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What if all the galaxies, stars, planets — everything — stopped moving away from everything else? #WhatIf

With private companies turning their attention to the riches of asteroids, the first trillionaire could be made in space. Andrew Glester explores the challenges of mining space rocks.

Hooray for Juno!

Though NASA’s Juno spacecraft has probed Jupiter’s secrets for nearly two years, the $1 billion mission was set to crash into the planet’s clouds in July. Now, however, the agency has confirmed Business Insider’s previous report that Juno will get three additional years of flight.

A race is on to mine billions of dollars in resources from the solar system’s asteroids, fuelling our future among the stars.

Zoë Corbyn

What did they find out?

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered the best evidence yet that life may have once existed on Mars.

Continue reading “Breakthrough in search for Martian life as Curiosity finds organic matter and seasonal methane” »

A new space era is dawning and will be upon us by the early 2020s. In the face of emerging novel threats and vulnerabilities, whether the self-defense doctrine allows us to counter the threat before the attack occurs can make the difference between peace and war.

President Trump unveiled the America First National Space Strategy on March 23 covering both commercial and civil space, and national security space. This important document has drawn few comments, which are typified by the observation of Spacepolicyonline.com founder and editor Marcia Smith that “the Trump strategy contains little that is new.”

Indeed, most of the national security provisions, which are the focus of this article, are only different in rhetoric but not in substance from those of the Obama administration and it’s predecessors. However, that they are the same is fine because they are equally essential for the new space era.

NASA shared the results of two new studies made possible by the Curiosity rover, and they could both help us determine whether Mars hosted life.

Astronaut is life.

A relatively inexperienced crew of two astronauts and a cosmonaut blasted off Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.