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Ben Nowack, a 26-year-old inventor, wants to send satellites with mirrors mounted to their backs into space to allow us to generate solar energy at night.
SpaceX

Former SpaceX Guy Aims to Launch Giant Mirrors Into Orbit to Shine on Solar Panels at Night

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has embarked on its 11th flight on the Red Planet's surface, flying to record heights, reaching altitues of almost 40 feet.
Mars

NASA Mars Helicopter Flies Super High, Spots Rover Way Down on Ground

Apparently the photo of a "door" on the surface of Mars was cropped just so to make it seem like something much cooler than it really is. 
Mars

Bad News! That “Door” on Mars Doesn’t Look Like Much When Zoomed Out

During a House hearing, NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced the agency is requesting more than $11 billion for its Human Landing System (HLS) program.
NASA

NASA Is Asking For an Enormous Amount of Extra Money

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will attempt to land in some of the most challenging Martian terrain tomorrow. Luckily, it's prepared.
Mars

Tomorrow’s Mars Landing Will Be Hardest in NASA’s History

One of SpaceX's top employees said in a conference this week that SpaceX will likely make it to Mars before the NASA Artemis mission does.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s #2 Says Humanity Will Be on Mars Within the Decade

Juno has created a gorgeous infrared map of Jupiter's moon Ganymede during a flyby last month, including the first-ever glimpse of its north polar region.
Moon

NASA’s Juno Probe Creates Stunning Map of Jupiter’s Largest Moon

In a clip uploaded to SoundCloud, we get to listen to "the first audio recordings of laser strikes on Mars," courtesy of NASA's Perseverance rover.
NASA

NASA’s New Rover Just Shot a Rock With Its Laser

NASA scientists are still furiously trying to fix the main payload computer onboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. But they may be closer to finding a fix.
NASA

NASA Says It’s Still Trying to Fix Damaged Hubble

Chinese astronauts onboard China's Tiangong Space Station are reported to have successfully hatched rice seedlings in space.
Off-World

Chinese Astronauts Successfully Grow Rice Seedlings on New Space Station

Sometimes, to achieve great things, you inevitably have to leave a bunch of junk laying around, even if it's eight tons worth.
Mars

Humans Have Already Left a Staggering Amount of Trash on Mars

An economist examined the possible effects the discovery of aliens among our midst could have on global markets.
Future Society

NASA Says It’s Going to Start Studying UFOs

Former NASA astronaut and Axiom-1 mission commander Michael López-Alegría revealed that the "worst" part of his journey to the ISS was the bathroom.
International Space Station

Commander of First Private SpaceX Flight to ISS Reveals Worst Part of Journey

Scientists are worried that spending prolonged periods of time in the microgravity of space could have negative effects on the spines of astronauts.
NASA

NASA Concerned That Space Is Destroying Astronauts’ Spines

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to start peering into deep space later this year, having completed its alignment phase.
James Webb Space Telescope

Huzzah! The James Webb Is Fully Aligned and Ready to Spy on Deep Space

NASA finally managed to shake some of the dust off of the InSight lander's solar panels, buying it at least a few more months of life.
Mars

NASA Saves Dying Mars Lander With Ingenious Hack

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped a picture of a foot-high rock feature on Mars that looks like an alien door or tomb entrance. Cue the conspiracies!
Mars

Mars Rover Spots Something That Looks an Awful Lot Like a Door

This fictitious horror story about the James Webb Space Telescope should give us pause about looking into the final fronteir.
James Webb Space Telescope

This Horror Story About the Webb Telescope Will Chill Your Bones

Cosmic voids in the cosmic web may be connected to dark energy, which causes the universe to expand at an accelerating rate.
Energy

Huge Empty Voids in Universe May Be Generating Dark Energy, Scientists Say

A wobble in the Moon's orbit, coupled with rising sea levels, is about to make coastal flooding a whole lot worse for coastal cities.
Moon

NASA Says a Change in the Moon’s Orbit Will Make Flooding on Earth Worse