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  • NASA's official portrait of astronaut Jim Lovell

    Jim Lovell, Legendary Commander Of Apollo 13, Dead At 97

    As one of America's Space Age space men, Lovell forged a legacy by setting a number of remarkable firsts.

    By Nicholas Werner 4 days ago Read More
  • Artist rendering of NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory OCO-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to launch in 2014, and one of three managed by JPL.

    Trump Admin Wants To Destroy Satellite That Provides Vital Data To Climate Scientists And Farmers

    "Just from an economic standpoint, it makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data."

    By Logan K. Carter 5 days ago Read More
  • The Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars

    NASA's Curiosity Rover Grows More Powerful After 13 Years On Mars

    Happy 13th birthday to the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on August 6, 2012.

    By Nicholas Werner 6 days ago Read More
  • Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy testifies before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 16, 2025 in Washington, DC.

    Sean Duffy's NASA Order To Put A Nuclear Reactor On The Moon Is A Lunar Land Grab

    Duffy's directive orders NASA to prepare a 100-kilowatt nuclear reactor for launch by 2030.

    By Ryan Erik King 7 days ago Read More
  • Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, which was first used to assemble the massive American Saturn V launch vehicles, on Merritt Island, Florida

    NASA Employees Now Subject To Random Searches As Agency Becomes AI-Fueled Police Mini-State

    The measure seems to be out of fear that employees could engage in corporate espionage to secure new jobs before they're laid off.

    By Ryan Erik King 11 days ago Read More
  • The Boeing X-37B returning from a mission

    Space Force's Next Spaceplane Mission Will Test Navigation Without GPS Using Quantum Sensors

    With competition for presence in and around the Moon heating up between the U.S. and China, this kind of system could be a critical capability.

    By Nicholas Werner 11 days ago Read More
  • A rendering of the Oumuamua object

    Scientists Investigate Possible Alien Origins Of Mysterious Object Streaking Through Solar System

    Is alien invasion armageddon coming for us in November? No, probably not. But it's worth thinking about

    By Matthew DeBord 13 days ago Read More
  • A screenshot of the Eris-1 rocket's first test launch

    Australia's 1st Rocket Crashes 14 Seconds Into Maiden Flight

    Rocket science being difficult is more than a comedic cliché. It's as hard as President Kennedy said it was in the early 1960s.

    By Ryan Erik King 13 days ago Read More
  • A helicopter drone launches from a drop pod as part of the Skyfall mission (artist's rendering)

    NASA Wants To Drop Helicopter Drones On Mars To Scout For Manned Landing Sites

    The mission, called Skyfall, would use a capsule to drop down towards the Martian surface, open up before it impacts, and out will fly the six helicopters.

    By Nicholas Werner 14 days ago Read More
  • A rendering of what the Invictus spaceplane may look like

    European Space Agency Is Building A Hypersonic Spaceplane

    There have been several attempts over the decades to build a so-called Single Stage to Orbit (SSTO) vehicle, but thus far, none have succeeded.

    By Nicholas Werner 18 days ago Read More
  • A artist's impression of a AST BlueBird satellites in orbit

    SpaceX Whines To The Feds About Another Company Flooding Orbit With Satellites

    In fairness, SpaceX may have a point. AST SpaceMobile's proposed satellites are the size of a tennis court and would be visible to the naked eye from the ground

    By Ryan Erik King 19 days ago Read More
  • Nasa logo at the Kennedy Space Center entrance in Merrit island, Cape Canaveral, Florida

    NASA Employees Know They Can Only Save Themselves From A Trump-Forced Turndown

    287 current or former NASA employees signed a letter detailing the destructive decisions that threaten to endanger lives and harm the public good.

    By Ryan Erik King 22 days ago Read More
  • The space shuttle Enterprise is backed out of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center on April 19, 2012 in Chantilly, Virginia.

    Smithsonian Fights Back Against $85 Million Space Shuttle Kipnapping To Texas

    When President Trump signed the "Big, Beautiful Bill" into law, he also set aside $85 million for a Congress-authorized heist of the Space Shuttle Discovery.

    By Ryan Erik King 24 days ago Read More
  • Rubin Observatory stands on Cerro Pachón in Chile against a sky full of star trails in this long exposure night sky image.

    In Its First Year, Rubin Observatory Will Gather More Space Data Than All Other Telescopes In History Combined

    In just its first ten hours of activity, a single new observatory discovered 2,104 asteroids, or 10% of the entire astronomical community's annual job.

