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Considering the astronomical occupational risks, life insurance was prohibitively expensive for the first NASA astronauts.
Experts say it’s likely space junk—and there’s plenty more where that came from.
It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.
The $300,000 Model A is a true flying car — it can be driven on roads as well as flown in the air. And it's one step closer to your garage.
The material is both stronger and lighter than those used to make conventional power plant turbines.
But it's still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.
Particles behave differently when freed from the force of gravity. A new space factory aims to use this to synthesize pharmaceuticals.
Pessimism reigned supreme.
Memorial day is a time to remember veterans killed in the line of service. These spaceflight heroes deserve to be remembered, too.
Laser-guided lightning isn't the only manmade way to create lightning.
Without modularization, many epic projects simply would be impossible.
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works engineering division has devised many jaw-dropping aircraft. Here are some of the best — and one ship.
Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
Instead of giving the 239 suffering families and the public a true story, Netflix exploited a horrifying tragedy to push conspiracy theories.
Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.
You can't throw a DART at everything in space.
Spying is not usually done these days with balloons because they're an easy target and are not completely controllable.
Air currents in our atmosphere limit the resolving power of giant telescopes, but computers and artificial stars can sharpen the blur.
One of Jetoptera's VTOLs is expected to reach speeds of around 614 mph, about as fast as a commercial jet airliner.
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.
As far as we know, it's only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.
It is humanity's biggest step yet into the Solar System.
SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?
The DART mission tested whether it's possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.
Short-hop regional flights could be running on batteries in a few years.
UAP are no laughing matter anymore.
NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.
The surface of asteroid Bennu is more like a plastic ball pit than the Moon.