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An app called Spelfie can take a picture of you from a satellite. The resolution won't be good enough to pick yourself out, but it can show for big groups.

Science & Energy

This App Takes a Picture of You From a Satellite

By Dan Robitzski

A new mission plans to determine once and for all whether spacetime is a smooth fabric or a chunky mess of discrete units.

Satellite Mission Will Investigate Whether Reality Is Pixelated

By Dan Robitzski

Over 30 years after it blew up, astronomers finally spotted the cosmic wreckage — a neutron star hidden in a dense cloud of dust — of a famous supernova.

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Astronomers Just Found the Wreckage Cloud From a 1987 Supernova

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists found evidence that ribose, a key sugar in genetic molecules, may have come to earth through the impacts of meteorites.

NASA Says It Found Building Blocks of Life in Fallen Meteorites

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that extended trips into space might cause cognitive decline in astronauts, as the brain changes without the influence of gravity.

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New Research: Astronauts Are Experiencing Cognitive Decline

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists spotted a runaway star traveling across the galaxy so rapidly that it will never return and traced its path back to our supermassive black hole.

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A Supermassive Black Hole Yeeted This Star at 3.7 Million MPH

By Dan Robitzski

Astro Live Experiences is just about ready to send its long-promised, artificial shooting star-launching satellite into orbit.

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A Satellite That Fires Fake Shooting Stars Is Ready to Launch

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists detected a thermonuclear explosion in space, which they believe was caused by a fusion reaction on the surface of a pulsar.

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Scientists Detect Huge Thermonuclear Blast in Deep Space

By Dan Robitzski

India's space agency is waiting for the green light on a planned mission to visit and map out the entire surface of Venus.

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India’s Space Agency Wants to Explore Venus

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine found that stem cells-derived heart muscle cells adapted to microgravity really quickly.

Something Strange Happened to Human Heart Cells in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Geneticist Chris Mason has an unusual idea for helping future astronauts survive the trip to Mars: gene-hack them with tardigrade DNA that blocks radiation.

This Scientist Wants to Gene-Hack Hybrid Humans to Survive Mars

By Dan Robitzski

We're littering an already-crowded space station environment and filling up valuable launch manifests with PR stunts. Knock it off, brands.

Brands Keep Sending Their Pointless Swag to the Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Instead of crafting a complex code to share mathematical and scientific knowledge with aliens, the best way to communicate might be using our lanuages.

Science & Energy

To Chat With Aliens, We Should Beam an Encyclopedia to Space

By Dan Robitzski

An online calculator shows what would happen if a black hole gulped down the Earth or any other objects floating around in space.

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Here’s What Would Happen if Earth Collided With a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

By connecting satellites with ultra-thin tethers, engineers could safely steer them back to Earth with a space propulsion system, no fuel required.

The US Is Testing a Space Propulsion System That Doesn’t Use Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

China has a new plan to send robotic vehilces to the Moon and bring back lunar samples of rocks. It'll be the first lunar retrieval mission since 1976.

China Is Going to the Moon, Coming Back With Moon Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

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

By Dan Robitzski

A new visualization shows just how vast space is by taking people from the size of an astronaut to that of the entire universe.

Science & Energy

This Amazing Visualization Shows You How Big Space Really Is

By Dan Robitzski

Venus is covered in mountains made of crystal, which scientists now think are formed by lava made of "crystal mush" that squeezes through the crust.

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Venus Is Covered in Gigantic Crystal Volcanoes

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists argue that they figured out how to spot wormholes, should any of the theoretical cosmic portals actually exist.

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Scientists Say They Finally Figured Out How to Spot Wormholes

By Dan Robitzski

In a distant star system, two fully-formed exoplanets crashed into each other, leaving an unusual trail of space dust and debris in their wake.

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Two Exoplanets Collided, Leaving a Trail of Planetary Gore

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is working with Caterpillar on Moon mining rocks from the Moon's surface to be used as raw materials on the space agency's planned lunar base.

