'Life' is an alien horror movie that riffs on some eerily plausible science
Warning: Some spoilers for "Life" are ahead if you haven't seen the movie."Life" is a space horror movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, and more.The plot is about a Mars...
View ArticleEverybody's flying to the moon
The Trump Administration is but a few weeks old, but already a massive change is occurring in the future course of space exploration.NASA is weighing in, but a lot of the change is being driven by the...
View ArticleSpaceX and NASA are looking to land a ship at one of these 4 places on Mars
As part of their effort to kick-start the eventual colonization of Mars, SpaceX is sending an unmanned Dragon spacecraft to Mars. Initially, that mission was set for 2018, but is now re-scheduled for...
View ArticleNASA just launched a new tool that lets you search nearly 100 years of...
If you're looking to effortlessly sift through decades' worth of the best space visuals, NASA now has you covered — big time.The space agency just launched a new multimedia search engine called the...
View ArticleSpaceX is about to try something 'potentially revolutionary' in the history...
On March 30, SpaceX will try to re-launch and re-land a used Falcon 9 rocket booster for the first time.A telecommunications company called SES plans to use the rocket to launch a satellite.A...
View ArticleAstronomers are about to peer into a black hole's event horizon for the first...
Ever since first mentioned by Jon Michell in a letter to the Royal Society in 1783, black holes have captured the imagination of scientists, writers, filmmakers and other artists. Perhaps part of the...
View ArticleThis concept skyscraper could hang from an asteroid 31,068 miles above Earth
A New York design firm called Clouds Architecture Officehas proposed a tower that would hang from an asteroid 31,068 miles above Earth.The Analemma Tower would be the tallest building ever made. The...
View ArticleJeff Bezos just revealed a mock-up of the spacecraft his rocket company will...
Jeff Bezos has revealed new images of a concept of a capsule that his rocket company, Blue Origin, plans to use to ferry adventurous tourists into space.The photos and illustrations, which Bezos...
View ArticleNASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just sent back breathtaking new images of the...
A probe the size of a basketball court has taken unprecedented new images of Jupiter.NASA's $1 billion Juno spacecraft, launched in August 2011, took five years to reach and settle into orbit around...
View ArticleTrying to land a SpaceX rocket in this simple video game could drive you mad
Elon Musk and his rocket company, SpaceX, are on the cusp of something huge.On March 30, SpaceX will try to fire off a used rocket booster — the biggest and most expensive part of its Falcon 9 launch...
View ArticleSpaceX is about to try a 'potentially revolutionary' rocket launch — here's...
Elon Musk is about to try something he's dreamed about for more than 15 years: fuel up a used rocket booster, fire it off, then recover it for yet another launch.SpaceX, Musk's rocket company, has...
View ArticleA giant 'hole' on the sun just fired a burst of wind past Earth traveling...
On March 27, NOAA detected a coronal hole that wrapped nearly all the way around the sun. It lead to the ejection of solar particles traveling over 1.5 million mph that can create electromagnetic...
View ArticleThe only thing 'Mass Effect Andromeda' does really well is make me want to...
I think I've just about had it with "Mass Effect Andromeda." About five hours into the game, I'm ready to call it quits.There are just too many frustrations that discourage me from wanting to play...
View ArticleA female astronaut just smashed an international record 250 miles above Earth
A space blanket floated away from American astronaut Peggy Whitson on Thursday as she made a historic spacewalk outside the International Space Station, setting a new record for the most spacewalks by...
View ArticleWatch live: SpaceX is about to try a 'potentially revolutionary' rocket launch
Update: The SES-10 launch was a total success. Read our full coverage here.Elon Musk is about to try something he's dreamed about for more than 15 years: fuel up a used rocket booster, fire it off,...
View ArticleElon Musk has job openings for 473 people at SpaceX — here's who it's hiring
When tech mogul Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, the rocket company "basically consisted of carpet and a mariachi band," Musk said in September 2016. "That was it."Today, SpaceX employs hundreds of...
View ArticleThis is not a joke: Elon Musk once rocketed a wheel of cheese into space
The day after launching a used orbital rocket booster for the first time, tech mogul Elon Musk took to Twitter to tease the future of his aerospace company, SpaceX.On March 30, SpaceX fired off one of...
View ArticleA mysterious explosion in space has astronomers so baffled they think it...
Astronomers just observed an explosion in space that might be caused by a completely new kind of event, never seen before. The Chandra X-ray Space Telescope spotted the event in a galaxy 10.7 billion...
View ArticleAmateur astronomers just found objects in space that could lead to the...
60,000 people recently got together to make history. Their goal? Observe planet nine for the first time. Planet Nine is a theoretical planet that is thought to exist beyond Pluto, but no one has seen...
View ArticleA new satellite is recording unprecedented views of deadly storms and...
A new US weather satellite is recording violent storm systems at a level of detail scientists have never before seen from space.On November 19, 2016, the US government launched the high-tech...
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