Crew Dragon passes escape test before first manned SpaceX flight (science news).
NASA and SpaceX successfully completed a launch escape demonstration of the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket on
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The Moon Industrial Complex (science video).
The Moon is getting lined up to be commercialised damned quick – before you know it, there’ll be McDonalds and
Read MoreFirst programmable artificial lifeforms designed by supercomputers (science news).
You know you’re living in science fiction for real when the Deep Green supercomputer cluster’s evolutionary algorithms design and deploy
Read MoreIs biofabrication the future’s next industrial revolution? (science talk)
What if we could grow clothes from microbes, build furniture from living organisms and raise bio-buildings with exteriors like tree
Read MoreET call home? Should we try to signal aliens, or are we signalling for elimination? (David Brin video interview).
Science fiction author David Brin chats with astrobiologist David Grinspoon about METI – Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence – concerning the perils
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Starliner lands successfully (science news).
The CST-100 Starliner spacecraft completed the first land touchdown of a human-rated capsule this Sunday at White Sands Space Harbor
Read MoreNASA’s Parker solar probe gets sizzling hot (science news).
The Sun is revealing itself in dramatic detail and shedding light on how other stars may form and behave throughout
Read MoreWelcome to the Galactic Community (speculative mini-documentary video).
We often wonder how we might first meet extraterrestrials, muses Isaac Arthur in this speculative mini-documentary video, picturing flying saucers
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Milky Way: From 13.5 Billion Years Ago To The Infinite Future by Gemma Lavender (book review).
This has to be the longest book from Haynes yet. Not in terms of page count but the length of
Read MoreJeff Bezos versus Elon Musk: first to the stars, wins? (video doc).
The space race between the USA and USSR is now history, instead, there’s a private clash of egos between two
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