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Australia Is Finally Getting Its Own Space Agency

Get Ready. Elon Musk is Unveiling Updates About his Interplanetary Spaceship This Friday

Get Ready. Elon Musk is Unveiling Updates About his Interplanetary Spaceship This Friday

SETI Scientist: Seven Places In Our Solar System Likely Host Microbial Life

SETI Scientist: Seven Places In Our Solar System Likely Host Microbial Life

Mercury May Be Even Icier Than We Thought

Mercury May Be Even Icier Than We Thought

OSIRIS-REx Will Pass Within 11,000 Miles of Earth on Friday

OSIRIS-REx Will Pass Within 11,000 Miles of Earth on Friday

China’s Link Space Unveiled Design for a Reusable Rocket

China’s Link Space Unveiled Design for a Reusable Rocket

China Claims They Have Actually Created an EM Drive

China Claims They Have Actually Created an EM Drive

Asteroids Need to Be Mapped If We’re Going to Mine Their Resources

Asteroids Need to Be Mapped If We’re Going to Mine Their Resources

The Best Images Taken by Cassini

The Best Images Taken by Cassini

By Victor Tangermann

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It’s Official: Cassini Just Completed Its Death Dive Into Saturn

By Alexandra Ossola

This Week, We Will Officially Say Goodbye to Cassini. Here’s What We’ve Learned.

This Week, We Will Officially Say Goodbye to Cassini. Here’s What We’ve Learned.

Space Station Laser Link Blasts Broadband from Orbit

Space Station Laser Link Blasts Broadband from Orbit

An In-Depth Look at Where Life Could Be Lurking on Non-Earth Worlds

An In-Depth Look at Where Life Could Be Lurking on Non-Earth Worlds

By Philip Ritchie

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A Spacecraft Thinner Than Human Hair Wraps Up and Destroys Space Debris

By Claudia Geib

Astronomers Detect a Storm of Deep-Space Radio Bursts

Astronomers Detect a Storm of Deep-Space Radio Bursts

By Chelsea Gohd

Russia and China to Sign a Multi-Year Space Exploration Deal

Russia and China to Sign a Multi-Year Space Exploration Deal

By Patrick Caughill

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Scientists Just Found the First Evidence That the Trappist-1 System Might Contain Water

Kardashev Scale: This Is What Life Will Look Like When We Harness the Energy of the Entire Universe

Kardashev Scale: This Is What Life Will Look Like When We Harness the Energy of the Entire Universe

By Sarah Marquart

A Newly Proposed Space Mission Could Unlock the Mysteries of the Universe

A Newly Proposed Space Mission Could Unlock the Mysteries of the Universe

Here Is the Future of Interstellar Spacecraft

Here Is the Future of Interstellar Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers Devise Method for Recycling Astronaut Urine to Make 3D Printing Plastics in Space

Researchers Devise Method for Recycling Astronaut Urine to Make 3D Printing Plastics in Space

Researchers Capture the Best Image of Any Star Ever Taken

Researchers Capture the Best Image of Any Star Ever Taken

The Space Revolution is Being Led by More than Musk and Bezos

The Space Revolution is Being Led by More than Musk and Bezos

Water on Alien Worlds: Ganymede

Water on Alien Worlds: Ganymede

By Brian Koberlein

New Thruster Design Increases Efficiency for Future Spaceflight

New Thruster Design Increases Efficiency for Future Spaceflight

When Will the First Human Space Colony Be Established?

When Will the First Human Space Colony Be Established?

By Christianna Reedy

Small, Water-Powered Satellites Could Be the Future of Space Exploration

Small, Water-Powered Satellites Could Be the Future of Space Exploration

The Implications of Cosmic Silence

The Implications of Cosmic Silence

Ghana Makes Historic Entrance Into the Space Race by Launching the Nation’s First Satellite

Ghana Makes Historic Entrance Into the Space Race by Launching the Nation’s First Satellite

By Patrick Caughill

Milky Way’s Origins Are Not What They Seem

Milky Way’s Origins Are Not What They Seem

New Evidence Suggests Venus May Have Had an Ocean

New Evidence Suggests Venus May Have Had an Ocean

These Satellites Are the Smallest to Ever Reach Earth’s Orbit

These Satellites Are the Smallest to Ever Reach Earth’s Orbit

New Study Shows Half the Atoms in Our Bodies Came From Beyond the Milky Way

New Study Shows Half the Atoms in Our Bodies Came From Beyond the Milky Way

Elon Musk Fuels Speculation With Cryptic Clue About New Vehicle

Elon Musk Fuels Speculation With Cryptic Clue About New Vehicle

By Christianna Reedy

Jeff Bezos Just Commented on His New “Rocket Factory” in a Remarkable Instagram Video

Jeff Bezos Just Commented on His New “Rocket Factory” in a Remarkable Instagram Video

Startup Gets Funding to Clean Up Our Orbital Space Junk

Startup Gets Funding to Clean Up Our Orbital Space Junk

By Christianna Reedy

When Will the First Human Leave the Solar System?

