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‘LOOK AT THAT, YOU SON OF A BITCH’ reads a suborbital tweet paraphrasing Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell. Continue reading This Indie Space Network Launched the ‘First Protest in Space’ Targeting Trump
Interstellar travel is evolving into a legitimate engineering challenge, rather than an idealistic pipe dream. Continue reading NASA’s Newest Interstellar Concepts Rely on Huge Laser Arrays and Gravity Surfing
Synthetic biology meets smart manufacturing. Continue reading ‘Urban Biomining’ Could Be Used to Print Electronics on Earth and Beyond
The French sound recording pioneer Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville never expected his samples to be played back, but scientists found a way. Continue reading Listen to the Eerie Warbles of the Oldest Sound Recording in History
The most ambitious NASA mission you’ve never heard of. Continue reading Humanity Will ‘Touch the Sun’ with the Fastest Spacecraft Ever Made
On September 15, Cassini will throw itself into Saturn after nearly 20 years in space. Continue reading Watch NASA’s Tribute to Its Doomed Saturn Orbiter, and Cry for Our Robot Friends
Our planet is sculpted by hidden magnetic flourishes. Continue reading This Kaleidoscopic Visualization Maps Earth’s Mysterious Magnetic Anomalies
TFW you sleep for 600 years then wake up in an extragalactic dark energy landfill. Continue reading Same Shit, Different Galaxy: Motherboard’s ‘Mass Effect: Andromeda’ Review
Humanity’s first spacewalk seems even crazier 52 years later. Continue reading The First Spacewalker Cheated Death And Crash-Landed In a Forest Full of Wolves
A smart trash bag. A contaminant-resistant spacesuit. These proposals, and over 100 more, have been funded by NASA for development. Continue reading The Four Coolest Concepts NASA Just Bankrolled to Solve Spaceflight Challenges