Space

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Aerospace
T-Minus Weekly: NASA’s first asteroid sample, Stoke’s big hop, and more
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest developments in space, featuring NASA’s first asteroid sample, a Curiosity milestone, and more.
Kristin Houser
An artist's impression of a planet and a red star.
Outer Space
Why astronomers are excited about carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere of an alien world
Scientists reported chemical traces in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, including a substance which on Earth is only produced by living things.
Brad E. Tucker
a charred capsule in the desert
Asteroids
NASA has retrieved its first asteroid sample
NASA has just retrieved its first asteroid sample, bringing nearly 9 ounces of the asteroid Bennu to Earth.
Kristin Houser
A man experiencing space effects on the body while laying on a bed with a machine.
Astronomy
Spending time in space can harm the human body − but scientists are working to mitigate these risks before we go to Mars
Rachael Seidler
An image of a cluster of stars in space.
Astronomy
Astronomers spot the first “bounce” in our Universe
Ethan Siegel
An image of the earth with stars in the background, featuring largest asteroid impact.
Asteroids
Evidence suggests the world’s largest known asteroid impact structure is buried deep in southeast Australia
Andrew Glikson
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Aerospace
T-Minus Weekly: Victus Nox, a record-breaking ISS mission, and more
Kristin Houser
the T-Minus logo over a gif of NASA's Mars 2020 mission on its decent to Mars
Aerospace
T-Minus Weekly: The end of O2 on Mars and the week’s other big space stories
Kristin Houser
Two men conducting ISRU research in a spacecraft laboratory.
Aerospace
NASA finishes the first experiment to make oxygen on Mars
Kristin Houser
An image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble telescope.
Outer Space
New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension
Ethan Siegel
An image of a large antenna on a grassy hill used by SpinLaunch.
Aerospace
SpinLaunch will hurl payloads into orbit, cutting the cost of launch by 20x
Adam Frank
An artist's rendering of a space station equipped with a bag for capturing space trash
Aerospace
NASA is spending $850,000 to make a bag for space trash
Kristin Houser
Gamma-ray bursts from the milky way.
Outer Space
“Ghostly” neutrinos help us see our Milky Way as never before
Don Lincoln