    By Nicholas Werner 25 days ago Read More
  • UFO fans

    UFO Obsessives Are Not Happy That The Pentagon Has Been Deceiving The Public For Decades

    When conspiracy theories are inevitably debunked, the debunking is quickly counter-debunked, usually with a fresh ratcheting of the whole conspiracy framework.

    By Matthew DeBord 28 days ago Read More
  • A woman standing with a large Martian meteorite

    You Can Buy The Largest Martian Meteorite Ever Found (And A Sick Dinosaur Skeleton Too)

    Out of the 122 lots, the main event is NWA 16788, a Martian meteorite that is the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

    By Daniel Golson 28 days ago Read More
  • Technicians in self-contained atmospheric protective ensemble suits start to conduct initial checks on the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle 1) after its landing Dec. 3, 2010, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

    Trump Megabill Tosses $1 Billion At Space Force's Boeing Spaceplane

    The $1B dedicated to the X-35B is part of a $11.3B budget increase for Space Force amid the White House leaving civilian spaceflight on a shoestring budget.

    By Ryan Erik King 29 days ago Read More
  • A Boeing ESS satellite for the U.S. Space Force orbits the Earth (computer rendering)

    Boeing Is Building Next-Gen Satellites To Control America's Nukes

    These satellites are the sort of thing you really hope that nobody ever has to use. But if the very worst ever happens, you'll really, really want them to work.

    By Nicholas Werner 29 days ago Read More
  • Lockheed Martin's proposed ascent vehicle ascends into Mars orbit (computer rendering)

    Lockheed Martin Wants To Bring Mars Rover's Samples To Earth If NASA Can't

    While originally conceived as an in-house job, NASA has since realized that its version of the plan would cost at least $7 billion.

    By Nicholas Werner 1 month ago Read More
  • NASA's logo atop a stand at a facility

    NASA's Most Experienced Staff Are Taking Trump's Buyouts

    In a classic case of trying to lose weight by cutting off your own head, it appears that over 2,500 employees are preparing to depart the space agency.

    By Nicholas Werner 1 month ago Read More
  • A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying Amazon Project Kuiper is prepared for the launch of the first production satellites from Space Launch Complex 41 on April 9, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

    Disaster Looms As President Trump Plans To Defund Satellite Crash Avoidance Service

    The U.S. Space Force and the entire private space industry are telling Congress this is a recipe for disaster.

    By Ryan Erik King 1 month ago Read More
  • SpaceX has a history of disregarding environmental concerns as it rushes forward with an unprecedented number of launches. The private space company faced scrutiny from the New York Times last year. The newspaper detailed how a Starship launch reduced a nest of a fragile migratory bird species to a yellow smear of egg yolk and destroyed nine nests in total. It wasn't a one-off incident, but a worrying trend at SpaceX's Texas facility. In response, Musk posted on X,

    Air Force Halts SpaceX Hypersonic Cargo Rocket Tests To Save Seabirds From Potential Blasts

    The U.S. Air Force announced last Thursday that it's suspending plans for testing hypersonic rocket delivery systems on a remote Pacific atoll.

    By Ryan Erik King 1 month ago Read More
  • The International Space Station

    NASA Plans To Leave The ISS After 2030 - Here's What Will Come Next

    The ISS has been operational for well over two decades, but its days are numbered. Here's what the plan for human habitation in space is after 2030.

    By Justin Hughes 1 month ago Read More
  • Entirely accurate depiction of the new interstellar visitor

    Object Spotted From Outside Solar System The Same Day As In The Documentary Film 'Independence Day'

    The object is likely a 12-mile wide asteroid or comet from way, way out of town that just happens to be passing through our neighborhood, but you never know...

    By Nicholas Werner 1 month ago Read More
  • Space Shuttle Discovery on display at the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy Center

    Texas Tries To Use 'Big Beautiful Bill' To Steal Space Shuttle Discovery From The Smithsonian

    Texas Senators are trying to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from its current home at the Smithsonian to the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

    By Justin Hughes 1 month ago Read More
  • A rocket launching

    Space Funeral Craft Crashes, Ejects 166 Remains At Sea

    When your space-obsessed loved ones die, you can spend $3,500 to send their cremated remains out into orbit.

    By Amber DaSilva 1 month ago Read More
  • Representative Lauren Boebert

    Lauren Boebert Giggles Her Way Through Faked Moon Landing And A Few Other Top Conspiracy Theories

    Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert isn't going to turn down a chance to do the conspiracy thing, even if she probably thinks it's all an inside joke.

    By Matthew DeBord 1 month ago Read More
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