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The Senate unanimously voted to confirm Biden nominee Bill Nelson, a former Senator and astronaut, as the new Administrator of NASA.

Congress Names Former Astronaut as New NASA Leader

By Dan Robitzski

A production company just announced that it's creating a new series of MMA fights that will happen in space with zero gravity.

Startup Says It Will Launch Fighters Into Space For Brutal Zero-G Combat

By Dan Robitzski

China’s space agency plans to launch two space probes beyond the solar system, which would make China the second country to reach interstellar space.

China Is Planning an Interstellar Space Mission

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA clinical consultant says that sex in space will likely become far more common and even normal as space travel becomes more ambitious.

Sex Positions in Space Will Be Amazing, Scientist Says

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered "The Unicorn," which is what they're calling an extremely tiny black hole closer to the Earth than any other black hole we know about.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Closest-Ever Black Hole to Earth

By Dan Robitzski

China's upcoming space station will have a telescope with 300 times the field of view of the Hubble Space Telescope attached to it.

China’s Space Station Will Have a Hubble-Class Telescope Attached

By Dan Robitzski

An experiment that probed the star Betelgeuse for signs of dark matter didn't turn anything up, but it will help refine future attempts.

Science & Energy

MIT Scientists: Nearby Star Appears to Be Cranking Out Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Stars that are forming near each other actually compete for limited resources like cosmic gasses, according to a bizarre new discovery.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Surprised to Find That Stars Compete With Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

A new Global Risk Assessment report publihsed by the US intellgience community warns against the possibility of China deploying space weaponry.

US Spies Warn That China Is Building Space Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Government scientists ran a wide variety of simulations in order to find the best way to blast a killer asteroid off-course with a nuclear missile.

Science & Energy

The US Government Is Trying to Figure Out the Best Way to Nuke an Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA plans to send a nuclear-powered rocket into orbit by 2025. It can't get there on its own, but once it's in space it could make Mars trips much faster.

DARPA Is Planning to Launch a Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just funded a project that wants to explore the clouds of Venus with a swarm of kite-like spacecraft that glide through the atmosphere.

Science & Energy

NASA Funds Spacecraft “Swarm” to Explore Venus

By Dan Robitzski

Lakes and rivers on Mars likely dried up and reappeared several times over the course of history before they went away for good.

Science & Energy

The Lakes of Mars Likely Dried Up Multiple Times Before Totally Vanishing

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just dropped a 14,000 pound model of its Orion spacecraft into a big pool to make sure that it would hold up during a splashdown.

Watch as NASA Drops a Spacecraft Into a Huge Dunk Tank

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists finally figured out what caused the gigantic spider-like formations on Mars' south pole by recreating the planet's environment in a lab.

Science & Energy

Scientists Finally Explain Mysterious “Spiders” Spotted on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

The gigantic blobs buried within the Earth's mantle, thought to be fragments of the ancient protoplanet Theia, are unfathomably huge.

Science & Energy

Pieces of Alien Planet Buried Inside Earth Are “Millions of Times Larger Than Mount Everest”

By Dan Robitzski

China's space station is preparing for the first crewed missions to launch and assemble its next space station, Tiangong-3.

Chinese Astronauts Prepare To Assemble Space Station in Orbit

By Dan Robitzski

The Solar Orbiter, a NASA and ESA spacecraft that's exploring the Sun, is kept safe from heat and radiation by a coating of charred, ground-up bones.

Science & Energy

NASA’s Sun-Exploring Spacecraft Contains Powdered Bones

By Dan Robitzski

430,000 years ago, a powerful blast of ultrahot, superaccelerated air hit Earth and incinerated a huge area of Antarctica.

Science & Energy

Ancient Antarctica Was Blasted by a Giant Flamethrower From Space

By Dan Robitzski

Uranus is giving off X-rays, according to a new study. Now scientists need to take a closer look and figure out what's actually causing them.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover X-Rays Blasting Out of Uranus

By Dan Robitzski

Mathematician and astronomer Claudio Maccone published more research on how to defend Earth from asteroids with orbital missiles.

