Says

By Victor Tangermann

While scouring images taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft of Pluto's surface, a team of astronomers made a tantalizing discovery: ice volcanoes.

Tantalizing Discovery Hints at Possibility of Life on Pluto

By Victor Tangermann

In a new photo of the International Space Station, you can actually make out two astronauts clambering on its exterior during a space walk.

Guy Snaps Photo of Space Station So Detailed You Can See Spacewalking Astronauts on Exterior

By Jon Christian

Saturn's beautiful rings are vanishing, scientists say — but it's happening slowly, at least, in a geological or cosmic timescale.

Saturn’s Rings Are Disappearing, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

An extraordinary image from the ESA shows the Sun from much closer than Earth — and spoiler alert, it's pretty incredible.

Scientists Release Stunning Picture Taken Really Close to the Sun

By Jon Christian

Comet Leonard flew a little too close to the Sun and likely broke into a million pieces during its closest approach.

Unfortunate Comet Flies Too Close to the Sun, Disintegrates and Becomes a Ghost

By Victor Tangermann

Beijing hopes to allow tourists to visit its Tiangong space station in the next decade — but it all depends on how many people actually want to do it.

China Says It’ll Let Tourists Pay to Vacation on Its Space Station

By Tony Ho Tran

Russia is reportedly considering withdrawing from diplomacy with the United States — a move that threatens the International Space Station's existence.

The ISS: Possibly the ‘Last Formal Diplomatic Link’ of U.S. and Russia

By Noor Al-Sibai

Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Twitter that thre cosmonauts from Russia aboard the ISS were not wearing blue and yellow to support Ukraine.

Russia Says It’s Just a Coincidence That Its ISS Cosmonauts Are Wearing the Colors of Ukraine’s Flag

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Dmitry Rogozin, the outspoken head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, expressed his excitement of delivering the next crew of cosmonauts to the International Space Station.

Head of Russian Space Program Says ISS Cosmonauts “in a Fighting Mood”

By Victor Tangermann

Three Russian cosmonauts boarded the International Space Station wearing blue and yellow space suits that looked like the colors of the Ukraine flag.

Russian Cosmonauts Board Space Station Wearing Colors of Ukraine Flag

By Lonnie Lee Hood

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet isn't worried about Russia's invasion of Ukraine effecting operations on board the International Space Station.

French ISS Astronaut Says Everything Is Totally Fine Up There

By Victor Tangermann

While falling over themselves to support Ukraine, a space industry conference has removed the name of celebrated Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from its agenda.

Space Conference Censors Name of First Human in Space Because He Was Russian

By Noor Al-Sibai

"Saturday Night Live" star Pete Davidson is going to "space" on board Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket — depending on what your definition of space is.

Pete Davidson Is Only Going to “Space” If You Define “Space” as “Fairly High off the Ground But Nowhere Near Orbit”

By Victor Tangermann

The head of Russia’s space program Dmitry Rogozin responded with a cryptic message to Elon Musk's challenge to fight Putin.

Russian Space Chief Responds to Elon Musk’s Challenge to Fight Putin

By Tony Ho Tran

China's plans for its forthcoming space station are sounding more and more familiar.

Copycats! China Says It’s ALSO Opening Its Space Station to Commercial Activity

By Noor Al-Sibai

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and private space exploration company Blue Origin, didn't like the way his crotch looked in the Blue Origin spacesuit.

Jeff Bezos Was Reportedly Upset That His Spacesuit Didn’t Make His Crotch Look Good

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It's the circle of life: tech bros get millions to fund their harebrained startups, and people on Twitter, in turn, mock their goofy, expensive ideas.

Experts Mock Startup That Aims to Deliver Human Organs — and Pizza — from Orbit

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Gen Z-founded startup wants to transport goods in capsules that travel faster than the speed of sound to space — and those goods include artificial organs.

Weird Startup Proposes Dropping Artificial Human Organs From Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

A bizarre new video from Russian controlled media RIA Novosti showed the International Space Station breaking apart after cosmonauts departed.

Russia Releases Bizarre Video of Space Station Breaking Apart

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, has had enough of sanctions. He's cutting the US off from Russian-made rocket engines.

Russia Mocked for Cutting US Off From Its Outdated Rocket Engines

By Victor Tangermann

Russia's space agency Roscosmos has cut itself off from the international space community, with its head Dmitry Rogozin making a series of increasingly bizarre public communications — and the consequences may now be starting to show.

Bumbling Russian Space Boss Forced to Slash Huge Raise He Gave Himself

By Victor Tangermann

One of the world's first private sector space tourists has vowed not to irritate the actual astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Space Tourists Promise Not to Annoy Astronauts While on Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

The topic of people boning in space has remained a bit of a taboo ever since we, as a species, ventured into the great unknown for the first time.

Scientists Say We Really Have to Talk About Boning in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's outspoken head of its space agency, denied recent reports that hackers had seized control of the nation's spy satellites.

Hackers Claim They’ve Seized Control of Russian Spy Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

New sanctions have Russian leadership scrambling — with Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin turning to China for help. But China may not come to the rescue.

Russia Says It’ll Buy Space Parts From China, But China Says Uhhh Not So Fast

By Victor Tangermann