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The world’s wealthiest entrepreneur celebrated another milestone in human exploration on the weekend anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ triumphant arrival in the Americas in 1492. But while the Spanish were supportive of the 15th-century…

After so many months of dithering, fumbling, and excuse-making, NASA finally announced it has a plan to bring back stranded astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore — next year. The two astronauts were originally supposed…

Much like the character Major Tom in David Bowie’s classic hit “Space Oddity,” two NASA astronauts, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams, are currently “sitting in a tin can, far above the world” with little hope of landing back…

The pair of NASA astronauts who flew Boeing’s Starliner capsule to the International Space Station on June 6 have been delayed from returning several times, with their departure date getting pushed from June 18, to the 22nd, to the 26th,…

WASHINGTON—Sounding the alarm that a cosmic bird of prey had clamped its talons onto the planet, NASA warned Thursday that a space hawk had swooped in and picked up the Earth for its nest of hungry space chicks. “We are on high alert after…

WASHINGTON—Marking the first time in history that humans have successfully smoothed away all the unsightly craters of a celestial body, NASA announced Thursday that it had polished the moon using an orbital rock tumbler. “Thanks to the…

NASA put out an open call for applications to take part in a simulated Mars mission in which a four-person crew will live and work for a full year inside the 1,700-square-foot Mars Dune Alpha habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. What do…

WASHINGTON—Turning the page on what they acknowledged was a painful chapter in the space agency’s history, NASA officials announced Friday they had decommissioned and removed the last Confederate satellite from Earth’s orbit. “A vital part…

A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever collected from the surface of an asteroid has landed in the Utah desert seven years after the mission’s launch. What do you think?“It’s not polite to go through another celestial…

Shannon Vore and her friend C.J. Bouchard were out four-wheeling in their Jeep last fall when a passing trucker warned them of what looked like an ATV accident nearby. They said they’d investigate. Deep in the Rocky Mountains of northwest…