Scientist: If Asteroids Threaten Earth, We Should Blow Them Up With Missiles

By Dan Robitzski

The European Southern Observatory published a video that shows what it would be like to leave Earth, plunge into M87, and arrive at its central black hole.

Science & Energy

Amazing Video Zooms All the Way From Earth to First Photographed Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

A new satellite called ELSA-d will snare space junk and drag it to safety with a powerful magnet to help clean up low-Earth orbit.

Just-Launched Spacecraft Will Use Grappling Hook to Destroy Space Junk

By Dan Robitzski

The architecture firm ABIBOO released mockups for a futuristic Martian city that would become a sustainable, off-world home to 250,000 people.

Plans Unveiled for Grand Mars City

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX's Starship does a white-knuckles "belly flop" maneuver during its test hops. Here's what it would feel like to ride inside Starship during it.

This Is What It Would Be Like to Ride Starship During Its Epic “Belly Flop” Maneuver

By Dan Robitzski

Other planets and asteroids might have volcanoes made of metal instead of rock. Scientists tried to model what an eruption actually looks like.

Science & Energy

Here’s What a Metal Volcano Would Look Like

By Dan Robitzski

After the military coup in Myanmar, Japan's space agency halted a joint project with Myanma scientists to prevent it from being exploited by the army.

International Space Station

Satellites Are Stranded on the ISS Because of a Military Coup

By Dan Robitzski

Blue Origin and NASA are developing artificial gravity by rotating the entire rocket and using centrifugal force, kind of like a carnival ride.

NASA and Blue Origin Developing Artificial Gravity Trick

By Dan Robitzski

The International Space Station recently jettisoned a nearly three ton piece of garbage into low Earth orbit. The trash is made up of old batteries.

The Space Station Just Released Its Largest Piece of Garbage Ever

By Tony Ho Tran

Queen Elizabeth II took some time last week to join a Zoom call about Mars, space, and STEM to help celebrate British Science Week.

The Queen Joins WFH Culture, Participates In Zoom Call About Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

In order to protect Earth's biodiversity from global crises, a team of engineers suggests building a massive sperm bank and seed vault on the Moon.

Scientists Are Aiming to Send 6.7 Million Sperm Samples to the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

A meteor rocketed over Vermont and exploded with such a powerful blast that it shook buildings and registered as seismic activity.

Science & Energy

This Meteor Exploded So Violently That It Shook Entire Buildings Below

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists thought the asteroid belt was either the remains of a destroyed planet or the raw materials to make a new one, but the answer is more complex.

Is the Asteroid Belt What’s Left of an Obliterated Planet?

By Dan Robitzski

NASA research reveals that Mars dust is whipping around the inner solar system, blasting spacecraft and even reaching Earth.

Science & Energy

Mars Is Spraying the Earth With Dust Storms, NASA Says

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists took a closer look at the comet-like tail that our Moon often grows and figured out that it comes from sporadic meteor impacts.

Science & Energy

The Moon Has a Huge, Invisible, Comet-Like Tail

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered water and organic matter on the surface of an asteroid, suggesting that impacts could have brought life's precursors to Earth.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Water, Organic Materials on Surface of Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists suggest putting a fish farm on the Moon after discovering that seabass and meagre eggs could survive the rough journey.

Scientists Suggest Farming Fish on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are calling on NASA to rename the James Webb Space Telescope due to Webb's extended legacy and questionable human rights record.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Hated Gay People. Why Are We Naming a Telescope After Him?

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Japanese scientists simulated 4,000 entirely new universes to try and understand what happened in the earliest moments of ours.

Science & Energy

Scientists Simulate Thousands of New Universes to Understand How Ours Began

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists ground up ancient Mars rocks to see if microbes could survive on it. They did, and its biosignatures could help the Perseverance team.

Science & Energy

Scientists Grow Microbes on Actual Mars Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that black holes made of dark matter might be lurking inside neutron stars and eating them from the inside.

Science & Energy

Black Holes May Devour Stars From the Inside, Like Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

If I were dropped in Jezero crater with a pressurized spacesuit, could I defeat NASA’s mighty Perseverance rover in mortal combat?

Could I Defeat NASA’s New Mars Rover in Hand-to-Hand Combat?

