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Boeing's Starliner may not have reached the International Space Station on its first mission, but astronauts are still excited about the spacecraft.
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Astronauts “Can’t Wait” to Try out Starliner Despite ISS Failure

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk might send a Tesla Cybertruck into space aboard a SpaceX Starship rocket, which he mused on Twitter has "the payload capacity."
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Elon Musk Might Send a Tesla Cybertruck to Space

By Kristin Houser

A team of scientists wants to colonize and populate another world to protect humanity from Earth's eventualy demise or destruction.
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Scientists Are Planning a 1,000 Year Trip to Another Planet

By Dan Robitzski

The companies vying to be the first to launch a space hotel find themselves facing major regulatory and financial hurdles.
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The Race is Heating Up to Open the First Space Hotel

By Dan Robitzski

The ESA officially has budget approval for Hera, a mission to test our ability to prevent killer asteroids from slamming into the Earth.
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Europe’s Space Agency Joins Mission to Deflect Killer Asteroids

By Kristin Houser

The astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) may be far from home, but that doesn't mean they'll miss out on Thanksgiving dinner.
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Here’s What’s on the Space Station’s Thanksgiving Menu

By Kristin Houser

The booster from a Chinese rocket landed on populated settlement on Saturday — and China could have prevented the whole situation from unfolding.
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Chinese Rocket Launch Covers Village in Toxic Debris. Again.

By Kristin Houser

While the idea of building a space colony or terraforming a new planet for humanity to colonize sounds intriguing, it's not a sustainable goal.
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Professor: Terraforming a New Home Planet Would Be Dangerous

By Dan Robitzski

NATO has added space as its fifth operational military domain, meaning the organization will now protect member nations' off-world interests.
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NATO Boss: Space Is Now a Military “Operational Domain”

By Kristin Houser

Pennsylvania State University is currently developing a center focused on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
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Penn State’s SETI Center Could Legitimize Alien Research

By Kristin Houser

In 2018, China completed more successful orbital launches than any other nation for the first time, and it's on track to hold 2019's record, too.
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China Now Launches More Orbital Rockets Than Any Other Country

By Victor Tangermann

Space companies trying to make off-world tourism a thing will likely cause major environmental destruction in the process as spaceflight ramps up.
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The Toll Casual Space Tourism Will Take on the Planet (Updated)

By Dan Robitzski

Several witnesses to the U.S. Navy's 2004 UFO encounter have detailed the immediate aftermath of the event, and that the video was seized by the military.
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Veterans Claim Military Immediately Seized Video of UFO Encounter

By Kristin Houser

Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser seemed to slam Elon Musk in a tweet, but then went on to deny that he was referring to the SpaceX CEO.
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Siemens CEO Denies Slamming “Pot Smoking” Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

By connecting satellites with ultra-thin tethers, engineers could safely steer them back to Earth with a space propulsion system, no fuel required.
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The US Is Testing a Space Propulsion System That Doesn’t Use Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

A Canadian space launch startup has partnered with commercial space services company to develop a way to reuse old rocket parts in space.
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This Startup Wants to Turn Space Junk Into Orbital Hotels

By Victor Tangermann

Space exploration gives humanity an opportunity to avoid the mistakes it's made on Earth, but it's clear that won't happen without robust space law.
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Astrobiologist: Humans Are Going to Ruin Outer Space

By Kristin Houser

When Donald Trump confused the first all-female ISS spacewalk for the first female spacewalk, astronaut Jessica Meir was quick to correct him.
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Watch Astronaut Jessica Meir Tell Trump He’s Wrong, From Space

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.
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New Research: You Could Grow Crops in Martian Soil

By Dan Robitzski

Russia is working on a lunar rover with a wheeled base supporting the body of its humanoid robot Fedor, which has already visited the ISS.
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Russia’s Working on a Lunar Rover With a Humanoid Torso

