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A Cheaper Form of Spaceflight: Soon, Balloon-Based Rocket Launches Could Be Bringing You To Space

A Cheaper Form of Spaceflight: Soon, Balloon-Based Rocket Launches Could Be Bringing You To Space

By Jelor Gallego

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We Just Figured Out How Charon Got Its Big Red Spot

By Jelor Gallego

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First-Ever Discovery: Complex Organic Molecules Found on Rosetta’s Comet

By Jelor Gallego

China’s Futuristic Balloon Will Send Tourists To The Edge of Space

China’s Futuristic Balloon Will Send Tourists To The Edge of Space

Philae Found! Lost Lander Finally Spotted on Comet’s Surface

Philae Found! Lost Lander Finally Spotted on Comet’s Surface

By June Javelosa

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Life Could Exist On “Rogue Planets” That Don’t Have Stars

By Jelor Gallego

The Observable Universe Is Actually Millions of Light-Years Smaller Than We Thought

The Observable Universe Is Actually Millions of Light-Years Smaller Than We Thought

By Jelor Gallego

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Dust in the Wind: Traveling to the New “Earth-Like” Planet May be A Problem

By Jelor Gallego

Proxima Centauri May Have An Earth-Like Planet Orbiting Around It

Proxima Centauri May Have An Earth-Like Planet Orbiting Around It

Astronomers Confirm Model Of How Stars Go Nova

Astronomers Confirm Model Of How Stars Go Nova

By Jelor Gallego

Extinction Event: Evidence of Supernova Blast Found in Fossils

Extinction Event: Evidence of Supernova Blast Found in Fossils

By Jelor Gallego

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Remarkably Strange Object Found Orbiting Backwards Beyond Neptune

By Cecille De Jesus

Astronomers Discover A Remarkable Planet With Three Stars

Astronomers Discover A Remarkable Planet With Three Stars

By Jelor Gallego

From Earth to Supermassive Stars: A Remarkable Look At The Scale of The Cosmos

From Earth to Supermassive Stars: A Remarkable Look At The Scale of The Cosmos

By Arra Dianne Hifarva

Kepler’s Latest Batch of Alien Planets Reveals 20 ‘Second Earth’ Candidates

Kepler’s Latest Batch of Alien Planets Reveals 20 ‘Second Earth’ Candidates

This Flat Earth: How We Know the Earth is Round

This Flat Earth: How We Know the Earth is Round

By Daniel Barker

Guys, the Perseid Meteor Shower Is Here, and It’s Going to Be Twice as Good This Year

Guys, the Perseid Meteor Shower Is Here, and It’s Going to Be Twice as Good This Year

By Science Alert

Scientists Observe the Collapse of Io’s Atmosphere

Scientists Observe the Collapse of Io’s Atmosphere

By Cecille De Jesus

Get Ready, Space Tourists: FAA Issues License For Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

Get Ready, Space Tourists: FAA Issues License For Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

By Jelor Gallego

Hubble Has Released a Photo of the ‘Final Frontier’

Hubble Has Released a Photo of the ‘Final Frontier’

By Science Alert

Spy Satellite Launched Today, Carrying Classified Payload to Space

Spy Satellite Launched Today, Carrying Classified Payload to Space

By Sarah Marquart

U.S. Training A ‘Space Mission Force’ to Operate Military Satellites in Response to Threats

U.S. Training A ‘Space Mission Force’ to Operate Military Satellites in Response to Threats

By Jelor Gallego

Evidence for Planet Nine: It May Have Knocked Our Solar System Out of Place

Evidence for Planet Nine: It May Have Knocked Our Solar System Out of Place

By Cecille De Jesus

Scientists Assert That Earth is Really Made of Two Different Planets

Scientists Assert That Earth is Really Made of Two Different Planets

By Todd Jaquith

Enormous X-Shaped Structure Discovered At The Center of The Milky Way

Enormous X-Shaped Structure Discovered At The Center of The Milky Way

By June Javelosa

Check Out This 121-Megapixel Image of the Earth

Check Out This 121-Megapixel Image of the Earth

By June Javelosa

Virgin Galactic is Starting Flight Tests for Newest Spaceship

Virgin Galactic is Starting Flight Tests for Newest Spaceship

By Jelor Gallego

China Nears Launch Of Its “Hack-Proof” Quantum Satellite

China Nears Launch Of Its “Hack-Proof” Quantum Satellite

By Jelor Gallego

China has Finished Construction of The World’s Largest Radio Telescope

China has Finished Construction of The World’s Largest Radio Telescope

By Jelor Gallego

Strange Object in the Solar Neighborhood Has Clouds of Water

Strange Object in the Solar Neighborhood Has Clouds of Water

By Arra Dianne Hifarva

Juno Spacecraft Records Jupiter’s “Roar” as it Enters the Planet’s Magnetic Field

Juno Spacecraft Records Jupiter’s “Roar” as it Enters the Planet’s Magnetic Field

By Arra Dianne Hifarva

New Tech Installed on The ISS Set To Form Solar System-Wide ‘Internet’

New Tech Installed on The ISS Set To Form Solar System-Wide ‘Internet’

By Jelor Gallego

Life in Space: Thinner Ice Shell May Mean Life on Enceladus?

