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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took a break from studying the surface of Mars to look at the clouds floating in the Red Planet's atmosphere.
Off-World

See Pics of Martian Clouds Snapped From the Planet’s Surface

NASA is offering the public something truly unique: an opportunity to send thier names to the surface of Mars, "stenciled on chips."
Mars

You Can Now Send a Souvenir With Your Name on it to Mars

A new paper argues that the “primary colonists” of Mars should be microbes like the ones which support life on Earth in order to terraform the Red Planet.
Science & Energy

Contaminating Mars With Microbes Could Kickstart Colonization

A Dutch astronomer and satellite tracker Ralf Vanderberg just spotted something extraordinary and rare: the U.S. Air Force's top-secret X-37B space plane.
Space

Amateur Astronomer Spots US Air Force Space Plane Lurking in Orbit

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk uploaded a video on Tuesday showing the cavernous and unfinished inside of the space company's gargantuan Starship prototype.
Starship

Elon Musk Releases Video Showing Interior of Starship Prototype

A Puerto Rican startup called Instarz plans on building a self-assembling, self-sustaining Moon habitat that can support eight astronauts for a year.
Moon

Puerto Rican Startup Plans to Launch Self-Sustaining Moon Habitat

NASA announced Tuesday that the Kepler Space Telescope, which has been orbiting Earth and looking for exoplanets since 2009, ran out of fuel. RIP.
NASA

NASA: Kepler Space Telescope is Out of Fuel

For the first time, astronomers recorded the gravitational waves given off by the formation of a new black hole.
Science & Energy

Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves From Newborn Black Hole

To feed colonists on Mars, we'll need to find a way to produce food there — and a team of researchers thinkgs it knows the best wait to go about it.
Mars

Here’s How We Could Feed a Million People on Mars

NASA posted a video to its Commercial Crew Twitter account of astronauts wearing SpaceX spacesuits while inside a Crew Dragon spacecraft.
NASA

NASA Astronauts Put SpaceX Spacesuits to the Test

Scientists who work on extraterrestrial-seeking projects like SETI report a stigma within science that gets their work dismissed and funding killed.
Science & Energy

Scientists Are Terrified of SETI Research

A tabloid called Express publishes at least one article about killer asteroids almost every single day. Futurism investigates!
Science & Energy

This Awful Tabloid Predicts a Killer Asteroid Almost Every Day

Henk Rogers wants to build a lunar spaceport so that all the billionaires building shiny new rockets actually have someplace to land.
Science & Energy

The Guy Who Popularized “Tetris” Wants to Build a Lunar Spaceport

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has big plans for the Starship: a "Super Heavy" variant will feature up to 41 Raptor engines, 35 of which will be used as a booster.
Starship

Elon Musk: Starship Super Heavy Will Have 41 Raptor Engines

Astrobiologist Samantha Rolfe says that Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars are more of a "moral catastrophe" than a noble aspiration.
Starship

Astrobiologist: Elon Musk’s Starship Is a “Moral Catastrophe”

SpaceX just posted dramatic footage of its commercial space shuttle Crew Dragon undergoing hundreds of rigorous tests of its emergency abort system.
Crew Dragon

Watch SpaceX Test Its Crew Dragon’s Escape System

After three years of tests, China is opening up its gigantic 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) to astronomers from all over the world.
Science & Energy

China Opens Up Ginormous Alien-Hunting Telescope

Astronauts on the International Space Station played a quick game of low-gravity baseball in orbit to promote the World Series.
International Space Station

Watch Astronauts Play Baseball on the International Space Station

Newly-shared pictures of the cotton plant China briefly grew on the Moon shows that it fared a little bit better than previously thought before freezing.
Science & Energy

China Shares Photos of Its Doomed Moon Plant

The launch pad for a Japanese rocket inexplicably caught fire, forcing the nation to abort an International Space Station supply mission.
Off-World

Japanese Rocket’s Launch Pad Inexplicably Bursts Into Flames