By Kristin Houser

Nobel Prize-winning astronomer Didier Queloz is "convinced" that aliens exist — and that we could find signs of extraterrestrials before 2050.
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Scientist Wins Nobel Prize, Then Announces Belief in Aliens

By Kristin Houser

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

By Jon Christian

Members of the Thailand-based group UFO Kaokala believe they can talk to aliens through a portal on the Khao Kala mountain.
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Cult in Thailand Claims It Has a Portal to Talk to Aliens

By Kristin Houser

For the first time in history, a startup called Momentus is testing a new in-orbit water plasma propulsion system to maneuver satellites.
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Startup Tests Water Plasma Propulsion in Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Three U.S. military videos that show footage of "unidentified aerial phenomenon" are authentic, according to U.S. Navy statements.
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Navy Confirms That Three UFO Encounter Videos Are Real

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of Dutch YouTubers who flew to the U.S. to attend the Storm Area 51 event were arrested for tresspassing on a government site.
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People Are Already Getting Arrested Trying to “Storm Area 51”

By Kristin Houser

The launch pad for a Japanese rocket inexplicably caught fire, forcing the nation to abort an International Space Station supply mission.
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Japanese Rocket’s Launch Pad Inexplicably Bursts Into Flames

By Kristin Houser

Virgin Galactic plans to start selling tickets to space next year. By 2023, it will launch a shuttlefull of passengers every 32 hours.
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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.
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For the First Time Ever, Astronauts Mix Cement in Space

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Dan Robitzski

Orion Span's proposed space hotel, the Aurora Space Station, might be ready within two years. But its cost jumped $3 million since April.
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Upcoming Space Hotel to Be “Like a Small Cruise Ship”

By Dan Robitzski

Two astronauts spent six and a half hours outside of the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday installing a new commercial spacecraft docking port.
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Astronauts Add Docking Bay For Private Spaceships to Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

A life-sized humanoid robot named Fedor began its journey from Russia to the International Space Station on Thursday aboard a Soyuz rocket.
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Russia Just Sent Its First Robot to Space

By Kristin Houser

Using steam-filled balloons to bring satellites into orbit could prove much cheaper and more efficient than launching rockets.
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These Scientists Want to Launch Satellites From Steam Balloons

By Dan Robitzski

The Kardashev Scale – Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization
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The Kardashev Scale – Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization

By Jolene Creighton

The person behind the Storm Area 51 event is now promoting Alienstock, a music festival set to take place in the Nevada desert the same weekend.
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Storm Area 51 Creator Announces Alienstock Music Festival

By Kristin Houser

Debris created by India's anti-satellite test are still circling the Earth four months later, putting spacecraft and other satellites in danger.
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Debris From the Satellite India Blew Up Still Polluting Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Canada is accepting proposals for ways to remove space junk, the dangerous bits of old satellites and rockets currently orbiting the Earth.
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Canada Wants Your Help Cleaning up Space Junk

By Kristin Houser

During the closest encounter we've ever had with the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe took an impressive picture of the solar corona.
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Here’s the Closest Picture We’ve Ever Taken of the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 satellite has successfully unfurled its massive boxing ring-sized solar sail on Tuesday.
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LightSail 2 Spacecraft Officially Unfurls Massive Solar Sail

By Victor Tangermann

Giving birth in space might cause changes to the human body, including new skin tones and bigger heads, predicts evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon.
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Biologist: Babies Born in Space Might Not Be Fully Human

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk: Starhopper Survived Massive Fireball, Will Fly Again Soon
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Elon Musk: Starhopper Survived Massive Fireball, Will Fly Again Soon

By Victor Tangermann

Nickelodeon is sending a batch of its iconic slime to the astronauts aboard the ISS to be used for experiments, which will be filmed and later broadcast.
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Astronauts on the ISS Are About to Get Slimed — for Science

By Kristin Houser

New computer simulations upend our understanding of how distant space rocks called trans-Neptunian objects formed during the solar system's earliest days.
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Space Rocks Near Neptune Could Reveal the Solar System’s Origins

