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Two NASA astronauts conducted an hours-long spacewalk Wednesday morning to install new solar panels on the International Space Station.

Watch Astronauts Venture Outside the Space Station to Install Solar Panels

By Dan Robitzski

Three astronauts successfully entered China's Tiangong space station on Thursday afternoon Beijing time, just hours after launching.

First Astronauts Arrive at China’s New Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

China just launched the first astronauts to its nascent space station, who blasted off aboard a Long March 2F rocket, a sign of its immense space ambitions.

China Just Launched the First Astronauts to Its Space Station

By Jon Christian

Scientists have sent a sample of mouse sperm into the Internation Space Station to study the effects of radiation on mammalian reproduction.

Researchers Sent Freeze-Dried Mouse Sperm to Space to Study Radiation

By Tony Ho Tran

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced it is also planning to take a trip to Venus to get a closer look.

Europe Is Also Sending a Spacecraft to Explore Venus, a Blazing Hellhole

By Victor Tangermann

China is set to launch the first astronauts to its new orbiting space station. A Long March 2F rocket rolled out onto the launch pad on Wednesday.

China Is About to Launch Astronauts to Its New Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne said that he'd love to work with Elon Musk to host the first-ever concert in space.

Rock Band Pleads for Elon Musk to Send Them to Space for Concert

By Dan Robitzski

Rumors are spreading that Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson will attempt to beat rival and Blue Origins CEO Jeff Bezos to space this summer.

Richard Branson Is Reportedly Racing to Go to Space Before Jeff Bezos

By Victor Tangermann

Just two weeks after officially stepping down as Amazon's CEO on July 5, Jeff Bezos is ready for a vacation to the edge of space.

Jeff Bezos Says He’s Going to Space in About a Month

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of Russian cosmonauts spent seven hours early Wednesday morning preparing a docking module of the International Space Station for dismemberment.

Russia Is Getting Ready to Chop an Entire Section Off the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Space junk reportedly blasted a hole in the side of Canadarm2, a robotic arm attached to the International Space Station.

Space Debris Blasts Hole in Space Station’s Robotic Arm

By Dan Robitzski

China has launched the Tianzhou-2 spacecraft from the Wenchang Space Launch Center. Its goal is to resupply their new space station for future astronauts.

China Launches First Cargo Resupply Mission to New Space Station

By Tony Ho Tran

Russia's space agency Roscosmos has announced that it is planning to send a nuclear-powered "space tug" capable of transporting heavy cargo in deep space, all the way to Jupiter in 2030.

Russia Wants to Send a Nuclear-Powered “Space Tug” to Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

Sanders is trying to block legislation that would essentially guarantee a $10 billion payout for SpaceX rival Blue Origins.

Bernie Sanders Just Did Elon Musk a Huge Favor

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers fired tardigrades, also known as water bears, out of a gun to see if they could survive in extreme conditions like outer space.

Scientists Loaded Tiny Organisms Into a Gun and Shot Them At Targets

By Victor Tangermann

Not everybody is enthused about SpaceX absorbing the area surrounding its testing facilities in South Texas to build out its "Starbase."

Residents Furious at Elon Musk for Turning Rural Town Into Growing Spaceport

By Victor Tangermann

Tom Cruise and SpaceX are reportedly partnering up to make a movie that would be the first feature film ever shot in space.

Russia Is Sending Its Own Actor to Space Before Tom Cruise

By Tony Ho Tran

China is getting ready to launch the core module for its Tianhe, or "Heavenly Harmony," space station on board a Long March 5B rocket.

US Intel Chief: Chinese Space Station is a Threat to National Security

By Tony Ho Tran

ESA scientists are trying to make shared and frequently-worn spacesuits less gross to wear for astronauts stationed aboard the International Space Station.

Scientists Are Trying to Make Spacesuit Underwear Less Putrid

By Victor Tangermann

Russia has begun vacuum testing its "Science" module intended to build out the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

Russia Says It’s Quitting the ISS, But It’s Also Testing a New ISS Module

By Victor Tangermann

China is pushing back against all the criticism over the uncontrolled reentry and landing of its Long March 5B rocket on Saturday

China: Actually, Our Hurtling Deathrocket Was Totally Fine

By Dan Robitzski

As a Chinese rocket plummets to Earth after launching a space station module, the US military is taking a bold "wait and see what happens" plan of attack.