By Georgina Torbet

Researchers find clear evidence of a link between the radio waves emitted by certain cell phones and cancer in male rats.

NASA’s New Mars Rover Is Less Powerful Than Many Smartphones

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists just released a map that shows over 25,000 different supermassive black holes in a tiny portion of the night sky.

Science & Energy

Behold This Sky Map of 25,000 Supermassive Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

New NASA research suggests that Mars' dust storms make the planet give off gravitational waves that push its already-scarce atmosphere out into space.

Mars Is Radiating Gravity Waves, Which Is Bad News For Human Settlers

By Dan Robitzski

Russia has tentatively agreed to collaborate on an upcoming lunar base with China, threatening NASA's position as the world's top space agency.

China and Russia Agree to Collaborate on Lunar Base

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency wants astronauts to better represent humanity, so its recruiting more women and people with physical disabilities.

Europe Invites People With Disabilities to Become Astronauts

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers suggest trans-Neptunian objects could still be distributed uniformly in our Solar System, poking a hole in the Planet Nine theory.

Planet Nine Might Not Actually Exist, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that future Martian explorers should be able to grow their own oxygen-producing bacteria without relying on air shipments from Earth.

Scientists Show That Algae Could Grow Using Only Mars Resources

By Dan Robitzski

The United Arab Emirates became the first Arab nation to orbit the Red Planet — and they celebrated by taking a stunning photo of the Martian surface.

First Arab Nation to Orbit Mars Snaps Instagram-Worthy Planet Pic

By Tony Ho Tran

The space company and NASA contractor Nanoracks wants to build greenhouses in space to bolster food security in the face of climate change.

NASA Contractor Signs Deal to Build Greenhouses in Earth’s Orbit

By Dan Robitzski

Flat-earthers still somehow exist in 2021, so one guy wants to send one such conspiracy theorist to space to prove them wrong.

There’s a Crowdfunding Campaign to Send a Flat-Earther to Space

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is barred from collaborating with China and its leadership says it's not concerned about China's ambitions. But experts suggest it should be.

Congress Bars NASA From Working With China. That’s Likely a Mistake.

By Dan Robitzski

China's Tianwen-1 mission is now in orbit around Mars, where it will remain for several months before attempting to land on the surface.

Science & Energy

Chinese Rover Officially Reaches Mars Orbit

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX will launch NASA's SPHEREx mission — an orbital telescope that will probe newly-forming galaxies for answers on how the universe began.

SpaceX Launching NASA Telescope to Find Habitable Alien Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

Last night, SpaceX announced a contest in which one lucky winner will be able to take a multi-day trip to orbit — for free.

SpaceX Announces Contest to Win Free Multi-Day Trip to Orbit

By Jon Christian

A rocket startup called bluShift successfully test-launched a rocket that runs on a proprietary kind of farm-grown biofuel.

Startup Tests Spacecraft That Runs on Farm-Grown Rocket Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

A new study suggests that the Moon's water supply is provided and repeatedly restocked by ions from the Earth's magnetic field.

Study: The Moon’s Water Came From Earth’s Magnetic Field

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA satellite found a bizarre six-star solar system where each of the stars are paired up in gravitationally-bound binary systems.

Astronomers Discover Solar System With Six Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Axiom Space, the company planning to launch the first entirely-private mission into orbit, just announced its four-person crew.

First Entirely-Private Mission to Space Station Names Its Crew

By Dan Robitzski

Steve Jurczyk was catapulted from third-in-line to acting leader of NASA when Biden took office. Here's some of what we know about him and his leadership.

Seven Facts About the New Head of NASA, Steve Jurczyk

By Dan Robitzski

Bolstered by their respective private space industries, China and the U.S. find themselves in a new space race over who sends the first humans to Mars.

The New Space Race Is Putting Boots on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

New acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk says that he's stuck at home, running the entire space agency from his basement.

New NASA Head Says He’s Running Space Agency From His Basement

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists propose that "stupendously large" black holes between the size of a solar system and an entire galaxy could be hiding throughout the universe.

Science & Energy

New Paper Says Black Holes Could Be as Large as an Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski