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In a recent tweet on Wednesday, president Donald Trump claimed that "NASA was Closed & Dead until I got it going again." The space community wasn't happy.
NASA

"Great leaders take blame and pass along credit."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suggest that the key to settling Mars or the Moon is hiding underground in lava tubes. Now we know the caverns are actually big enough.
Off-World

Natural caverns could help keep interplanetary settlers safe.

By Dan Robitzski

The private equity firm Blackstone just purchased Ancestry as well as its massive databse of customers' genetic information.
Data Privacy

Ancestry — and its trove of genetic data — just changed hands.

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, the shape of our solar system's heliosphere could resemble a "deflated croissant," not a comet with a long tail.
NASA

It almost looks... biological?

By Victor Tangermann

Advocacy groups accuse Democrats Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi of enabling mass surveillance and underminnig attempts to strengthen privacy.
Future Society

Congressman Adam Schiff and other Democratic leaders allegedly derailed privacy negotiations.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists made a version of the game "Go" that's played at the quantum scale with entangled photons rather than black-and-white stones.
Physics

The black and white stones were replaced by entangled photons.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists figured out how new exoplanets could form around a black hole. They've named the theoretical worlds "blanets."
Science & Energy

Because, as we all know, planets orbiting stars are called "slanets."

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have observed an unusual young exoplanet some 150 light-years from Earth that's far more dense for its size and age than thought possible.
Science & Energy

This planet just makes no sense.

By Victor Tangermann

A new video uploaded by SpaceX shows off the company's impressive first full-scale Starship hop in glorious HD. We even got an inside view.
Starship

Now in high definition — and from the inside.

By Victor Tangermann

23andMe released a massive study that traced and revealed new apsects of the transatlantic slave trade through genetic ancestry reports.
Studies

Researchers are exploring a brutal period of history — using genetic code.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just unveiled the winners of its "Exploring Hell" contest, in which it asked for designs for a rover that could survive a trip to Venus.
NASA

The winning design looks like something out of "BattleBots."

By Dan Robitzski

A recently uploaded video shows Japan's 60-foot Gundam robot taking its first tentative steps — despite still missing its head.
Robotics

This robot weighs 25 tons. A single hand is 6.5 feet across.

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates urged Elon Musk to stay in his lane and stop spreading "outrageous" misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic.
Elon Musk

Shots fired!

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists predict, based on current rates of deforestation and resource consumption, that civilization will likely collapse in 20 to 40 years.
Future Society

"We have a few decades left before an irreversible collapse of our civilization."

By Dan Robitzski

Incredible: Watch SpaceX Fly Full-Scale Starship Prototype to 500 Feet
Starship

"Mars is looking real."

By Victor Tangermann

In a news conference, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley told reporters what it's like to ride SpaceX's Crew Dragon back to Earth.
Crew Dragon

"It doesn't sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal."

By Victor Tangermann

Russia may begin a mass COVID-19 inoculation campaign this Autumn, but there's no available data showing that the experimental vaccine works.
Viruses

The country wants to begin mass inoculations later this year, but there's no public evidence the vaccine works.

By Dan Robitzski

According Elon Musk, Tesla is "highly likely" to produce a smaller version of it's long-awaited Cybertruck for the European market.
Elon Musk

"The goal is to kick the most amount of ass possible with this truck."

By Victor Tangermann

Cosmologist Katie Mack says that understanding the ways our universe could theoretically come to an end is "freeing," and makes her feel more connected.
Science & Energy

"There's something about acknowledging the impermanence of existence that is just a little bit freeing."

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists thought exoplanets appeared bright in sky surveys because of reflective lava oceans, but new research shows something else has to be helping.
Science & Energy

Their radiance can't be explained by lava oceans alone.

By Dan Robitzski