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The Federal Aviation Administration is grounding Virgin Galactic until further notice, following a troubling report about Richard Branson's maiden voyage.

FAA Grounds Virgin Galactic Indefinitely Following Reports of Chaotic Flight

By Victor Tangermann

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space program who repeatedly threatened to abandon the International Space Station, now denies having done so.

Head of Russian Space Program Tells Absurd Lie About Abandoning ISS

By Dan Robitzski

As laid out by reporter Nicholas Schmidle in a revealing piece for The New Yorker, the crew on board Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity spacecraft veered way off course.

Richard Branson’s Rocket Went Way Off Course During Spaceflight

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian official warned that much of the equipment in Russia's part of the International Space Station is expired, and "irreparable failures" may follow.

Russian Official: Space Station Damage May Be “Irreparable”

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is getting real tired of the constant litigation being thrown at him by Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.

Elon Musk Suggests Zapping Jeff Bezos “With Our Space Lasers”

By Victor Tangermann

Astronauts stationed on board the International Space Station threw their own zero-gravity pizza party, as seen in a clip by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet.

Picky Astronauts Refuse to Put Pineapple on Space Pizza

By Victor Tangermann

Russian cosmonauts stationed on board the ISS have discovered several new cracks in the wall of the aging outpost, warning that they could eventually widen.

Russia Says It’s Found Even More Cracks in the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have been able to replicate the atmosphere of one of the solar system’s most enigmatic moons right here on Earth.

Researchers Recreate Titan’s Atmosphere on Earth in Glass Vials

By Tony Ho Tran

Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, just reached out to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Twitter in the most cryptic and ominous way possible.

Russian Space Chief Issues Cryptic Invitation to Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Japan's space agency JAXA has announced that is has successfully demonstrated the operation of a "rotary detonation engine" in space, a world's first.

Japan Tests Exploding Rocket Engine for the First Time in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon subsidiary, is working on life support technologies for a "privately owned and operated low Earth orbit outpost."

Someone Is Secretly Working on “Privately Owned” Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

When SpaceX ships rocket hardware or launches a rocket, it has to shut down the local highway. Now The Boring Company wants to dig a new tunnel.

Elon Musk Wants To Dig a New Tunnel Near his Texas Spaceport

By Dan Robitzski

China is reportedly working on a "ultra-large spacecraft" that is so large, it spans entire miles, according to the South China Morning Post.

China Reportedly Working on “Ultra-Large” Spacecraft That’s Miles Across

By Victor Tangermann

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy has shared an amazing video taken on board the ISS' latest addition, Russia's Multipurpose Laboratory Module or "Nauka."

Russian Cosmonaut Shares Incredible View From New ISS Module

By Victor Tangermann

Massive Asteroid That Could Obliterate Earth to Fly By, Case the Joint

Massive Asteroid That Could Obliterate Earth to Fly By, Case the Joint

By Foster Kamer

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to ruthlessly mock Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander, the company's counterpart to the lunar variant of SpaceX's Starship.

Elon Musk Ruthlessly Butchers Jeff Bezos’ Sad Lunar Lander

By Victor Tangermann

A Chinese military satellite appears to have gotten smashed by a disintegrating Russian rocket, Space.com reports.

Space Junk Reportedly Smashed a Chinese Military Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

Russia's recently docked Nauka module will eventually house a sizable greenhouse capable of growing a number of different plants.

Russia to Grow “Industrial Scale” Veggies in Space Station Greenhouse

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency and NASA's Solar Orbiter just came eerily close to the surface of Venus, snapping a series of glorious pictures.

Awesome Video Shows Spacecraft Whipping Past Brightly-Lit Venus

By Victor Tangermann

India's latest rocket launch ended in critical failure when the third stage failed to ignite, marking the country's first failed launch since 2017.

India’s Latest Rocket Launch Ends in “Catastrophic Failure”

By Dan Robitzski

While the world’s best athletes compete for medals in Tokyo, a different kind of competition happened as ISS astronauts held their own Olympic games.

ISS Astronauts Hold First Space Olympics, Russia Gets Absolutely Destroyed

By Tony Ho Tran

After the harrowing near-tragedy on the International Space Station, Russia will launch an investigation to look for signs of damage.

