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America at 500: Where will we be in space in 2276?

When the U.S. was born, humanity was still seven years away from balloon-borne flight. Where might we be another 250 years from now, should the nation be fortunate enough to survive that long?
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What NASA’s plans for a city on the moon would actually look like

The year is 2126. Looking out your window, you watch Earth hanging silently above the lunar horizon. What was once a ...

We Could Seed Alien Life Elsewhere in the Universe—But We’ll Never Undo the Devastating Consequences, Scientists Caution

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

Daring rescue mission launches to save a 3,200-pound NASA observatory from an untimely end

A first-of-its-kind mission launched Friday in the hopes of preventing NASA’s Swift Observatory from dropping out of ...

Scientists have revealed the secret of the extreme heating of the Sun's atmosphere

Charged cosmic dust may play a key role in heating the solar corona, which explains why the sun's outer atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface. This was reported by the Science X news ...
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1 private spacecraft intercepts another on Space Force's groundbreaking 'Victus Haze' mission

A U.S. Space Force mission pitting two satellites against each other has completed the organization's first tactical ...