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Space
Congress is Finally Taking UFOs Seriously, 50 Years After Its Last Hearing on the Mysterious Subject
By Jeffrey Kluger
Scientists Grow Plants in Soil from the Moon. Lunar Farming Could Be Next.
By Jeffrey Kluger
More Cosmic Saber-Rattling From Russia's Space Boss
By Jeffrey Kluger
NASA's Mega Moon Rocket Is Flunking Its Dress Rehearsal
By Jeffrey Kluger
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Space
The Hubble, About to Be Outclassed, Is Still Making Record-Setting Discoveries
The aging telescope spotted a star that's a staggering 12.9 billion years old
By Jeffrey Kluger
April 1, 2022
The Age of the Private Space Station Is Upon Us
It was all smiles and thumbs-up on March 30, at 5:28 PM local time, when NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov thumped down in the steppes of Kazakhstan...
By Jeffrey Kluger
April 1, 2022
Sarah Al Amiri: 'Our Differences Bring About Great Innovation'
Sarah Al Amiri knows the importance of cultivating diversity in science. Indeed, she assembled a team that included 80% women to help the United Arab Emirates, a nation of fewer than 10 million people, join...
By Nik Popli
March 28, 2022
Looking for a New Planet? How About 5,000 of Them?
Countless new places for life to emerge
By Jeffrey Kluger
March 25, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope Took Its Best Picture Yet
An ordinary star produces an extraordinary image
By Jeffrey Kluger
March 18, 2022
NASA's New Budget Means it Won't Be Going Back to the Moon Anytime Soon
It simply isn't getting the cash it needs to build the necessary hardware
By Jeffrey Kluger
March 11, 2022
Why Russia (Probably) Won't Crash the Space Station
It's an empty threat, but Moscow's invasion has consequences for space nonetheless
By Jeffrey Kluger
February 28, 2022
Solar Storm Knocks 40 SpaceX Satellites Out of the Sky, After the Company Ignored Scientists' Warnings
Let’s start with the good news: There is no danger to anyone on the ground from the flock of 40 SpaceX Starlink satellites that are currently plunging from orbit and heading for Earth, knocked from...
By Jeffrey Kluger
February 10, 2022
NASA Quietly Had a Stellar Year
From the James Webb Space Telescope to the Perseverance rover, the agency had win after win in 2021
By Jeffrey Kluger
December 26, 2021
The Most Powerful Telescope Ever Built Is Ready to Unlock the Mysteries of the Cosmos
The Hubble's successor is years late and billions over budget, but it might just be worth it
By Jeffrey Kluger
December 20, 2021
Space Junk Could Be Creating No-Go Zones for Satellites
“Dramatic increases in space collisions" are expected in a few years, a former NASA administrator told U.S. lawmakers
By Todd Shields / Bloomberg
November 18, 2021
Number of People That Have Walked on Moon Will Grow: Musk
Musk is also the founder of SpaceX, which has emerged as a space leader
By Bloomberg
November 14, 2021
Earth Has a Second Moon—For Another 300 Years, At Least
And we just learned where it came from
By Jeffrey Kluger
November 11, 2021
A Comet May Have Exploded Over Chile 12,000 Years Ago—and it Could Happen Again
New research holds warnings for the future
By Jeffrey Kluger
November 3, 2021
'It Moved Me to Tears.' William Shatner On Briefly Going Where Some Men Have Gone Before
The iconic starship captain goes to space for real
By Jeffrey Kluger
October 14, 2021
Why William Shatner's History-Making Spaceflight Is Something to Celebrate
The man who gave us Captain Kirk left the planet for real
By Jeffrey Kluger
October 13, 2021
Boulders On Mars Suggest a Warm and Humid Past
Jezero Crater May have Benn Home to Life
By Jeffrey Kluger
October 7, 2021
Mars Was Always Destined to Die
The Red Planet was doomed from the start, a new study finds
By Jeffrey Kluger
September 21, 2021
Liftoff! Inspiration4 Makes Space History
In the end, the camping trip up the flank of Mt. Rainier that the Inspiration4 crew made back in April may have done more than anything else to prepare them for tonight's successful launch into...
By Jeffrey Kluger
September 15, 2021
Inspiration4: The Quest to Push the Limits of Space Travel
TIME Studios is producing the Netflix documentary series Countdown: Inspiration 4 Mission to Space, starting Sept. 6. Jared Isaacman is not likely to forget the day he almost died at 10,000 ft., back in 2011....
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 10, 2021
Meet the All-Civilian Crew of Inspiration4
From a childhood cancer survivor to an aerospace engineer
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 10, 2021
St. Jude's Fundraising Chief on Space and Pushing Boundaries
St. Jude has always been about pushing boundaries and taking what seems like impossible and making it possible.'
By Belinda Luscombe
August 10, 2021
Inspiration4 and the Long History of Civilian Space Flight
The Inspiration4 mission, while historic in its own right, is just the latest in a history of civilian space flights spanning four decades
By Olivia B. Waxman
August 9, 2021
Inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon That Inspiration4 Will Fly to Space
The Dragon takes care of everything, so enjoy the ride—unless, something goes wrong. And something can always go wrong
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 6, 2021
How the Inspiration4 Crew Trained to Go to Space
"I wanted them to get comfortable with being uncomfortable because not everything about space will be comfortable."