Russia Will Investigate Whether Space Station Suffered Damage During Incident

By Dan Robitzski

To make room for Russia's new International Space Station module Nauka, the old module Pirs was retired. Video shows it incinerate as it fell to Earth.

Haunting Video Shows Space Station Module Burning as It Falls

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists found that they could power a drone mid-flight using microwaves, and they say the same tech could someday launch spacecraft.

Japanese Scientists Propose Microwave-Powered Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

After a Russian module fired its thrusters and sent the International Space Station rotating off course, a cosmonaut says not to worry.

Russia Says Don’t Worry, It’s No Big Deal That We Threw the ISS Into a Tailspin

By Dan Robitzski

Space Station Astronauts Threw Their Own Zero-G Olympic Games

Space Station Astronauts Threw Their Own Zero-G Olympic Games

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted two space rocks in the asteroid belt that are teeming with organic matter, possibly the building blocks of life on Earth.

Scientists Surprised by Objects of “Complex Organic Matter” in Asteroid Belt

By Victor Tangermann

An unnamed millionaire gave away his $28 million ticket to go to space on board Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft. An 18-year-old will take his place.

Gazillionaire Gives Away $28 Million Ticket to Space Because of “Scheduling Conflict”

By Victor Tangermann

A larger than usual meteor hurtled over Norway on Monday night, lighting up the sky over most of southern Scandinavia.

Video Shows Massive Meteor Lighting Up Entire Night Sky

By Victor Tangermann

Blue Origin has an ingenious plan to cut costs for its spaceflight program that's basically to copy whatever SpaceX does.

Advisers Reportedly Begged Jeff Bezos Not to Copy Elon Musk So Much

By Dan Robitzski

Despite confirming it would abandon the International Space Station eventually, Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos had one last contribution to make.

Russia’s Space Station Module Launch Was Filled With Drama

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos's spaceflight company Blue Origin completed its first crewed mission. Meanwhile, experts debate why the rocket looks so "anthropomorphic."

Scientists Ponder Why Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Looks like a Giant Dong

By Dan Robitzski

Branson's flight was a testament to the years of hard work put in by Virgin Galactic's engineers — but to call it traveling to "space" would be a mistake.

Richard Branson Didn’t Go to Space Yesterday, He Just Cruised Through the Upper Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

It's debatable whether Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos managed to get to outer space today. Was it all a marketing stunt to appeal to the ultra wealthy?

Jeff Bezos Heads Toward Space, Turns Back Before He Gets There

By Victor Tangermann

Retired pilot instructor Wally Funk just made it to the edge of space on board Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft RSS First Step.

82-Year-Old Woman Becomes Oldest Person in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Brutally Mocks Jeff Bezos for Spaceship That Can’t Reach Orbit

Elon Musk Brutally Mocks Jeff Bezos for Spaceship That Can’t Reach Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

The world's first satellite primarily made out of wood is set to launch later this year, and it's bringing a selfie stick to mark the occasion.

Scientists Are Officially Launching a Wooden Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronauts were able to use CRISPR gene editing in space for the first time ever to study microgravity and DNA repair.

Astronauts Use CRISPR Gene Editing in Space for First Time Ever

By Tony Ho Tran

Footage taken from the International Space Station's live feeds and widely shared on Reddit showed some unusual groupings of mysterious lights.

Video Appears to Show UFO Drifting Behind Space Station, But It’s Actually Something Hilariously Boring

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Denounces “Those Who Attack Space”

Elon Musk Denounces “Those Who Attack Space”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers argue that the discovery of phosphine gas in the Venusian atmosphere is a sign of explosive volcanic activity, not life.

Researchers: Signs of Life on Venus Actually Explosive Volcanoes

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say we could deflect a killer asteroid by bombarding it with telecom satellites that are already in orbit instead of bombs.