Plummeting Chinese Rocket Crashes Into Indian Ocean

By Foster Kamer

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter early Wednesday morning to post a meme about the alternative cryptocurrency Dogecoin, sending it soaring by 25 percent.

Dogecoin Price Fell the Instant Elon Musk Went on “SNL”

By Jon Christian

The disintegrating rocket parts left over from China launching the first segment of its new space station into orbit are now visible from the ground.

Expert: China’s Disintegrating Rocket Debris Spotted in New Video

By Jon Christian

A massive Long March 5B core stage that recently helped launch the first piece of China's space station will soon make its uncontrolled reentry.

Chinese Deathrocket Expected to Crash Land on Saturday

By Tony Ho Tran

China is technically liable for any damages its massive Long March 5B rocket stage could cause after uncontrollably dropping out of the sky.

China Is Technically Responsible for Damages Its Plummeting Rocket May Cause

By Victor Tangermann

An economist examined the possible effects the discovery of aliens among our midst could have on global markets.

Economics Professor: UFOs Could Be a Big Deal For the Economy

By Victor Tangermann

A massive Long March 5B core stage that recently helped launch the first piece of China's space station will soon make its uncontrolled reentry.

Oops, More Huge Chinese Space Debris Is Tumbling Back to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Parker Solar probe made it inside of the far reaches of the Venusian upper atmosphere, picking up natural radio signals.

Scientists Detect Radio Signal Coming From Venus

By Victor Tangermann

A production company just announced that it's creating a new series of MMA fights that will happen in space with zero gravity.

Startup Says It Will Launch Fighters Into Space For Brutal Zero-G Combat

By Dan Robitzski

China launched the first module of its upcoming space station, and video footage shows it drifting away from the rocket as it reaches orbit.

China Releases Video of Space Station Module Entering Orbit

By Dan Robitzski

China successfully launched the first and largest module of its upcoming space station into orbit, where it now awaits the other parts.

China Successfully Launches First Module of New Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

China is getting ready to launch the core module for its Tianhe, or "Heavenly Harmony," space station on board a Long March 5B rocket.

China Launching First Module of New Space Station This Week

By Victor Tangermann

China’s space agency plans to launch two space probes beyond the solar system, which would make China the second country to reach interstellar space.

China Is Planning an Interstellar Space Mission

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is taking potshots at Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos after SpaceX won out over Blue Origin for a NASA contract.

Elon Musk Just Said That Jeff Bezos “Can’t Get It Up”

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA clinical consultant says that sex in space will likely become far more common and even normal as space travel becomes more ambitious.

Sex Positions in Space Will Be Amazing, Scientist Says

By Dan Robitzski

Watch an Astronaut Play Piano on the ISS as the Earth Drifts in the Background

Watch an Astronaut Play Piano on the ISS as the Earth Drifts in the Background

By Victor Tangermann

When French astronaut Thomas Pesquet will jet off to the International Space Station tomorrow morning, he can look forward to some pretty fantastic meals.

Huh, Turns Out Space Food Has Gone From Gross to “Pretty Fantastic”

By Victor Tangermann

When SpaceX launches another four astronauts to the International Space Station, there won't be enough beds to go around.

The Overcrowded Space Station Doesn’t Have Enough Beds

By Dan Robitzski

China's upcoming space station will have a telescope with 300 times the field of view of the Hubble Space Telescope attached to it.

China’s Space Station Will Have a Hubble-Class Telescope Attached

By Dan Robitzski

Russia just showed off the construction of the first base module of its space station, scheduled to be launched into orbit some time 2025.

Russia Shows Off First Module of Its Upcoming Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

DARPA plans to send a nuclear-powered rocket into orbit by 2025. It can't get there on its own, but once it's in space it could make Mars trips much faster.

DARPA Is Planning to Launch a Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of researchers have come up with a fusion-based spacecraft thruster that uses a hydrogen isotope called deuterium as a fuel source.