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 5, 2021
Who Is an Astronaut in the Age of Private Space Flights?
With private space flight on the rise, paying customers can blast off for orbit. But does a spacecraft ticket make one an astronaut?
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 4, 2021
Everything You Need to Know About the Inspiration4 Mission
The Inspiration4 mission marks a turning point in which space is within the grasp of private corporations and citizens
By Alejandro de la Garza
August 4, 2021
Bezos Protests Elon Musk's Moon Contract
The protest opens a new front in a fight over government contracts as Blue Origin races to catch up to SpaceX
By Justin Bachman / Bloomberg
April 27, 2021
NASA Hid a Message on Perseverance's Parachute
Here's how a computer science student and his father cracked the secret code
By Megan McCluskey
February 24, 2021
Watch SpaceX and NASA's Crewed Launch
It'll be the first launch of American astronauts from American soil in nearly a decade
By Jeffrey Kluger
May 25, 2020
Is Coronavirus A Preview Of Alien Life Reaching Earth?
You know what? Maybe we ought to reconsider this whole thing about looking for life on other worlds. It would be nice to find it, of course. But that doesn't mean we could handle it—biologically,...
By Jeffrey Kluger
March 2, 2020
Hidden Figures
Hero Katherine Johnson Dies at 101
Nor was NASA excluded from the nation's evolution
By Jeffrey Kluger
February 24, 2020
NASA Could Get a Raise Next Year
For decades, NASA has been the kid politely asking for a raise in its allowance. Time was NASA's pocket money was huge. Go back 54 years, to 1966, and the space agency was getting $5.9...
By Jeffrey Kluger
February 18, 2020
The Irony of Finding So Many Exoplanets in a Time of Climate Change
There was nothing quite like the slang used in the early days of the space program. Saying something was "OK" would not do when you could say "A-OK" instead. Saying, "Let's get moving," when you've...
By Jeffrey Kluger
January 21, 2020
NASA May Have Found the Goldilocks Planet of Goldilocks Planets: TOI 700 d
If you ask astronomers how many planets in the universe harbor life, they will likely say there are only two possible answers: one or infinity. We can rule out zero, thanks to the decidedly alive...
By Jeffrey Kluger
January 13, 2020
Boeing Starliner's Troubled Flight May Mean More Delays in Commercial Crew Missions
America gets back in the astronaut-launching game—almost
By Jeffrey Kluger
December 20, 2019
How to See the Geminid Meteor Shower This Weekend
The shower is expected to peak late tonight into the midnight hours. During peak hours, 120 meteors per can possibly be seen.
By Josiah Bates
December 13, 2019
SpaceX Just Put 60 More Broadband Internet Satellites Into Space
(Bloomberg) — Space Exploration Technologies Corp. launched its second batch of 60 Starlink satellites on Monday, taking another step toward Elon Musk’s vision to create a network for space-based broadband internet service around the world....
By Dana Hull / Bloomberg
November 11, 2019
Watch Live: The First All-Women Spacewalk
The first ever spacewalk by an all-women crew is happening today. Coverage began at 6:30 a.m. ET, and the astronauts are scheduled to enter the vacuum of space at 7:50 a.m. Astronaut Christina Koch, who...
By Billy Perrigo
October 18, 2019
TIME's Award-Winning
Year in Space
Documentary Is Now Available On Netflix
We followed astronaut Scott Kelly as he spent nearly a year aboard the ISS
By Jeffrey Kluger
October 17, 2019
There's a Full Moon Due on Friday the 13th for Most of the U.S. The Next One Isn't for Another 30 Years
September's Harvest Moon is also nicknamed the Micro Moon
By Gina Martinez
September 12, 2019
Why This Earth-Like Planet is a Big Step Forward in the Search for Life
A watery world in a cozy spot
By Jeffrey Kluger
September 11, 2019
The Amazon Fires, From an Extraterrestrial Perspective
A version of this first appeared as the TIME Space newsletter sent on Aug. 30. Space is aspirational. Merely the act of looking through a telescope is an exercise in questing. It’s vast, exciting, and...
By Jeffrey Kluger
September 6, 2019
A European Satellite Had to Fire Thrusters to Avoid Colliding With a SpaceX Satellite
Such maneuvers are expected to become more common as more small satellites are launched
By Craig Trudell / Bloomberg
September 2, 2019
Northern Lights Could Be Visible in U.S. This Weekend
Dress warmly, get to a dark spot and look to the north
By Gina Martinez
August 30, 2019
Newt Gingrich's Moon Sweepstakes Are a Confounding Development in Today's Space Race
A version of this first appeared as the TIME Space newsletter sent on Aug. 24. Newt Gingrich is going to the moon. Again. You might argue that Gingrich, the one-time Speaker of the House of...
By Jeffrey Kluger
August 29, 2019
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