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NewSpace 2016 makes Seattle the space industry’s center of the universe this week

There’s a neighborhood in Seattle that jokingly calls itself “the center of the universe,” but this week the title is… Read More

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch lifts veil on world’s biggest plane — a giant bet on a new way to space

MOJAVE, Calif. – When you walk into the place where Seattle software billionaire Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Systems is building the world’s biggest airplane,… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin live-streams its spaceship’s risky test flight

Something went wrong during today’s test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship, and the world was able to watch how… Read More

What a view! Space station trio sails home through picture-perfect clouds

Three spacefliers from the International Space Station made a photogenic return to Earth today, touching down in the steppes of… Read More

After delay, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin gets set for spaceship test flight on Father’s Day

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says it’s all systems go for a live-streamed Father’s Day launch of Blue Origin’s reusable New… Read More

What’s next in space is beautifully animated in ‘Space Next,’ showing at The Museum of Flight

The line between “can we really do that?” and pure science fiction seems to blur more every day, especially when… Read More

Jeff Bezos says a big government ‘prize’ could generate more public interest in space exploration

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos thinks the government could offer “a very large prize” as an incentive to parties involved in the modern… Read More

LIGO gets lit up again by gravitational waves from another black hole crash

It looks as if gravitational-wave watchers are in for a bumpy, beautiful ride. Scientists using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory,… Read More

Suspense at SpaceX: Live video cuts out as Falcon 9 is lost in latest sea landing attempt

There were cheers, groans and no small amount of suspense at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., this morning, as live… Read More

Jeff Bezos plans to live-stream Blue Origin’s next suborbital spaceflight

For his next trick, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos plans to have his Blue Origin space venture send its New Shepard rocket… Read More

Have any alien civilizations ever existed? Astronomers say the chances are sky-high

Are we alone? Fifty-five years ago, astronomer Frank Drake came up with an equation that weighed the odds for aliens,… Read More

SpaceX’s Elon Musk teases ‘dangerous’ plan to colonize Mars starting in 2024

SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, is providing increasingly detailed previews of his plan to send colonists to Mars starting in… Read More

Most of us can’t see the Milky Way – this dark sky atlas shows you where you can

Eighty percent of Americans can’t see the Milky Way from where they live, according to a new analysis of light… Read More

SpaceX speaks up for its Seattle satellite operation after months of low-key work

SpaceX has provided a rare update on its Seattle-centric plans to develop a multibillion-dollar Internet satellite network, saying that the… Read More

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Maybe black holes (and wormholes) aren’t as monstrous as we thought

Black holes may have gotten a bad rap. And wormholes just might be a realistic way to travel Star Trek-style… Read More

Astronauts get their first look inside BEAM, the first expandable space habitat

Nine days after the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module was blown up to its full volume, astronauts entered the bedroom-sized BEAM… Read More

White House works out a process to clear commercial missions to moon and Mars

After months of discussion, federal agencies are closing in on a process to approve commercial missions to other celestial bodies… Read More

The universe is expanding 5-9% faster than astronomers expected, Hubble team finds

New research from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope team suggests that the universe is expanding significantly faster than astronomers originally thought.… Read More

Astronauts do backflips, talk Mars and social media in Facebook Live chat from space with Mark Zuckerberg

There are plenty of billionaires racing to get us to space in one way or another, but Mark Zuckerberg sort… Read More

Bayer partners with Planetary Resources to use space data to boost agriculture on Earth

German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer today inked a memorandum of understanding with Planetary Resources as part of a deal to utilize… Read More

After snags, BEAM space module expands to its full volume – like a bag of popcorn

It took almost eight hours, but NASA accomplished the first expansion of a pop-up module at the International Space Station… Read More

New Horizons provides the best close-up of Pluto some of us might ever see

Almost a year after NASA’s New Horizons probe flew past Pluto, the team behind the mission has put together a… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 booster leans in for a landing at sea after launching satellite

For the third time in a row, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster sent a payload into space and then came back… Read More

Fabric too stiff? NASA gets set for second try to expand BEAM space module

Update: NASA will make its second attempt to inflate the Bigelow Expandable Space Module starting at around 6 a.m. PT… Read More

Top 5 things to do at Museum of Flight’s ‘Above and Beyond’ aerospace exhibit

Most of the floor space at Seattle’s Museum of Flight is set aside to celebrate past glories of aerospace – but “Above… Read More

Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin’s next spaceflight will test parachute failure

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos predicts there’ll be a problem with a parachute the next time his Blue Origin venture flies… Read More

‘Space selfie’ project canceled: Planetary Resources offers Kickstarter refunds

REDMOND, Wash. – Three years ago, Planetary Resources raised more than $1.5 million on Kickstarter to build a space telescope… Read More

Planetary Resources’ asteroid miners focus on Earth observation with $21 million in new funding

REDMOND, Wash. – Planetary Resources was founded as an asteroid mining company, but a fresh infusion of $21.1 million in investment… Read More

NASA fires back at Nathan Myhrvold in spat over asteroid mission’s data

BELLEVUE, Wash. – NASA issued a statement today disputing Seattle tech icon Nathan Myhrvold’s critique of asteroid data analysis from the space… Read More

NASA uses Microsoft’s HoloLens and ProtoSpace to build its next Mars rover in augmented reality

We’ve already seen how Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed-reality headset is helping folks fight off aliens on the International Space Station and… Read More