Scientists: “Direct Fusion Drive” Could Get Us to the Edge of the Solar System in 10 Years

By Victor Tangermann

Perseverance Drops Off Ingenuity Helicopter On Martian Surface

Perseverance Drops Off Ingenuity Helicopter On Martian Surface

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists argue that entirely space-based space elevators could greatly enhance our ability to send payloads into orbit.

Professor Says We Could Already Build a Floating Space Elevator

By Victor Tangermann

China's space station is preparing for the first crewed missions to launch and assemble its next space station, Tiangong-3.

Chinese Astronauts Prepare To Assemble Space Station in Orbit

By Dan Robitzski

A controversial Harvard University-led project called Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment was put on hold to await preliminary test results.

Harvard Halts Plans for Controversial Geoengineering Experiment

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Galactic has unveiled its latest next-generation spaceship called VSS Imagine.

Virgin Galactic Unveils New Spaceship

By Victor Tangermann

Billionaire and space enthusiast Jared Isaacman picked the two other lucky winners to join him on a trip to space on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

A Contest Is Sending These Mere Mortals Into Orbit For Free

By Victor Tangermann

Some government agencies are standing in the way of efforts to catalog reports of "unidentified aerial phenomenon," Politico reports.

Government Sources Say Military Is Holding Back Evidence of UFOs

By Victor Tangermann

Mathematician and astronomer Claudio Maccone published more research on how to defend Earth from asteroids with orbital missiles.

Scientist: If Asteroids Threaten Earth, We Should Blow Them Up With Missiles

By Dan Robitzski

A new satellite called ELSA-d will snare space junk and drag it to safety with a powerful magnet to help clean up low-Earth orbit.

Just-Launched Spacecraft Will Use Grappling Hook to Destroy Space Junk

By Dan Robitzski

Watch This Awesome Video of Clouds Drifting Across the Martian Sky

Watch This Awesome Video of Clouds Drifting Across the Martian Sky

By Victor Tangermann

Senator Bernie Sanders suplexed tech billionaire Elon Musk in a Sunday tweet, excoriating the SpaceX CEO for pouring money into interplanetary space travel.

Bernie Sanders Slams Elon Musk for “Unsustainable” Greed

By Jon Christian

After the military coup in Myanmar, Japan's space agency halted a joint project with Myanma scientists to prevent it from being exploited by the army.

Satellites Are Stranded on the ISS Because of a Military Coup

By Dan Robitzski

The International Space Station recently jettisoned a nearly three ton piece of garbage into low Earth orbit. The trash is made up of old batteries.

The Space Station Just Released Its Largest Piece of Garbage Ever

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists are getting closer to cracking the physics of warp drive, according to aerospace engineering professor Jason Cassibry.

Peer-Reviewed Paper Claims Faster-Than-Light Travel Is Possible

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of physicists are investigating a radical quantum theory of time which posits that there is an asymmetry between time and space.

Is This Startup Working on an Actual Warp Drive?

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists thought the asteroid belt was either the remains of a destroyed planet or the raw materials to make a new one, but the answer is more complex.

Is the Asteroid Belt What’s Left of an Obliterated Planet?

By Dan Robitzski

This Photo of the Sun Is Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen

This Photo of the Sun Is Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen

By Tony Ho Tran

Russian cosmonauts currently stationed on board the ISS have started drilling holes near the infamous crack that formed in the station's Zvezda module.

Russian Cosmonauts Are Drilling Holes in the Walls of the ISS

By Victor Tangermann

Space Tango, a Kentucky-based space startup, is planning to launch its own tiny orbital research platform in a matter of just two years.

Kentucky Startup Plans to Launch Teeny Tiny Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk and SpaceX want to rename Boca Chica Village, the community near its Starship launch site, to "Starbase, Texas."

Elon Musk Wants to Rename a Texas Town “Starbase”

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists have confirmed the existence of a gigantic 1,000 kilometer-across hurricane swirling hundreds of kilometers above the North Pole.

Scientists Observe Eight-Hour “Space Plasma Hurricane”

By Victor Tangermann