By Dan Robitzski

To some, collecting resources from other planets or asteroids instead of using up the Earth could be the key to ensuring that we — and our planet — survive.
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Billionaires Are Dead Serious About Moving Factories to Space

By Victor Tangermann

A scientist argued that more dogs should be sent to space, both to serve as companions but also to improve microbiome diversity in orbit.
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Scientists Are Calling for More Dogs in Space

By Dan Robitzski

The most extravagant Fourth of July fireworks can't hold a candle to the stunning cosmic fireworks display the Hubble telescope has captured.
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Stunning Cosmic Fireworks Display Captured by Hubble, Right on Time

By Kristin Houser

A massive new survey is designed to determine how the general public feels about aliens and what humans should do if ET ever reaches out.
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Scientists Want Your Input on Our Alien Response Plan

By Kristin Houser

SpinLaunch, a company that specializes in a space katapult launch system, just signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense's Innovation Unit (DIU).
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Hypersonic Space Catapult Startup Signs Military Contract

By Victor Tangermann

Later this week, NATO officials are expected to announce the a strategy for militarizing outer space as individual nations ramp up weapons programs.
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NATO Plans to Launch Its Strategy for Militarizing Space This Week

By Dan Robitzski

The Indian government just announced a new research agency that will develop new space weapons for any future off-world warfare.
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India Just Announced That It’s Developing Space Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

State-owned media network Russia Today reports that the head of Russian space agency Roscomos Dmitry Rogozin has no interest in hiring SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
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Russian Space Chief: We Would Never Hire Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

Russian scientists want to study reproduction and fertility in space, but cosmonauts are refusing to provide some crucial biological samples.
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Cosmonauts Refuse to Provide Semen Samples in Space

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency just placed a piece of satellite in an extremely hot plasma wind tunnel to melt it into a ball of liquid metal.
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Watch a Satellite Piece Melt Into a Puddle of Metal

By Victor Tangermann

In an apparent dig at Elon Musk, scientists from Russia sent a tiny toy car with a cutout of Roscosmos' Dmitry Rogozin in the driver's seat into space.
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To Mock Elon Musk, Russia Just Launched a Toy Car Into Space

By Kristin Houser

Watch This Breathtaking, Close-Up Clip Of The Surface of A Distant Comet
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Watch This Breathtaking, Close-Up Clip Of The Surface of A Distant Comet

By Victor Tangermann

Beneath the Pacific Ocean, at the point farthest from any landmass, lies a mass grave where used spacecraft and decommissioned space stations go to rest.
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A Look Inside the Deep-Sea Graveyard for Dead Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

On August 13, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will make history by delivering the first ever DJ set from space for promoters BigCityBeats.
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ISS Astronaut Will Deliver First DJ Set From Space

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. in engaged in space warfare, according to CNN's Jim Sciutto, who argues in a new book that Russia and China have already deployed space weapons.
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New Book: The US Is in a “Shadow War.” Space Is the Battlefield.

By Kristin Houser

The European Space Agency is about to test Vega, a new "satellite dispenser" that will cut space launch costs by stacking satellites like Legos.
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Europe Is Starting a “Ride-Share” for Small Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

A massive 164-foot asteroid called 2006 QV89 has a one in 7,000 chance of bashing into the Earth on the morning of September 9, according to the ESA.
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It’s Unlikely, but a 164-Foot Asteroid May Hit Earth in September

By Victor Tangermann

New Experiment Will Test EmDrive That Breaks the Laws of Physics
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New Experiment Will Test EmDrive That Breaks the Laws of Physics

By Kristin Houser

China's rocket launch from a barge in the Yellow Sea on Wednesday makes it just the third nation to successfully complete an offshore launch.
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Watch China Launch a Rocket From Sea for the First Time

By Kristin Houser

Professor Diana Pasulka sees the growing human belief in aliens as mirroring what happens when a religion begins to take shape.
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Professor: Belief in Aliens Could Replace Traditional Religion

By Kristin Houser