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'Totally Nuts'? Elon Musk Aims to Put a Starship in Orbit in 6 Months. Here's SpaceX's Plan.

SpaceX will soon have a whole fleet of shiny silver Starship prototypes, if all goes according to plan. On Saturday (Sept. 28), Elon Musk gave his annual update about Starship and Super Heavy, the reusable spacecraft and rocket, respectively, that the ...

Weird Black Hole Physics Revealed in NASA Visualization

Black holes on your mind? You're in luck because NASA has a new visualization showing how these immense objects work. Black holes are regions of extremely high density that warp space around them to such an extent that it traps matter and light.

Crowded Space Station: There Are 9 People from 4 Different Space Agencies in Orbit Right Now

It's a busy week at the International Space Station (ISS). With nine crewmembers currently on board, the orbiting laboratory will be unusually crowded until Thursday (Oct. 3), when three of those crewmembers are scheduled to return to Earth. While the ISS is ...

Today's the Last Chance to Send Your Name to Mars on NASA's 2020 Rover

If you want your name to hitch a ride to Mars with NASA's next rover in 2020, you better act fast. Today's the last day to add your name to the more than 9 million that have already signed up. "It's the final boarding call for you to stow your name on NASA's Mars ...

Elon Musk's improbable Mars quest runs through a border town concerned with more than getting to space

Washington Post

Washington Post

BOCA CHICA VILLAGE, Texas — Cape Canaveral this is not. But here, down toward the coast, on a spit of land past the Border Patrol checkpoint, where the Rio Grande meets the Gulf of Mexico, there is a spaceship being assembled off State Highway 4 just ...

NASA Hands Out $43 Million for 'Tipping Point' Tech for the Moon and Mars

NASA is funding more than a dozen technology projects that could aid exploration of the moon and Mars, focusing on issues including cryogenics, energy production and independent mobility. The agency selected 14 U.S. companies to receive a total of $43.2 ...

Expect more interstellar object sightings in our solar system, researchers say

CNN

CNN

(CNN) Astronomers have spotted two interstellar objects to our solar system in the last two years, and that's just the beginning. Researchers believe that in the future, we can expect to see several large objects that originated outside of our solar system zipping ...

Astronomers Debate: How Many Habitable Planets Does Each Sun-Like Star Have?

In the quest for life in the Universe, it makes sense to look at worlds that are similar to the only success story we know of for certain: our planet Earth. Here at home, we inhabit a rocky planet with a thin atmosphere that orbits our star by rotating rapidly on its ...

What Earth's changing climate can teach us about altering the surface of Mars

Phys.Org

Phys.Org

In a rare instance of environmental success, the United Nations has just announced it believes the damage to the Earth's protective ozone layer will be fully restored by the year 2050. This stands in stark contrast to the increasing alarm over the climate ...

NASA Engineers Revived A Discarded, Decades-Old Instrument For A 2020s Moon Mission

NASA engineers are dusting off a 20-year-old science instrument for a series of upcoming Moon landing missions. NASA has contracted with two private companies so far to build landers for a series of uncrewed science missions to the Moon, with the first ...