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Surprises in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Venture beyond Mars and moons of gas giants, where subsurface oceans within icy moons like Europa, Enceladus, and Titan hold promise for life-supporting environments.

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Russian roulette on the International Space Station

As Russian fighter jets bombard Ukraine’s most advanced spacecraft maker with long-range missiles, they are devastating the “Rocket City” of Dnipro with the aim of crushing a Ukrainian aerospace competitor - a rising star in the design of orbital launchers.

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Moscow’s missiles could explode China’s Space Station dreams

This was supposed to be the golden year of China’s Space Station dreams: an orbital observatory attracting pan-European astronauts and marking Beijing’s peaceful, triumphant rise on the globe’s stage. But that future is now disappearing, like a fleeting mirage.

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NASA’s global competition for superhero robots coded to terraform Mars

Desert storms encircling Mars ravage humanity’s first outpost. Its sole astronaut – an android named R5 - races to halt the base’s doomsday escape of oxygen before his compatriots’ imminent landing. NASA offers an astronomical prize to anyone who can avert the catastrophe.

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Russia’s shooting down of a SpaceX satellite could spark “Space War I”

Weapons designers across Russia and China are racing to perfect arms that could target and destroy Elon Musk’s SpaceX satellites. But Western military leaders warn that shooting down a single SpaceX spacecraft could ignite a war with not just the US, but the entire NATO alliance.

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Next On Netflix : D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!

There is nothing quite like a newly released Netflix series to stir the imagination and breathe fresh life into old FBI cold cases. This is no different. A series in 4 parts, ‘D. B. Cooper : Where are you?!’ tells the fascinating tale of the worlds first successful skyjacking.

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Russian rockets blaze toward Ukraine and the Moon

In the wake of Russia’s aerial bombardment of Ukraine, and the Kremlin’s threats of nuclear war with NATO, Britain, the Nordic nations and the entire European Union, along with the US and Canada, are stepping up moves to shield their skies from Moscow’s missiles and fighter jets.

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Will hyper-tech robots build domed cities across the Martian dunes?

When historians of the future write the chronicles on Mars’ first cosmopolis, Xavier De Kestelier is likely to be highlighted as one of its primary architects: he recently unveiled his studio’s Martian outpost – entirely built by robots - at London’s Design Museum.

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Why SpaceX’s Elon Musk is caught in the Kremlin’s crosshairs

For stargazers and aeronauts, there’s little doubt that SpaceX has skyrocketed into becoming the globe’s first independent space superpower: SpaceX launched more rockets than Russia did in 2021, and recently passed China in the number of astronauts it’s speeded into orbit.

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Europe girds for celestial war

Weeks before Russia began blitzing Ukraine in a fireworks of missile attacks, while threatening a doomsday nuclear war with Europe and the US, it sent out a signal that the battle could be extended into space. But that piece in the puzzle of its war plans was only later decoded.

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Stephen Hawking: From Big Bang to “the mind of God”

Have you ever looked up at a starry night sky and wondered if the fantastical design of the cosmos could one day be deciphered? Is the universe eternal? In the physics of the celestial sphere, are there signs, as Einstein suggested, of a higher creator?

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The realm of Apollo "Astronaut-Gods" is finally opening to mortals 

Advances made by the rising spaceflight powers Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin to begin launching adventurers to the edge of space will transform not just the heavens but also Earth: national borders and space agencies will no longer dictate who can becom