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Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.

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?

NASA has unveiled its ambitious plan to build the first permanent human base on the Moon’s South Pole. The project will ...

As Elon Musk basked in the public spectacle of SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO, another – altogether more restrained – rocket ...

Francesca tells Eileen, “So, across Italy, readers are asking themselves if they’re reading truth or fiction.” Eileen replies ...

Today: Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or ...

Do you remember when they said that in space, no one could hear you scream? The tagline for the cult classic Alien movie has, in a way, become a tagline for the whole subgenre of science-fiction, at ...

NASA has plans for an ambitious moon base where astronauts can live long-term as the agency prepares to send humans to Mars.