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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
In 2004, a magnetar on the far side of the Milky Way unleashed a giant flare so intense…
Water is the most valuable thing in space, not gold, not platinum, not any rare metal
NASA's Roman Space Telescope reaches Kennedy eight months ahead of schedule, with a…
A Russian cosmonaut named Sergei Krikalev has physically travelled further into the…
Researchers at the University of California Riverside found in May 2026 that living…
Jonathan McDowell has been tracking every object in orbit since 1989
Europa’s surface is almost too clean. In a Solar System full of impactors, an icy moon…
In 1970, the Soviet Venera 7 probe survived 23 minutes on the surface of Venus before…
A spacecraft no larger than a small car, launched the year Star Wars came out, is still…
Astrobotic spent 19 years building lunar landers without a venture-capital war chest…
