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Musk took the time to reflect on a bizarre and intense number of weeks in an interview with Bloomberg, noting that some of his tweets were "extremely dumb."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Some of My Tweets “Were Definitely Extremely Dumb”

Astronomers have discovered that a massive rotating disk galaxy called the Wolfe Disk dates back to only ten percent of our universe's current age.
Future Society

Astronomers: Ancient “Wolfe Disk” Should Never Have Existed

Congress allocated $125 million to NASA, directing it to develop nuclear propulsion technology that would improve flight speed on missions to deep space.
NASA

NASA Just Got $125 Million to Develop Nuclear Rockets

A team out of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has confirmed traces of water vapor being released above Jupiter's moon Europa.
Science & Energy

Scientists Confirm Water Vapor Above the Surface of Europa

A team of researchers have developed a neural network that can predict if asteroids are on a collision course with Earth.
Artificial Intelligence

Neural Network Says These 11 Asteroids Could Smash Into Earth

The ESA is launching a space telescope called CHEOPS (Characterising Exoplanets Satellite) on Tuesday to study distant planets.
Science & Energy

Europe is Launching a Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Tomorrow

NASA is planning to send its tiny Mars Helicopter to the surface of Mars next summer. And the Helicopter just passed a couple of important milestones.
Mars

NASA Is Testing Its Tiny Mars Helicopter for July 2020 Launch

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell says SpaceX plans to launch a crewed mission in its Crew Dragon spacecraft sometime in May — just two months away.
Science & Energy

SpaceX President: We Plan to Launch a Crewed Mission in May

Boeing's Starliner missed its intended orbit for its first mission and burned up too much fuel to complete its planned journey to the ISS.
Boeing

Boeing’s Starliner Fails First Attempt to Reach Space Station

Astronomers think that a bizarre exoplanet called TOI-849b is the stripped core of a gas giant that for some reason or another lost its atmosphere.
Science & Energy

Bizarre Exoplanet Might Be a Gas Giant That Lost its Gas

Private space agency SpaceX and NASA chose the lucky astronauts, who will be the first to ride SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule into space.
NASA

NASA Chooses First Astronauts to Ride SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft

NASA engineers have captured the first images of the interaction between shockwaves from a pair of flying supersonic aircraft — and they are stunning.
Advanced Transport

NASA’s Stunning Image: Supersonic Shockwaves Smashing Together

New NASA-funded research could lead to a fully-electric jet plane powered by cyrogenically-cooled hydrogen instead of fossil fuels.
NASA

NASA Is Working on Electric Planes Powered by Cryogenic Hydrogen

NASA just released an image of a "cosmic candy cane" in the center of the galaxy. The unusually shaped cloud is likely linked to active star formation.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover “Cosmic Candy Cane” in Milky Way Galaxy

Next year, NASA will launch a small spacecraft that will carry yeast cells into orbit around the Sun. Scientists hope to study how radiation affects DNA.
NASA

NASA Is About to Send the First Living Organisms Into Solar Orbit

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has stepped up to clarify what President Donald Trump meant by his confusing Moon tweet.
Moon

NASA Head: Trump’s Moon Tweet Doesn’t Change Anything

NASA is paying a team of scientists to build an inflatable robot that can move and grasp things by selectively inflating chambers that act like muscles.
Robotics

NASA is Building Inflatable Robot Astronauts

Researchers couldn't find any reason why human hibernation shouldn't be possible — and cracking it could help us explore the cosmos.
Developments

Scientists: Human Hibernation Is Entirely Possible

NASA has funded a project to develop robots capable of autonomously exploring and imaging Moon pits to determine their potential usefulness.
Moon

NASA Funds $2M Study to See if We Could Live in Moon Pits

Kathy Lueders, manager of the commercial crew program at NASA, sees SpaceX's Crew Dragon explosion as a blessing in disguise.
NASA

NASA Commercial Crew Manager Calls SpaceX Explosion a “Gift”