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Curiosity, the rover that’s been exploring the planet Mars since it touched down on the Red Planet on August 6,…

One of the few non-shitty things to happen in the recently-deceased (see you in hell) year 2020 was that the next…

Have you ever been crossing a busy street and then suddenly dropped down to the tarmac because you thought a passing…

On January 3, 2004, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit began to make history. It touched down on the Red Planet for the…

When humans started flinging things into space, we didn’t really think about the impact it would have down the road,…

SpaceX’s test of their new Starship was very close to a success until the very end, when what looks like a premature…

The American Apollo crewed missions to the moon brought back in total some 840 pounds of pure, uncut, sweet moon-meat…

In what I can confidently promise will be the heaviest metal sentence you’ll read this morning, the European Space…

Yesterday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Crew Dragon capsule with four astronauts to the International Space…

It’s kind of hard to believe that, of all the wheeled rovers and robots that have been sent from Earth to other…

Uh-oh... hold on.... I’m receiving reports that these are not the kind of laws Elon Musk is talking about.

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is currently docked to the International Space Station (ISS) and among…

NASA released detailed plans to return to the moon by 2024 on Monday, landing the next human since the last Apollo…

If you’re American you might be having a tough time over the past couple of months feeling like you live in a…

Elon Musk’s dream of an Earth surrounded by teaming clouds of Low Earth Orbiting satellites, a project known as…

There hasn’t been a splashdown of an American crewed space capsule since the Apollo capsule from the Apollo-Soyuz…

Hopefully in the next few days NASA will be launching their new Mars rover, Perseverance, to the Jezero Crater on…

No longer happy to just be forming a conga line across the night sky, SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are now ruining…

If you’re like most Americans, you have a lot of interest and pride in the space program, but you feel a continual…

Every so often, I like to have a “woah, man” moment. Usually, it can take hours of watching documentaries about…