When Will the First Human Leave the Solar System?

By Christianna Reedy

Buzz Aldrin: It’s Time for Humans to Start Looking at Other Planets to Live On

Buzz Aldrin: It’s Time for Humans to Start Looking at Other Planets to Live On

By Chelsea Gohd

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Elon Musk Is Right. ULA Receives $1B From the Government, but Is It a Subsidy?

By Sarah Marquart

The Reason We’ve Never Found Intelligent Life Might be Because We Are Already Going Extinct

The Reason We’ve Never Found Intelligent Life Might be Because We Are Already Going Extinct

New Tech May Temper Space Companies’ Overly Optimistic Timelines

New Tech May Temper Space Companies’ Overly Optimistic Timelines

Scientists from Project Manhattan Wanted to Land on Saturn by 1970

Scientists from Project Manhattan Wanted to Land on Saturn by 1970

These Projects Could Take Us to the Stars in the Next 20 Years

These Projects Could Take Us to the Stars in the Next 20 Years

Our Future in Space: Will Humanity Ever Get to Another World?

Our Future in Space: Will Humanity Ever Get to Another World?

By Todd Jaquith

No, a Huge Asteroid Probably Won’t Wipe out Humanity

No, a Huge Asteroid Probably Won’t Wipe out Humanity

Stephen Hawking: “I Am Convinced That Humans Need to Leave Earth”

Stephen Hawking: “I Am Convinced That Humans Need to Leave Earth”

How Long Would it Take to Travel to the Nearest Star?

How Long Would it Take to Travel to the Nearest Star?

Total Solar Eclipses Are on the Path to Extinction

Total Solar Eclipses Are on the Path to Extinction

After 1,000 Days in Orbit, Here Are the 10 Most Remarkable Things MAVEN Taught Us

After 1,000 Days in Orbit, Here Are the 10 Most Remarkable Things MAVEN Taught Us

Meet the 7 Alien Planets Most Likely to Have Life

Meet the 7 Alien Planets Most Likely to Have Life

By Jolene Creighton

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The UK Is Building a $150 Million Facility Where You Can Train for Trips Into Space

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Futuristic Space Lasers Have Arrived, And They’re Far More Than Weapons

By Patrick Caughill

Stephen Hawking’s Tiny Spacecraft Could Reach Another Solar System in Just Over 20 Years

Stephen Hawking’s Tiny Spacecraft Could Reach Another Solar System in Just Over 20 Years

A New Machine Could Allow Us to Print Life in Space

A New Machine Could Allow Us to Print Life in Space

By Patrick Caughill

Are We Alone? – Calculating the Number of Alien Civilizations

Are We Alone? – Calculating the Number of Alien Civilizations

Scientists Hypothesize That Space Travel Caused This Worm To Grow Two Heads

Scientists Hypothesize That Space Travel Caused This Worm To Grow Two Heads

By Patrick Caughill

The First Space-Based ‘Nation’, Asgardia, Plans to Illegally Store Data Off-Planet

The First Space-Based ‘Nation’, Asgardia, Plans to Illegally Store Data Off-Planet

By Science Alert

The World’s First “Space Nation” Will Attempt a Launch This Summer

The World’s First “Space Nation” Will Attempt a Launch This Summer

Private Companies, Not Governments, Are Shaping the Future of Space Exploration

Private Companies, Not Governments, Are Shaping the Future of Space Exploration

By Kristin Houser

Adventures in Satspotting: Why Are Different Orbits Needed for Satellites?

Adventures in Satspotting: Why Are Different Orbits Needed for Satellites?

What are the Zodiac Constellations?

What are the Zodiac Constellations?

By Brian Koberlein

How Galaxies Evolve in the Cosmic Web

How Galaxies Evolve in the Cosmic Web

The First Private Space Station Will Be Equipped to Manufacture

The First Private Space Station Will Be Equipped to Manufacture

What Exploding Stars Can Teach Us About ‘Thunderclouds’

What Exploding Stars Can Teach Us About ‘Thunderclouds’