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SpaceX Crew Dragon splashdown

SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down in Atlantic to Cap Historic Test Flight

By Mike Wall published

Splashdown occurred at 8:45 a.m. EST about 230 miles off the Florida coast.

Space Exploration
The International Space Station

No, Bacteria Aren't Mutating into Superbugs on the International Space Station

By Rafi Letzter published

Bacteria on the International Space Station are evolving and changing in the strange orbital environment. But they don't seem to be any more dangerous to humans.

Space Exploration
Falcon 9 rocket launch

Moldy Mouse Chow Delays SpaceX Dragon Launch to Space Station

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX's next cargo launch to the International Space Station has been pushed back to Wednesday (Dec. 5) due to a rodent problem.

Space Exploration
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There's Drug-Resistant Bacteria in the Space Toilets, Guys

By Brandon Specktor published

Always wash your hands after using the space toilet. Always.

Space
AIrglow Earth

Ghostly Orange Light Envelopes Earth During Rare Airglow

By Laura Geggel published

Space
Russia's Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague, blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome on Oct. 11, 2018. Minutes later, it had to make an emergency landing.

Astronaut and Cosmonaut Survive 'Ballistic' Fall to Earth After Failed Soyuz Launch

By Rafi Letzter published

Sometime after 4:40 am Eastern, something went wrong with a rocket booster carrying two people to the International Space Station.

Space Exploration
SpaceX's Vision for a Mars City

The BFR in Images: SpaceX's Giant Spaceship for Mars Colony & Beyond

By Mike Wall published

Mars
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NASA Created a Rare, Exotic State of Matter in Space

By Rafi Letzter published

A special device aboard the International Space Station has produced Bose-Einstein condensates in space for the first time ever.

Physics & Mathematics
Sahara Desert

Moldy Bread? Nope, It's a Photo of the Sahara Desert Taken from Space

By Laura Geggel published

Planet Earth
An illustration of the Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station

This Box Could Become the Coldest Spot in the Universe

By Mindy Weisberger published

Lasers and microgravity will chill this ice chest-size box to 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space.

Cosmology
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