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• Investigators haven't ruled out sabotage in mysterious space station leak

  Russian investigators are scrambling to figure out who sabotaged a spacecraft currently docked with the International Space ...

  • Tristan Greene

• University debuts advanced degree program for asteroid mining

  The Colorado School of Mines is offering both a master's and PhD program in asteroid mining. Apparently, it's almost time ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scientists discover 'apparent evidence' for universes beyond our own

  Of all the universes out there, the one you're reading this one in is our favorite. But it might be time to rewrite its origin ...

  • Tristan Greene

• NASA is developing AI to give directions in space

  Before we all join Space Force and go invade Mars we're going to have to figure out how to build bases and navigate in space. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This astrophysicist explains the surprisingly complex concept of ‘nothing’

  Philosophers have debated the nature of “nothing” for thousands of years, but what has modern science got to say about it? In an interview with The Conversation, Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, ...

  • The Conversation

• Researchers believe Earth constantly attracts mini-moons

  Goodnight Moon, goodnight other moon, goodnight other moon, goodnight other moon. It turns out we may have a lot of moons ...

  • Tristan Greene

• India will launch its first crewed space mission by 2022

  On India's 72nd Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the country will send an Indian astronaut to ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• It's a dumb idea to make Trump's Space Force its own military branch

  US Vice President Mike Pence today announced the details of its plan to implement a sixth branch of the military called Space ...

  • Tristan Greene

• VP Mike Pence unveils detailed plans for Space Force

  VP Mike Pence today revealed more info about the Space Force, including what steps we'll need to take even if Congress approves ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• A homeowner's guide to living on Mars

  If you had to live the rest of your life on Mars, what would you miss the most? Figuring out how we could we be comfortable ...

  • The Conversation

• Sorry Elon Musk, but colonizing Mars isn't going to happen

  Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk has a vision for colonizing Mars, based on a big rocket, nuclear explosions and an infrastructure ...

  • The Conversation

• NASA just made thousands of hours of Apollo 11 tapes public for the first time

  When Apollo 11 descended from the heavens, touching down on the moon on July 20, 1969, three brave men became immortals, ...

  • Bryan Clark