NASA’s Collaborating With Caterpillar on Moon Mining Machines

By Dan Robitzski

A famous supernova has a cloudy, cotton candy-like appearance. Finally, scientists think they may have an idea of where its bizarre clumps came from.

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Here’s Why the Remains of This Supernova Look Like Cotton Candy

By Dan Robitzski

Space.com delves into the the history of research into the star, and finds that though scientists have made some progress, the mystery remains unexplained.

This Star Appears to Be Older Than the Universe

By Jon Christian

New research found that the soil on Mars and the Moon could feasibly be used to grow plants, suggesting future space colonists may be able to farm crops.

New Research: You Could Grow Crops in Martian Soil

By Dan Robitzski

Image via Pixabay/Kevin Sanderson/Tag Hartman-Simkins

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NASA Engineer Says New Thruster Could Reach 99% Speed of Light

By Jon Christian

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

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This Awful Tabloid Predicts a Killer Asteroid Almost Every Day

By Dan Robitzski

As the International Space Station approaches its inevitable retiring, NASA is encouraging private companies to build their own.

NASA Has a Plan to Encourage Private Space Stations

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered 20 more tiny moons orbiting Saturn, meaning the gas giant is the new record holder within the confines of our solar system.

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Astronomers Just Found 20 More Moons Around Saturn

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists finally managed to directly observe the cosmic web, a vast network of hydrogen gas that connects and feeds galaxies.

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Here’s the First-Ever Pic Of “Cosmic Web” Connecting All Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope are upping the ante: they just announced plans to capture real-time video of our galaxy's central black hole.

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Scientists Plan to Capture a Feasting Black Hole on Video

By Dan Robitzski

New calculations of the universe's outward expansion only make sense if it turns out that some black holes are actually giant blobs of dark energy.

Some Black Holes May Actually Be Blobs of Dark Energy

By Dan Robitzski

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

By Dan Robitzski

While it's an extremely long shot, a SETI researcher says there's a chance that ancient aliens visited our solar system to spy on Earth.

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SETI Scientist: Aliens May Have Left a Spy Probe Orbiting the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

An international team of astronomers spotted what's believed to be the oldest collection of galaxies in the known universe.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Just Found the Oldest Galaxies in the Universe

By Dan Robitzski

A rare glimpse of a supermassive black hole obliterating a star in what's called a Tidal Disruption Event could help astrophysicists understand the cosmos.

Astronomers Just Watched a Black Hole Shred a Star

By Dan Robitzski

If signs of alien life or civilization ever crashed into the Moon, they're likely still up there waiting to be discovered.

Science & Energy

Harvard Prof: The Moon Could Have Caught Alien Organisms, Tech

By Dan Robitzski

It's a vision in which humankind has gone off world, built an orbital economy, and then watched it slowly disintegrate, like your hometown after the factory closed. It's hard to say if it's plausible, but it's emotionally resonant.

In “Ad Astra,” Off-World Colonies Are Crumbling Strip Malls

By Jon Christian

Distant galaxies are being killed off and rendered unable to form new stars. Now, astrophysicists are trying to figure out why.

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Astrophysicists Warn That Entire Galaxies “Are Being Killed”

By Dan Robitzski

There's a small chance that a defunct space habitat collides with a retired Russian satellite on Wednesday, illustrating the threat of space debris.

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A Derelict Space Habitat May Crash Into an Old Russian Satellite

By Dan Robitzski

On Jupiter's moon Io, the strongest volcano in the solar system is likely about to erupt within the next couple of days, according to new calculations.

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A Giant Volcano on One of Jupiter’s Moons Is About to Erupt

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists can finally take a closer look at the big, radioactive bubbles our galaxy's black hole burped out millions of years ago.

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Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Lets out Two Giant, Radioactive Burps

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just traced the path of a runaway star, first spotted in the 80s, back to its original home and learned it got cast away by a black hole.

