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NASA's interim head Sean Duffy told employees during a town hall last week that "sometimes we can let safety be the enemy of making progress."

NASA Head Says It’s Time to Cut Back on Astronaut Safety to Beat China to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars

Why the New York Times Claimed Life Had Been Found on Mars

By Jon Christian

After a long series of Starship failures, SpaceX has now pushed back its latest test flight -- and then pushed it back again.

SpaceX Suddenly Seems Pretty Terrified to Launch Starship After Long String of Super Expensive Explosions

By Jon Christian

One of the driving forces behind the Hubble Space Telescope is sounding the alarm on president Donald Trump's NASA policy

Former NASA Boss Says We May Be Destroying America’s Only Shot at Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

When checking out Uranus, scientists discovered something exciting: that the planet appears to have a long-term partner.

Scientists Say That Uranus Appears to Have a Girlfriend

By Noor Al-Sibai

A trippy fringe theory suggests that time is the source of all physical matter, and space is merely a byproduct.

Time Is Three-Dimensional and Space Is Just a Side Effect, Scientist Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

An eight-foot-across spacecraft flown by a European aerospace outfit came back to Earth and got lost at sea.

Alert: There’s a Lost Spaceship in the Ocean

By Sharon Adarlo

The European Space Agency released images that provide the first clear view of the southern pole of the Sun.

Astronomers Just Took the First-Ever Picture of the Bottom of the Sun

By Frank Landymore

Weeks after her trip aboard billionaire Jeff Bezos' private space capsule, Katy Perry says she's been "battered and bruised" by online trolls.

Katy Perry Says Her Treatment After Bezos Spaceflight Was Horribly Unfair

The NASA Psyche spacecraft, which is slated to visit an absurdly valuable asteroid, has encountered a problem with its thrusters.

NASA Spacecraft Runs Into Thruster Trouble En Route to Zillion-Dollar Asteroid

By Frank Landymore

The widespread backlash and criticism to Blue Origin's all-women trip to "space" came to the surprise of crew members.

Zillionaire Girlbosses Astonished by Backlash to Their Frivolous Trip to Space

By Victor Tangermann

An ominous "Death Star" set to blast out a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on Earth.

Astronomers Investigate Whether Dying Star’s Blast of Deadly Gamma Radiation Will Hit Earth

By Frank Landymore

The discovery of pale, loose rocks on the Martian surface could suggest that Mars was once a much warmer world.

Scientists Just Scanned Pale Rocks on Mars That May Have Huge Implications

By Frank Landymore

Behold the mysterious objects populating the "low surface brightness universe" that the latest radio telescopes are beginning to uncover.

Images Show Entire “Universe” of Circular Structure That Can Only Be Seen as Radio Signals

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.

Scientists Spot Spiral Structure at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

NASA scientists have once again upgraded the odds of the asteroid 2024 YR4 striking our planet in 2032 to over double the initial estimate.

Don’t Freak Out, But the Chances of That City Killer Asteroid Hitting Earth Just Ticked Up Again

By Frank Landymore