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When the U.S. was born, humanity was still seven years away from balloon-borne flight. Where might we be another 250 years from now, should the nation be fortunate enough to survive that long?

Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.

NASA has unveiled its ambitious plan to build the first permanent human base on the Moon’s South Pole. The project will ...

Moon bases, living to 100 and (finally!) flying cars. What 2076 and our future will look like may be stranger than we expect.

As Elon Musk basked in the public spectacle of SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO, another – altogether more restrained – rocket ...

Francesca tells Eileen, “So, across Italy, readers are asking themselves if they’re reading truth or fiction.” Eileen replies ...

Today: Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or ...

As NASA prepares for long-term moon bases, scientists are working on how to grow food in lunar soil and deal with razor-sharp ...

Look to the west to catch Venus and Jupiter shining bright, with Saturn and Mars visible in the east for early risers, and ...