Scientists: We Could Smash Existing Satellites Into a Killer Asteroid to Knock It Off Course

By Dan Robitzski

BREAKING: Richard Branson Successfully Flies to Space on Virgin Rocket

BREAKING: Richard Branson Successfully Flies to Space on Virgin Rocket

By Tony Ho Tran

The US Military Says China Is Developing Anti-Satellite Weapons

The US Military Says China Is Developing Anti-Satellite Weapons

By Tony Ho Tran

According to Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti, cosmonauts are still trying to identify the source of a leak causing air to escape from the ISS.

Cosmonauts Are STILL Hunting Down the Damn Leak on the ISS, Russian Media Reports

By Victor Tangermann

In a Saturday tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that Starship might be a potential solution to the growing space junk problem.

Elon Musk Says New Spacecraft Will “Chomp Up” Space Junk

By Victor Tangermann

China has announced that two of its astronauts have completed the very first spacewalk outside of the Tiangong station.

Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk Outside New Station

By Tony Ho Tran

Richard Branson just announced that he's going to travel to space on a Virgin Galactic rocket, beating Jeff Bezos to space by nine days.

Mischievous Richard Branson Slams Accelerator, Will Go to Space 9 Days Before Jeff Bezos

By Dan Robitzski

In a planet-scale swing, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk berated ULA CEO Tony Bruno on Twitter this morning — not even a full 24 hours after joking around with him.

Elon Musk Bitterly Feuds With CEO He Was Joking With Literally Yesterday

By Victor Tangermann

Following Virgin Orbit's successful launch of seven satellites earlier this morning, CEO Richard Branson threw a jab at the competition.

Richard Branson Roasts Jeff Bezos Going to Space: “Jeff Who?”

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests in a new op-ed that 'Oumuamua, UAP sightings, and alien scientists could all be connected.

Harvard Professor Says Alien Spacecraft May Have Dropped Sensors

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's new house is a $50,000 prefabricated house that's only about 400 square feet, located at SpaceX's Boca Chica site.

Elon Musk’s New House Is a $50,000 Shack

By Victor Tangermann

In a light-hearted exchange on Twitter, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered to give rocket competitor, the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a leg up.

Elon Musk Offers to Bring a “Few Spare Engines” to Rocket Competitor

By Victor Tangermann

Satellite delivery company Virgin Orbit just flew a Boeing 747 to a lofty height before launching a space rocket strapped to the bottom of one of its wings.

Virgin Orbit Just Launched a Rocket Strapped to the Wing of a 747

By Victor Tangermann

It has been four days since we've last heard from NASA about Hubble's condition after a glitch forced it to halt scientific operations on June 13.

The Hubble Space Telescope Is in Really Serious Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

In a new "vlog" released on Chinese social media, three astronauts can be seen living life on board the country's new "Heavenly Palace" space station.

New Video Shows Chinese Astronauts Hanging Out in Brand-New Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

After a series of tests this week, researchers discovered that the Hubble Space Telescope's backup payload computer was also glitching.

Welp, the Hubble Backup Computer Just Broke Too

By Tony Ho Tran

Orbital Assembly Corporation has unveiled a robot capable of churning out parts for a ring-shaped luxury hotel that's meant to one day orbit the Earth.

Startup Successfully Tests Space Hotel Building Robot

By Victor Tangermann

China's first module of its upcoming space station makes use of ion drives, technology that could vastly cut down the time it takes to travel to Mars.

China’s New Space Station Is Powered by Ion Thrusters

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have recreated the conditions in Pluto's atmosphere in a lab to investigate what's behind the red spots observed by New Horizons.

Scientists Puzzled by Giant Red Patches on Pluto

By Victor Tangermann

NASA still has a few things it can try to revive the Hubble Space Telescope, but there's a chance the observatory is gone for good.

It’s Looking Possible That the Hubble Is Dead Forever

By Dan Robitzski

A video reportedly shows part of China's Long March 2F rocket lying in the middle of the field, leaking what appears to be nitrogen tetroxide.

Video Reportedly Shows Chinese Rocket That Smashed Into Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) simulated what happens when a satellite burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.

Watch What Happens When a Satellite Burns Up in Earth’s Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre space rock called 2014 UN271 will come near Earth within the next decade before continuing along its 600,000-year-long orbit.

A Tiny Planet Will Soon Drift Nearer to Earth Than Since Caveman Times

By Dan Robitzski