Space Exploration
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SpaceX's private Fram2 astronauts splash down on Earth, ending historic polar orbit expedition
By Josh Dinner Published
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Astronaut's new NASA portrait is a blast from the past: Space photo of the day
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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SpaceX Fram2 1st polar astronaut mission: Live updates
By Tariq Malik Last updated
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On this day in space! April 4, 1968: Apollo 6 launches final uncrewed Saturn V rocket test flight
By Hanneke Weitering Last updated
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Vanguard 1 is the oldest satellite orbiting Earth. Scientists want to bring it home after 67 years
By Leonard David Published
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Space calendar 2025: Rocket launches, skywatching events, missions & more!
By Space.com Last updated
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The Fermi Paradox: Where are all the aliens?
By Daisy Dobrijevic Last updated
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Human spaceflight
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Astronaut's new NASA portrait is a blast from the past: Space photo of the day
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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'I’d get on in a heartbeat': Starliner astronauts would fly on Boeing spacecraft again despite malfunctions (video)
By Josh Dinner Published
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Watch chilling 1st views of Earth's poles seen by SpaceX Fram2 astronauts (video)
By Josh Dinner Published
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Mission Control 'members only': NASA flight directors don new jacket
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Meet the astronauts of SpaceX's Fram2 mission, the 1st to fly over Earth's poles
By Julian Dossett Published
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SpaceX Crew-9 and Crew-10: Live updates
By Mike Wall Last updated
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Private Starlab space station moves into 'full-scale development' ahead of 2028 launch
By Tereza Pultarova Published
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SpaceX Crew-10 folds traits, hopes into origami crane zero-g indicator
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Tiangong astronauts experiment with AI robot and more to kick off busy year for Chinese human spaceflight (video)
By Andrew Jones Published
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Launches & Spacecraft
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Vanguard 1 is the oldest satellite orbiting Earth. Scientists want to bring it home after 67 years
By Leonard David Published
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SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites to orbit from California
By Mike Wall Published
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SpinLaunch wants to send 250 broadband 'microsatellites' to orbit with a single launch
By Brett Tingley Published
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SpaceX fires up used Super Heavy booster ahead of 9th Starship test flight (photos, videos)
By Mike Wall Published
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Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?
By Tariq Malik Last updated
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Atlas V rocket will launch Amazon's 1st big batch of Project Kuiper internet satellites on April 9
By Mike Wall Published
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US Space Force picks Rocket Lab and Stoke Space to compete for national security launches
By Andrew Jones Published
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Drone pilot who flew over Vandenberg Space Force Base sentenced to 4 months in jail
By Brett Tingley Published
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it'
By Monisha Ravisetti Published
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Missions
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On this day in space! April 4, 1968: Apollo 6 launches final uncrewed Saturn V rocket test flight
By Hanneke Weitering Last updated
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JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it 'Big Wheel'
By Larissa G. Capella Published
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NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts reveal moon mission patch to honor 'AII'
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Extreme magnetic fields near our galaxy's black hole are preventing stars from being born, JWST discovers
By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
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Remember that asteroid everyone was worried about 2 months ago? The JWST just got a clear view of it
By Brett Tingley Published
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Europe's life-hunting ExoMars rover gets new landing platform to replace canceled Russian craft
By Mike Wall Published
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Floating blue-eyed robot keeps watch on the ISS: Space photo of the day
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet aces key 'cruise control' test ahead of 1st flight
By Julian Dossett Published
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Scientists used JWST instruments 'wrong' on purpose to capture direct images of exoplanets
By Victoria Corless Published
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Private spaceflight
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SpaceX's private Fram2 astronauts splash down on Earth, ending historic polar orbit expedition
By Josh Dinner Published
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Watch SpaceX's history-making Fram2 astronaut mission return to Earth today
By Mike Wall Published
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SpaceX Fram2 astronauts see their Florida launch site from space as historic pole-orbiting mission nears its end (video)
By Josh Dinner Published
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SpaceX Fram2 astronauts see 'pure white' Antarctica from polar orbit: Space photo of the day
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Plush polar bear with penguin art floats as Fram2 zero-g indicator in polar orbit
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Katy Perry, Gayle King blast off on star-studded all-female Blue Origin rocket launch on April 14
By Brett Tingley Published
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Feel the burn with this amazing video of a Varda space capsule's plunge through Earth's atmosphere
By Andrew Jones Published
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SpaceX loses Starship rocket stage again, but catches giant Super Heavy booster during Flight 8 launch (video)
By Mike Wall Published
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Hope is all but lost for private asteroid probe in deep space — 'the chance of talking with Odin is minimal'
By Mike Wall Published
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Satellites
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True Anomaly to launch 1st deep-space security missions with autonomous Jackal satellites in 2026
By Mike Wall Published
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Secretive Russian military satellites release mystery object into orbit
By Andrew Jones Published
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Starlink satellites: Facts, tracking and impact on astronomy
By Tereza Pultarova Last updated
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Starlink satellite train: how to see and track it in the night sky
By Daisy Dobrijevic Last updated
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How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse
By Tereza Pultarova Published
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Croatia's 1st satellite captures its first views of home (photo)
By Tereza Pultarova Published
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SpaceX to launch water-hunting moon probe 'Lunar Trailblazer' on Feb. 26
By Leonard David Published
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Earth-observing company Planet signs $230 million deal for fleet of new Pelican satellites
By Mike Wall Published
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SMILE! Europe and China move toward 2026 launch of space weather mission
By Andrew Jones Published
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Search for Life
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The Fermi Paradox: Where are all the aliens?
By Daisy Dobrijevic Last updated
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Massive star explosions may have triggered two mass extinctions in Earth's past: 'It would be terrifying.'
By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
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'Poppy seeds' and 'leopard spots' on Mars could hint at ancient microbial life
By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
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Water in the universe may have formed closer to the Big Bang than previously thought
By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
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Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
By Alexander Cox Published
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DNA-busting radiation from star-killing supernova could have influenced evolution on Earth
By Stefanie Waldek Published
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What's that smell? Astronomers discover a stinky new clue in the search for alien life
By Paul Sutter Published
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Boost for alien hunters? Earth life may not be so improbable, study suggests
By Keith Cooper Published
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Life as we don't know it: Some aliens may need sulfuric acid like we need water
By Kiona N. Smith Published
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Tech
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DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth's atmosphere
By Brett Tingley Published
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Best beginner drones 2025: Easy to fly and affordable models
By James Abbott Last updated
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This spacecraft swarm could spot interstellar visitors zipping through our solar system
By Stefanie Waldek Published
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Star Catcher sends electricity across NFL football field in key space power-beaming test (photos)
By Josh Dinner Published
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This new telescope lens could be a game-changer for space imagery
By Keith Cooper Published
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Watch how SpaceX makes 15,000 Starlink satellite internet kits a day (video)
By Julian Dossett Published
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World's largest digital camera to help new Vera Rubin Observatory make a 'time-lapse record of the universe' (video)
By Victoria Corless Published
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Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet flew in front of the sun so NASA could take this incredible shock wave photo
By Julian Dossett Published
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Scientists discover simpler way to achieve Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance' thanks to AI breakthrough — bringing quantum internet closer to reality
By Peter Ray Allison Published
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More about Space Exploration
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Reference
The Fermi Paradox: Where are all the aliens?
By Daisy Dobrijevic Last updated
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JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it 'Big Wheel'
By Larissa G. Capella Published
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Watch SpaceX's history-making Fram2 astronaut mission return to Earth today
By Mike Wall Published
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