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Space

Come along with us as we explore outer space, including everything from NASA to astronomy to aliens.

Why the balloon and UFO affairs are a Sputnik moment

By Jonathan Guyer February 13

How scientists discovered the universe is really freaking huge

By Brian Resnick, Byrd Pinkerton, and 1 more January 19

Elon Musk’s Starlink is only the beginning

By Rebecca Heilweil January 10

NASA’s latest moon mission is the dawn of a new space age

By Rebecca Heilweil and Ellen Ioanes December 11, 2022

The White House’s plan to colonize the moon, briefly explained

By Rebecca Heilweil November 22, 2022

Space is deadly. NASA’s Artemis mission will help us learn how to survive it.

By Neel Dhanesha November 16, 2022

NASA’s rules for astronaut posting: No TikTok, don’t embarrass us

By Rebecca Heilweil November 16, 2022

The FCC wants to regulate space. Have fun!

By Rebecca Heilweil November 3, 2022

The universe is a dangerous place. NASA just showed it’s possible to defend Earth against it.

By Bryan Walsh September 27, 2022

The northern lights could be a lot farther south tonight

By Umair Irfan August 17, 2022

Why Russia is abandoning the International Space Station

By Rebecca Heilweil July 26, 2022

Why scientists really, really want to know if there was ever life on Mars

By Brian Resnick June 29, 2022

If aliens are calling, let it go to voicemail

By Bryan Walsh June 18, 2022

Why Boeing’s successful Starliner test is a big deal

By Rebecca Heilweil May 26, 2022

Flight delayed? Blame a spaceship.

By Rebecca Heilweil May 14, 2022

NASA’s moon dust monopoly is finally ending

By Rebecca Heilweil March 30, 2022

SpaceX and our space junk problem

By Sara Morrison February 16, 2022

A physicist’s lessons about race, power, and the universe

By Neel Dhanesha January 17, 2022

The largest space telescope in history is about to blow our minds

By Brian Resnick January 4, 2022

The space station race

By Rebecca Heilweil December 25, 2021

NASA gave Jeff Bezos money to build his office park in space

By Rebecca Heilweil December 3, 2021

The space debris problem is getting dangerous

By Rebecca Heilweil November 16, 2021

The complicated promise of Amazon’s space internet

By Adam Clark Estes November 3, 2021

How telescopes make the universe self-aware

By Brian Resnick September 29, 2021

SpaceX’s latest mission was an infomercial (for charity)

By Rebecca Heilweil September 20, 2021

Astronomers were skeptical about dark matter — until Vera Rubin came along

By Byrd Pinkerton and Noam Hassenfeld August 17, 2021

Streaming space tourism is the new reality TV

By Rebecca Heilweil August 4, 2021

For hackers, space is the final frontier

By Rebecca Heilweil July 29, 2021

6 questions to consider before launching yourself into space

By Rebecca Heilweil July 25, 2021

Welcome to the age of billionaire joyrides to space

By Rebecca Heilweil July 20, 2021

Richard Branson’s trip to space is about convincing others to come along

By Rebecca Heilweil July 11, 2021

Jeff Bezos has been training for this

By Rebecca Heilweil June 7, 2021

The falling Chinese space rocket is a policy failure

By Alex Ward May 7, 2021

Astronomers are very frustrated with Elon Musk’s satellites

By Brian Resnick April 29, 2021

Watch NASA’s new autonomous helicopter take flight on Mars

By Rebecca Heilweil April 19, 2021

Dark matter holds our universe together. No one knows what it is.

By Brian Resnick March 10, 2021

NASA’s Perseverance rover landed safely on Mars. Now it will look for signs of ancient life.

By Brian Resnick February 18, 2021

A living rain: How one planetary scientist imagines life on Venus

By Brian Resnick September 18, 2020

NASA’s latest rover is our best chance yet to find life on Mars

By Brian Resnick July 30, 2020

It’s time to take UFOs seriously. Seriously.

By Sean Illing July 24, 2020