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Galactic Collision Could Fling Our Solar System Into Intergalactic Space

By Jon Christian

Astronomers Find First-of-Its-Kind Protostar With a “Warped” Disk

By Kristin Houser

An Astronaut Accidentally Dialed 911 in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Space Travel Doesn’t Seem to Shorten Astronauts’ Lives, Says Study

By Kristin Houser

Cosmonaut: Hole Was Drilled From Inside Space Station

By Jon Christian

These New Planets Are Massive. So Is What They Could Teach Us.

By Jon Christian

FCC Fines Startup for Launching Satellites Without Permission

By Victor Tangermann

Trump Signs Order to Create a U.S. Space Command

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers Just Found a Dwarf Planet Three Times As Far Away As Pluto

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Galactic Is Going to Space. Depending on Your Definition of Space.

By Victor Tangermann

Cosmonauts Hacked Away at the ISS in Search of Sabotage Evidence

By Kristin Houser

Russians Search Exterior of ISS For Signs of Sabotage on Spacewalk

By Kristin Houser

To Heal Injured Astronauts, Experts Want to 3D Print “Skin, Bone and Body Parts”

By Victor Tangermann

Watch a US Spy Satellite Launch Fail Seconds Before Liftoff

By Jon Christian

The Most Powerful Ion Drive Ever is About to Blast a Spacecraft to Mercury

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Galactic Will Send People to Space By Christmas. Maybe.

By Kristin Houser

Hubble Takes Another Incredible Picture After Gyroscope Failure

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists Have a New Idea for Faster-Than-Light Travel

By Jon Christian

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Elon Musk “Will Transform Civilization As We Know It”

By Victor Tangermann

Fisher Space Pen: What Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Will Use to Write in Zero Gravity

By Foster Kamer

A New Gadget Turns Plastic Waste Into Tools Astronauts Need

By Kristin Houser

New AI Is Peering Into the Nuclear Cores of Distant Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Startup Unveils Plan for Autonomous Bots to Build Products in Space

By Kristin Houser

These Lonely Planets Drift Through Space Without Orbiting Stars

By Dan Robitzski

China’s New Space Station Is Called The “Heavenly Palace”

By Victor Tangermann

An Ancient Star Reveals Our Galaxy Is Older Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

What Astronauts’ Tweets Could Tell Scientists About the Psychology of Space Travel

By Jon Christian

Scientists Say New Material Could Hold up an Actual Space Elevator

By Jon Christian

The Wounded Hubble Could Be Back Soon, but It’s on Borrowed Time

By Jon Christian

Virgin Galactic Just Successfully Tested One of Their Spaceplanes

By Chelsea Gohd

Pour One out for MASCOT, the Asteroid-Exploring Lander

By Kristin Houser

Scientists Want to Use a Plasma Beam to Push Space Junk Out of Orbit

By Kristin Houser

Here Are the First Photos Japan’s Robot Landers Sent Back From an Asteroid

By Kristin Houser

A Pair of Japanese Robots (Hopefully) Just Landed on an Asteroid

By Kristin Houser

UK Researchers Just Deployed a Massive Net to Catch Space Debris

By Kristin Houser

The New Render of Elon Musk’s BFR Means It Might Have Some Dope Features

By Sarah Marquart

Service Robots Could Fix Up Orbiting Satellites Like Mechanics in Space

By Kristin Houser

How a Tiny Satellite Fleet Will Track Millions of Animals

By Jon Christian

Two Companies Are Going to Manufacture Optical Fibers in Space

By Kristin Houser

The US Has Tons of Spaceports But Not Enough Launches

By Kristin Houser

Japan Will Soon Conduct The First Test of Elevator Movement in Space

By Kristin Houser

Someone Drilled a Hole in the ISS. Was It A Mistake Or Sabotage?

By Sarah Marquart

Want To Snag A Job Mining Asteroids Someday? You Can Now Get Your Masters In It.

By Kristin Houser

Surprise! Virgin Galactic Just Did A Test Launch of Its SpaceShipTwo Spaceplane

By Kristin Houser

The UK Just Confirmed the Location of Its First Spaceport

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: Private Rocket Launches Are Already Causing Flight Delays

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers Just Discovered Three Planets in an Entirely New Way

By Kristin Houser

A New Trick Lets Us Weigh The Galaxy. It’s The First Step Toward Figuring Out What It’s Made Of

By Dan Robitzski

Theorized Planet Nine Might Actually Be A Cluster Of Little Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

Future Space Tourists Might Have To Train Before Their Trips

Drunk Astronauts: This Beer Is the Beginning of Zero-Gravity Drinking

By Dan Robitzski

The Biggest Health Risk for Lunar and Martian Explorers: Tiny Dust

By Claudia Geib

We Now Have A Working Nuclear Reactor for Other Planets — But No Plan For Its Waste

By Claudia Geib

Startup’s Crazy High-Res Satellite Can See You Pick Your Nose In Traffic

By Dan Robitzski

The US Government Has No Idea What to Do About Small Satellites

By Claudia Geib

Four Notable Things About the Most Distant Star Scientists Have Ever Glimpsed

By Claudia Geib

An Experimental Space Junk Collector Is On Its Way to the ISS

By Claudia Geib

A Fully 3D-Printed Rocket Is Not as Crazy as it Seems. Investors Agree.

By Lou Del Bello

Guess What, Rich People: Meteor Showers on Demand Are a Terrible Idea

By Claudia Geib

There’s A New Kind of Aurora on Earth, And its Name is Steve

By Claudia Geib

What Will Future Space Robots Look Like?

By Chelsea Gohd

The Government Has Plans for an Asteroid-Destroying Spacecraft

By Chelsea Gohd

The European Space Agency’s New Ion Thruster “Breathes” Air

By Chelsea Gohd

Makers of the World’s Largest Airplane Have Extraterrestrial Ambitions