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China's Tianwen-1 mission is now in orbit around Mars, where it will remain for several months before attempting to land on the surface.
Science & Energy

Chinese Rover Officially Reaches Mars Orbit

Physicist Mark Buchanan argued we should be grateful for not having made contact with alien civilizations yet in a piece for The Washington Post.
Robots and Machines

Physicist Warns That Contacting Aliens Could End All Life on Earth

NASA built an autonomous robot named BRUIE that may be able to hunt for signs of life on distant ocean worlds like Europa.
Science & Energy

Here’s the Robot NASA Wants to Use to Hunt Aliens on Ocean Worlds

In one billion years, all complex aerobic life on Earth as we know it will eventually die as oxygen levels deplete in our planet's atmosphere.
Science & Energy

In the Distant Future, All Earth’s Creatures May Asphyxiate From Lack of Oxygen

NASA astronaut and mission commander Mike Hopkins will have to sleep in SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule while on board the ISS.
SpaceX

The Space Station Is About to Be so Crowded That One Astronaut Will Have to Sleep in the SpaceX Capsule

New NASA research suggests that Mars' dust storms make the planet give off gravitational waves that push its already-scarce atmosphere out into space.
Mars

Mars Is Radiating Gravity Waves, Which Is Bad News For Human Settlers

In a last-resort move to free up the InSight Mars rover's digging probe, NASA engineers programmed the rover to thwack it with a shovel.
Mars

NASA Fixes Mars Lander By Telling It to Hit Itself With a Shovel

A team of scientsits used a nearby galaxy cluster as a magnifying lens that allowed them to study a much more distant galaxy in ten times the detail.
Science & Energy

Scientists Turn Galaxy Cluster Into Giant Magnifying Lens To Study Even Farther Galaxies

An international team of astronomers have detected a violent eruption of light emanating from a galaxy that repeats itself every 114 Earth days.
Science & Energy

A Black Hole Bites a Chunk Out of This Star Every 114 Days

A new book on Jeff Bezos' career reveals that he's deeply jealous of Elon Musk and SpaceX's success compared to Blue Origin's.
SpaceX

Jeff Bezos Is Reportedly Very Jealous of Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Elon Musk-led space company SpaceX signed a contract with NASA on Friday for supplying the Gateway, a space station orbiting the Moon, with cargo.
NASA

NASA Hires SpaceX to Supply Lunar Gateway Space Station

For the first time in decades, a Canadian soldier has been charged with mutiny for refusing to help with the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
Future Society

Canada Charges Soldier With Mutiny for Refusing to Distribute COVID Vaccines

NASA's exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS captured footage of a comet suddenly exploding in a bizarre phenomenon called a comet outburst.
Science & Energy

Watch NASA’s New Footage of a Comet Exploding

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

Russia Is Sending Its Own Actor to Space Before Tom Cruise

NASA is taking many precautionary measures to ensure that the coronavirus outbreak doesn't have a chance to spread among its employees and astronauts.
Viruses

NASA Worried Astronauts Could Spread Coronavirus on Space Station

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.
Off-World

China Is Planning an Interstellar Space Mission

Researchers were able to cause two plastic trays to hover using only light — opening the doors to research unexplored parts of the sky.
Science & Energy

Scientists Make “Magic Carpet” Hover Using Only Light

A new Global Risk Assessment report publihsed by the US intellgience community warns against the possibility of China deploying space weaponry.
Military

US Spies Warn That China Is Building Space Weapons

Russia is planning to launch a mission to the Moon's south pole — and it's scheduled for launch this October, as Space.com reports. 
Moon

Russia Is Planning a Moon Landing Later This Year

Researchers observed glaciers using NASA satellite datasets and discovered that glacial melt has doubled between 2000 and 2019.
Science & Energy

World’s Glaciers Melting Way, Way Faster Than We Thought