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A Runaway Star Is Escaping a Black Hole at 1.2 Million MPH

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists discovered that the black hole at the center of the Milky Away appears to be unusually hungry based on how brightly it's glowing.

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Uh Oh: The Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Is “Getting Hungrier”

By Dan Robitzski

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

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Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves From Newborn Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists are starting fires in space to learn more about fuel combustion. They hope it can make engines more efficient here on Earth.

Science & Energy

NASA Is Starting Fires in Space Just to Watch Them Burn

By Dan Robitzski

Virgin Galactic plans to start selling tickets to space next year. By 2023, it will launch a shuttlefull of passengers every 32 hours.

Virgin Galactic’s Plan: Send Tourists to Space Every 32 Hours

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists on board the International Space Station have successfully mixed cement in the microgravity of space.

For the First Time Ever, Astronauts Mix Cement in Space

By Victor Tangermann

General John Raymnd, head of the newly-formed U.S. Space Command, clarified that he'll seek to first deter space combat but would still be ready to fight.

Head of US Space Command: Space Is “Clearly a Warfighting Domain”

By Dan Robitzski

A survey of 14 well-known comets traced them all back to the same point in space and time, suggesting that the comets of our solar system are all related.

Science & Energy

Scientists: Birthplace of All Comets Could Explain Life on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that we haven't found aliens because they're waiting until their solar systems pass closer to ours before making the journey.

New Research: Aliens May Have Already Visited Earth

By Dan Robitzski

On Friday afternoon, India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft will attempt to land on the Moon. If it works, India will be the fourth country to ever do so.

Science & Energy

India Is About to Attempt a Moon Landing

By Dan Robitzski

A new attempt to explain the mysterious giant bubbles that sandwich our galaxy fell short; astronomers couldn't reconcile the data with any hypotheses.

Science & Energy

Scientists Baffled by Giant Bubbles Sandwiching Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

A software company is making construction robots that learn to excavate and assemble structures by imitating human movements and may someday work in space.

Robots Could Build Martian Settlements by Imitating Humans on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

The Gateway Foundation wants to build a luxury orbital space hotel based on plans drawn up by NAzi scientist Wernher von Braun in the 1950s.

A Startup Wants to Launch a Space Hotel Named After a Nazi

By Dan Robitzski

Shortly after SpaceX's Starhopper completed its test launch last week, Elon Musk speculated that the next iteration would be twice as wide.

Elon Musk: “Next Gen” Craft Could Be Twice the Size of Starship

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found that lab-grown mini-brains on the International Space Station are giving off brain waves, potentially posing a new ethical dilemma.

Scientists Grew Tiny Human Brains and Hooked Them up to Robots

By Dan Robitzski

After finding that simulated zero gravity killed off cancer cells, a team of doctors wants to send samples up to the International Space Station.

Doctors to Test Fringe Theory That Zero Gravity Kills Cancer Cells

By Dan Robitzski

NASA finally pieced together the James Webb Space Telescope, connecting the telescope piece with the spacecraft piece. Now it just needs to get it in orbit.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Finally Assembled The James Webb Space Telescope

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists think they've detected a bizarre black hole that, at 100 times the mass of our sun, is twice the theoretical size limit.

Science & Energy

Spotted: A Black Hole That Shouldn’t Be Physically Possible

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon is considering launching a network of satellites that would be able to identify and track any acts of aggression in outer space.

The Pentagon Wants Sentinel Satellites to Deter Space Warfare

By Dan Robitzski

A newly proposed type of space elevator called the Spaceline could theoretically be built out of materials that exist today, hinting at easier space travel.

These Researchers Want to Run a Cable From the Earth to the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

After a failed docking attempt over the weekend, Russia's humanoid robot Fedor is now on board the International Space Station.

Russia Just Sent a Gun-Toting, Spacewalking Robot to the ISS

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that other exoplanets could feasibly serve as a better host for life than Earth does, if they fit certain criteria.

Science & Energy

Earth Might Not Be the Most Hospitable Planet out There

By Dan Robitzski