Life in Space: Thinner Ice Shell May Mean Life on Enceladus?

By Jelor Gallego

Curiosity Could Soon be Sampling Martian Water

Curiosity Could Soon be Sampling Martian Water

By Jelor Gallego

The (Rather Weird) Era of Virtual Reality Porn is Upon Us

The (Rather Weird) Era of Virtual Reality Porn is Upon Us

By Charmaine Caparas

A Glimpse of Our Future in Space

A Glimpse of Our Future in Space

By Todd Jaquith

New Research Provides Evidence That Pluto Has Liquid Oceans

New Research Provides Evidence That Pluto Has Liquid Oceans

By Cecille De Jesus

Humanity’s Future in Space Depends on Asteroid Mining

Humanity’s Future in Space Depends on Asteroid Mining

By Jolene Creighton

Scientists Just Discovered A New Type of Meteorite

Scientists Just Discovered A New Type of Meteorite

By Jelor Gallego

We Have A Third Van Allen Belt, And It’s Caused By ‘Space Tsunamis’

We Have A Third Van Allen Belt, And It’s Caused By ‘Space Tsunamis’

By Jelor Gallego

China Just Moved One Step Closer To Completing A Global Satellite Network

China Just Moved One Step Closer To Completing A Global Satellite Network

By Jelor Gallego

Luxembourg and Planetary Resources Are Planning to Mine Space

Luxembourg and Planetary Resources Are Planning to Mine Space

By Jelor Gallego

Astronomers: There May Be Two (Or More) Extra Planets In Our Solar System

Astronomers: There May Be Two (Or More) Extra Planets In Our Solar System

By Sarah Marquart

Not Long For This World: Astronomers Find Distant Planet Locked in a Death Spiral

Not Long For This World: Astronomers Find Distant Planet Locked in a Death Spiral

By Jelor Gallego

Engineers Created Tiny, Hovering Reusable Rockets

Engineers Created Tiny, Hovering Reusable Rockets

By Todd Jaquith

Luxembourg Establishes €220 Million Fund for Space Mining

Luxembourg Establishes €220 Million Fund for Space Mining

By Jelor Gallego

Astronomers Detect Hydrogen Signal More Than Five Billion Light-Years Away

Astronomers Detect Hydrogen Signal More Than Five Billion Light-Years Away

By Jelor Gallego

An Alien in Our Solar System: Planet 9 Might Have Once Belonged to Another Star

An Alien in Our Solar System: Planet 9 Might Have Once Belonged to Another Star

By Todd Jaquith

Earth Will One Day Die, But We Could Survive By Moving Here

Earth Will One Day Die, But We Could Survive By Moving Here

By Jelor Gallego

Giant Solar Storms May Have Fueled the Evolution of Life on Earth

Giant Solar Storms May Have Fueled the Evolution of Life on Earth

By Todd Jaquith

India Successfully Launches Tiny Reusable Space Shuttle

India Successfully Launches Tiny Reusable Space Shuttle

By Todd Jaquith

What’s the Biggest Star in the Universe? Depends on Your Definition of “Big”

What’s the Biggest Star in the Universe? Depends on Your Definition of “Big”

By Todd Jaquith

Alien Oceanography: Cassini Reveals a Primordial Ocean of Organics on Titan

Alien Oceanography: Cassini Reveals a Primordial Ocean of Organics on Titan

By Todd Jaquith

Today’s Stars May Evolve Differently Than Stars in the Early Universe

Today’s Stars May Evolve Differently Than Stars in the Early Universe

By Jelor Gallego

The Forgotten Dwarf: Meet the Largest Unnamed Object in Our Solar System

The Forgotten Dwarf: Meet the Largest Unnamed Object in Our Solar System

By Todd Jaquith

Rumors of ‘Alien Megastructures’ Around Tabby’s Star May Be Nothing But Flawed Data

Rumors of ‘Alien Megastructures’ Around Tabby’s Star May Be Nothing But Flawed Data

By Cecille De Jesus

Luxembourg Set to Launch Water-Powered Asteroid Mining Tech

Luxembourg Set to Launch Water-Powered Asteroid Mining Tech

By Jelor Gallego

Watch GoPro Take an Out-of-this-World Ride on a Rocket

Watch GoPro Take an Out-of-this-World Ride on a Rocket

By Sarah Marquart

Pluto Serves up Another Surprise—An Enormous Earth-Like Tail

Pluto Serves up Another Surprise—An Enormous Earth-Like Tail

By Todd Jaquith

Newly Discovered Planets May Host Infrared Based Life

Newly Discovered Planets May Host Infrared Based Life

By Sarah Marquart

Halley’s Comet Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: Here’s How to Watch

Halley’s Comet Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: Here’s How to Watch

By The Conversation

Rare Galaxy Hiding in the Night Sky Captured by Hubble

Rare Galaxy Hiding in the Night Sky Captured by Hubble

By June Javelosa

Nearby Supernova Packed the Same Punch as 100 Million Suns

Nearby Supernova Packed the Same Punch as 100 Million Suns

By Sarah Marquart

Computer Code Sheds New Light on the Early Universe

Computer Code Sheds New Light on the Early Universe

By Jelor Gallego