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As SpaceX slashes launch costs, governments are gaining new capabilities, while potentially outsourcing their sovereignty to Musk's private empire.
There are plenty of engineering obstacles, and those can be overcome. But you cannot change the laws of physics, and those matter too.
Some sci-fi aliens are wildly implausible. Others aren’t so far-fetched.
As October begins, thousands of longtime NASA employees are leaving the agency. 4000+ will exit by January 9, 2026, changing NASA forever.
There are real concerns with long-term power generation on the Moon; nuclear could be the answer. But for NASA, will the cost be too high?
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“We are beginning to take our first steps out into the cosmic ocean… and the water seems inviting.”
Featuring SpaceX's "Mechazilla," a first-of-its-kind spacewalk, and more.
Experts answer 10 big questions about the nightmare scenario that could send us back to the pre-Space Age.
Reusable rockets, moon landers, civilian astronauts, and more.
The recent discovery of a large cave on the Moon highlights the importance of caves not just for future space explorers but astrobiology as well.
These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.
Comparing Elon Musk's Mars rocket to NASA's new ride.
Astranis is on a mission to help everyone in the world get online.
Freethink's weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring a stranded space factory, Jeff Bezos' new moon lander, and more.
See the 3 biggest space stories from October 16-22, 2023.
Only nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight. The pathologically cynical always will find a reason to complain.
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it's a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.
Particles behave differently when freed from the force of gravity. A new space factory aims to use this to synthesize pharmaceuticals.
2023 will see the launch of new rockets, the return of OSIRIS-REx, and a mission to Jupiter that could help us find extraterrestrial life.
It is humanity's biggest step yet into the Solar System.
It could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors.
Preventing scurvy is not just a problem in the Antarctic.
Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.
Besides offering an incredibly cool way to get stuff into space, SpinLaunch promises to reduce the cost of a launch by 20-fold.
Can space ever be safe? What about the metaverse?
Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.
Whether NASA likes it or not, humans eventually will be having space sex.