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Since Elon Musk sent a Tesla Roadster in space in 2018, cars made on Earth by humans have made their entrance onto the intergalactic stage. For all you alien readers out there, we created this special section where you can read all about the novelties, plans and dreams human kind will use to conquer your planets. Make sure to bookmark this page or follow via RSS if you’re into space exploration, NASA rovers, SpaceX and everything space-related.
NASA People Dissecting Alien Asteroid Sample Already Found Traces of Carbon and Water
NASA People Dissecting Alien Asteroid Sample Already Found Traces of Carbon and Water

12 Oct 2023, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the Bennu asteroid sample it got last month is the "biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever delivered to Earth,"

 
Straight Outta NASA: 1-of-1 Ford Galaxie Ferried Personnel Around Langley Research Center
Straight Outta NASA: 1-of-1 Ford Galaxie Ferried Personnel Around Langley Research Center

10 Oct 2023, 19:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In its day, the fourth-generation Ford Galaxie was something like the era's equivalent to the Mercedes S-Class or BMW 7-Series

 
Crazy Lander Concept Would Have Carried Moon Astronauts on the Outside
Crazy Lander Concept Would Have Carried Moon Astronauts on the Outside

10 Oct 2023, 06:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A lunar lander design idea called for unpressurized transport of astronauts to the surface of the Moon, CGI clip gives us a taste of it

 
Cygnus Spacecraft to Dock with Future Starlab Inflatable Space Station on Its Own
Cygnus Spacecraft to Dock with Future Starlab Inflatable Space Station on Its Own

9 Oct 2023, 07:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Voyager Space announced it selected the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft to supply the STarlab space station, an autonomous docking system is needed

 
Blue Ghost Lunar Lander on Track to Become NASA's First Taxi to the Moon
Blue Ghost Lunar Lander on Track to Become NASA's First Taxi to the Moon

6 Oct 2023, 08:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Firefly Aerospace announced the completion of its first lunar lander structure, the hardware will transport NASA science to the Moon next year

 
114 Asteroids Came Closer to Earth Than the Moon This Year, There Are Over 30K Out There
114 Asteroids Came Closer to Earth Than the Moon This Year, There Are Over 30K Out There

5 Oct 2023, 08:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's September 2023 update on the number of known near-Earth asteroids reveals there are at least 31,248 of them out there

 
Exoplanet Gives Death the Finger, Escapes Its Sun's Red Giant Stage
Exoplanet Gives Death the Finger, Escapes Its Sun's Red Giant Stage

5 Oct 2023, 07:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A TESS study into 8 Ursae Minoris b, a planet located 530 light-years from Earth, shows it escaped its stars worst red giant phase

 
Flash Gordon Rocket Ship Imagined as Real-Life Explorer, Visits All Sol's Planets
Flash Gordon Rocket Ship Imagined as Real-Life Explorer, Visits All Sol's Planets

2 Oct 2023, 07:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Flash Gordon rocket ship predates the flight of the first true rocket by several years, here it is imagined as a real-life planet explorer

 
ESA Calls for More Moon Mission Ideas, Throws in the Ariane 6 as a Hook
ESA Calls for More Moon Mission Ideas, Throws in the Ariane 6 as a Hook

29 Sep 2023, 08:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency announced a call for ideas on small Moon missions in a bid to fill technology gaps for the Terrae Novae plan

 
Autonomous Robot Learning to Pick Up Lightsaber-Like Tubes From the Surface of Mars
Autonomous Robot Learning to Pick Up Lightsaber-Like Tubes From the Surface of Mars

29 Sep 2023, 07:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency is hard at work teaching itself and a prototype rover how to pick up the samples of alien world the Perseverance is gathering

 
All Four RS-25 Engines Are in Place on the Moon Rocket, Boosters Arrive by Train
All Four RS-25 Engines Are in Place on the Moon Rocket, Boosters Arrive by Train

26 Sep 2023, 08:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA announces the installation of all four engine on the Space Launch System core stage, boosters are now on location as well

 
Huge Nexus SSTO Rocket Is How America Should Have Looked Like Going to the Heavens
Huge Nexus SSTO Rocket Is How America Should Have Looked Like Going to the Heavens

25 Sep 2023, 07:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A CGI video shows for the first time in action the Nexus single-stage-to-orbit rocket, the hardware that could have dwarfed Saturn V

 
For the First Time Ever a Piece of Asteroid Landed in the U.S. Instead of Crashing
For the First Time Ever a Piece of Asteroid Landed in the U.S. Instead of Crashing

25 Sep 2023, 05:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA managed to safely bring down a capsule containing a sample of asteroid Bennu, the work on unlocking its secrets has only just begun

 
NASA's LRO Snaps Mosaic of Lunar Crater Deeper Than the Grand Canyon
NASA's LRO Snaps Mosaic of Lunar Crater Deeper Than the Grand Canyon

24 Sep 2023, 05:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / At some point in the distant past, an assuredly vast piece of unknown space debris impacted the Moon at the modern-day site of Shackleton Crater. U

 
Elon Musk's SpaceX Lost 200 Starlink Satellites in Two Months, and Nobody Knows Why
Elon Musk's SpaceX Lost 200 Starlink Satellites in Two Months, and Nobody Knows Why

21 Sep 2023, 15:42 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / SpaceX lost 212 Starlink satellites in unknown conditions in the period spanning July 18 and September 18, satellite tracking data shows

 
This Black Dot Is a Piece of Asteroid Heading for Earth, It Comes in a Spaceship
This Black Dot Is a Piece of Asteroid Heading for Earth, It Comes in a Spaceship

21 Sep 2023, 08:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just a few days are left until the OSIRIS-REx spaceship drops a capsule containing an asteroid sample, Europeans snatch it on film as it approaches

 
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Drag Races Through Coronal Explosion, Lives to Collect Data
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Drag Races Through Coronal Explosion, Lives to Collect Data

20 Sep 2023, 16:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A careful study of the data the Parker Solar Probe collected during the incident seems to comport with a research paper published in 2003.

 
America Is Getting an Asteroid Delivery From Space, Here's Where to Watch
America Is Getting an Asteroid Delivery From Space, Here's Where to Watch

19 Sep 2023, 05:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Sunday, September 24, the OSIRIS-REx mission ends with a capsule containing a piece of an asteroid landing in the Utah desert

 
Pulsar Fusion Wants To Build the World's First Nuclear Fusion Rocket Engine, Is It Legit?
Pulsar Fusion Wants To Build the World's First Nuclear Fusion Rocket Engine, Is It Legit?

18 Sep 2023, 19:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It might be difficult not to write off Pulsar Fusion's operation as little more than weapons-grade ambition. But their founder and CEO seems dead set.

 
JWST Detects Molecule on Exoplanet That’s Only Made by Life, Is It the Smoking Gun?
JWST Detects Molecule on Exoplanet That’s Only Made by Life, Is It the Smoking Gun?

18 Sep 2023, 16:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By non-astrophysicist standards, K2-18 b is a peculiar exoplanet. One roughly 8.6 times the size of Earth by the latest measurements.