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Stephen Hawking Teams With Billionaire Yuri Milner to Find an Earth-Like Planet

The $100 million initiative will deploy thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

By Reuters

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SpaceX Achieves First Successful Rocket Landing at Sea

By Tom Brandt

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Microsoft and NASA Team Up to Take You on a Tour of Mars

By Nina Zipkin

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Bezos Praises Third Blue Origin Launch-and-Land Rocket Test as ‘Perfect’

By Reuters

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Could This Inflatable Habitat Be the Future of Space Tourism?

Bigelow Aerospace's space habitat is set to be delivered to the ISS next week.

By Nina Zipkin

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Now You Can Have Your Product Printed in Space

The ISS will be getting a permanent 3-D printing facility built by Made in Space and open to us on Earth.

By Nina Zipkin

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NASA Turns to Small Businesses for Advances in Space Travel

More than a 100 proposals worth over $100 million were chosen through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research program.

By Nina Zipkin

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Jeff Bezos’s Space Company Aims for Passenger Flights in 2018

'We'll probably fly test pilots in 2017, and if we're successful then I'd imagine putting paying astronauts on in 2018,' he said.

By Reuters

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International Space Station Crew Returns Home Today. See Photos of Their Year in Space

A look back at astronaut Scott Kelly's time spent living on the International Space Station.

By Nina Zipkin

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Report: Space Projects Lured $1.8 Billion in Venture Capital Last Year

The lion's share of the 2015 space investments was a $1 billion round of financing for SpaceX.

By Reuters

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NASA Challenges High Schoolers to Make a Meal Fit for an Astronaut

The second annual HUNCH Culinary Challenge asks teen chefs to cook up a dish to be served on the International Space Station.

By Nina Zipkin

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NASA Building Telescope 100 Times More Powerful Than Hubble

The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope will be used to find far flung planets and to better understand dark energy.

By Nina Zipkin

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Look Hard, Stargazers: There May Be a 9th Planet in Our Solar System

'It was probably the runt of the family,' astronomer says of the mysterious Planet Nine.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

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Boldly Growing Where No Flower Has Grown Before

ISS Astronaut Scott Kelly takes to Twitter to showcase the first flower grown in space.

By Nina Zipkin

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Watch: SpaceX’s Third Attempt to Land a Rocket at Sea Ends in Flames

The third time is apparently not a charm.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

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Do You Have the Right Stuff? NASA Is Looking for Astronaut Candidates.

The application process is opening up for the first time since 2012.

By Nina Zipkin

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Jeff Bezos’s Space Startup Blue Origin Soars Into the Reusable Rocket Race

The Amazon founder's space startup successfully landed a reusable, suborbital rocket, and raised Elon Musk's eyebrows in the process.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

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Remembering George Mueller, the ‘Father of the Space Shuttle’

The trailblazing electrical engineer who played a pivotal role in landing men on the moon died last week. He was 97.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Build Rocket Plant, Launch Pad in Florida

Bezos's space startup, Blue Origin, will compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX venture.

By Reuters

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Stephen Colbert Tries to Figure Out if Elon Musk Is a Superhero or Something More Sinister (VIDEO)

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO talked Mars, reusable rockets and sustainable energy with the newly minted Late Show host.

By Nina Zipkin

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For the First Time Ever, NASA Astronauts Eat Vegetables Grown in Space

Space gardens mean more delicious meals aboard the International Space Station, and they are also a critical development for the march towards life on Mars.

By Catherine Clifford

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Not Your Average Business Trip: Buzz Aldrin Shares His Apollo 11 Expense Report

Your business trips will never be that cool.

By Nina Zipkin

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This Daring Distiller Is Rocketing Whiskey Into Space

Japan's Suntory Holdings is taking one small, historic step for cocktail connoisseurs everywhere.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

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The Smithsonian and Kickstarter Partner Up to Preserve Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit

More than 7,000 campaign backers have already contributed $550,000 to the preservation project.

By Catherine Clifford

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Russian Entrepreneur Pledges $100 Million in Search for Extraterrestrial Life

The initiative is backed by Stephen Hawking and is the largest search for intelligent life to date.

By Nina Zipkin

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The New Horizons Pluto Mission Is Mind Blowing, and a Great Inspiration for Entrepreneurs

In an amazing feat of precise planning and dedication, the small spacecraft traveled 3 billion miles over nine and a half years to reach our most distant celestial neighbor.

By Peter Gasca