NASA's new Psyche mission will take us to a metal asteroid for the first time
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Here is a possible timeline for the emergence of a true space age over the next 20 years.
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A rare comet is zooming past Earth right now, and you should be able to see it with binoculars
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China's ambitious and fast-growing space program is targeting a landing on the dark side of the moon by 2018, and reaching Mars before the end of the decade.
The New Year is upon us at last, so let's all celebrate, make resolutions, and firmly kick 2016's ass out the door.
The New Year is upon us at last, so let's all celebrate, make resolutions, and firmly kick 2016's ass out the door.
The New Year is upon us at last, so let's all celebrate, make resolutions, and firmly kick 2016's ass out the door.
The New Year is upon us at last, so let's all celebrate, make resolutions, and firmly kick 2016's ass out the door.
The New Year is upon us at last, so let's all celebrate, make resolutions, and firmly kick 2016's ass out the door.
The New Year is upon us at last, so let's all celebrate, make resolutions, and firmly kick 2016's ass out the door.
The New Year is upon us at last, so let's all celebrate, make resolutions, and firmly kick 2016's ass out the door.
The country has also vowed to land a space probe on the far side of the moon by 2020
Jerry Pournelle is a famed science fiction author who also had an interesting technology career
The Google Lunar XPrize challenges privately funded teams to be the first to land on the moon, travel 500 meters, and send back pictures, for a $20 million jackpot.
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The teams will use the same PSLV rocket
German Xprize team sets its sights on a vintage moon buggy
There is a core value of modern Scientism that claims that earth is doomed and the only future for man lies in outer space. Nobody else believes this, but the Technocrats are very happy to use taxpayer money to fund their crackpot ambitions. ? TN E
Suspended animation may help us survive interplanetary travel, but it won't keep us alive for 120 years
"The look they are going to unveil in the next few months is something we created here in the studio. [Musk] wanted it to look stylish. It had to be practical but also needed to look great."
If humans eventually want to become a space-faring species, we'll need to be able to collect basic resources, like water, straight from the space environment; it's too expensive and risky to send everything up from Earth, most experts agree.
Rubik's-cube-sized CubeSats are a nifty, cheap way for scientists to put a research vessel into space, but they're limited to orbiting where they're launched – until now.
SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk answered questions about his plans to send humans to Mars in a Reddit Ask Me Anything session Sunday afternoon that prompted thousands of reader comments.
The SpaceX CEO detailed his plan in a two-hour press conference
Virgin Galactic's 1st Glide Flight of VSS Unity Spaceship
Adventurous holidaymakers could soon be packing for a lunar trip, as long as they're prepared to pay the astronomical ticket price
Asteroids and the moon contain vast quantities of natural resources, including water, that could be worth billions and fuel a new phase of space exploration