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The space station race - Vox The ISS will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere in a few years, paving the way for new businesses in space. The International Space Station brings together astronauts from around the world to collaborate on cutting-edge research, and some have called it humanity’s...

NASA scientists consider the health risks of space travel - Space Humans aren't built to live in space, and being there can pose serious health risks. For space administrations like NASA, a major goal is to identify these risks to hopefully help lessen them. That was a major theme during...

Giant ghostly 'hand' stretches through space in new X-ray views - Space An enormous ghostly hand stretches through the depths of space, its wispy fingers pressing against a glowing cloud. It sounds like science fiction, but it's quite real, as imagery gathered by NASA's Chandra X-ray...

Hear a sound bite from NASA's Perseverance as it travels along the final frontier - Chron You can now hear a sound bite from NASA's Perseverance as it travels along the final frontier. A first of its kind, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance was rigged with microphones to capture...

A mysterious radio burst from space is back, right on schedule - CNET Roughly every 161 days it starts all over again. In June this year, astronomers found a fast radio burst (FRB), FRB 121102, repeating in a regular pattern, from somewhere in deep space. It was only the second time a radio...

Black hole keeps snacking on white dwarf locked in its orbit - Space Black holes can have a little star gas, as a treat. This black hole's parents never told it not to play with its food. An astronomer thinks he's spotted a stellar corpse known as a white dwarf sending out blazes of light...

Virtually Travel to Space With This Free NASA App - House Beautiful As you wait to see April's Super Pink Moon in the night sky, you can find celestial beauty online by live streaming the northern lights. If you're looking for a more interactive galactic experience, though, you can virtually...

The First Mars-Inspired Village on Earth Will Open in the Not-So-Distant Future - AFAR In the Mojave Desert, a network of self-sustaining biomes by Interstellar Lab will be built to research how future generations could inhabit other planets. The new decade is set to usher in a groundbreaking...

How much does space travel cost? - NBC News With the rise of private spaceflight, costs are falling — but leaving the planet is still far from cheap. Spaceflight has traditionally been a government-led activity — and it's never been cheap. But the stratospheric cost of putting people and...

Why on Earth would a company offer insurance for space travel? - Fox Carolina Drivers need insurance before they get on the road. And space companies need it before they hurtle metal projectiles into the sky. Offering insurance for space flight might seem like an insane business decision. The...