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Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, has had his name removed from a Space Foundation fundraiser, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization, removed Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's name from a fu…
Sam Tabahriti
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Billionaire investor Yuri Milner says he is going to spend $100 million renting massive telescopes to search for life on other planets
These tools are now reaping a harvest of discoveries. In the last few years, astronomers and the Ke…
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Virgin Galactic's first space tourism passengers only spent a few minutes floating weightless above the Earth, and their experience still mirrored other astronauts' in 3 key ways
When three civilians entered space yesterday with Virgin Galactic, they felt some of the same thing…
Maiya Focht
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A close Russian ally is messing with the legendary spaceport it leases to the Kremlin, seizing assets over an unpaid debt
The Baikonur base in Kazakhstan was the cradle of the Soviet space program — and is now the center …
Tom Porter
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More layoffs may still come for tech workers
In this edition, we look at why layoffs are still in the offing for tech workers, Twitter becoming …
Emilia David
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Here's what William Shatner would have seen on his trip to space aboard Blue Origin as his new book says it 'felt like a funeral'
Star Trek star William Shatner described the void of actual space as "ominous darkness," though he …
Taylor Rains
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On this day 60 years ago, President John F. Kennedy pledged the US would land a person on the moon. Decades later, NASA has a plan to go back.
As NASA prepares to blast off its new moon rocket, the space agency is poised to return to the moon…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Russia chose a 36-year-old patriotic film star to send to space, sparking a race with Tom Cruise to be first to shoot a movie in orbit
Yulia Peresild is set to undergo space training before launching for the ISS on October 5, Roscosmo…
Marianne Guenot
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A report says China tested a new hypersonic missile capability, but Beijing says it was testing spacecraft technology
A missile defense expert told Insider that the media report and China's claims about what happened …
Ryan Pickrell
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The royal family is back to business as usual, sending a clear message about where their priorities lie after Harry and Meghan's bombshell interview
After Harry and Meghan's interview, Prince William and Kate Middleton promoted mental health in sch…
Darcy Schild
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The story of the first ever space wedding, when a woman on Earth married a cardboard cutout of her astronaut boyfriend while he watched on from the International Space Station
The ceremony wasn't actually planned in this groundbreaking way, according to the BBC. Their weddin…
Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker
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Alex Trebek was America's greatest pop-culture intellectual
The long-standing host of "Jeopardy!" was once touted as the eighth-most trusted American. His lega…
Chris Weller
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Stephen Hawking and a Russian billionaire are announcing a mysterious space exploration plan
Milner's interest in science runs deep. He was working on a PhD in physics before becoming a Silico…
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The US didn't send the first Black person into space — the Soviet Union did with the launch of Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, an Afro-Cuban man who cleared the way for others to follow
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez launched into orbit on September 18, 1980, and became an official hero to Cub…
Dave Mosher
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John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, has been laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery
"Senator Glenn was more than an astronaut - he was the hero we needed in a rapidly changing world a…
AFP,Business Insider
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Jeff Bezos offers a vision of flying through space colonies with our own wings. But is that the best way to save the human race?
Jeff Bezos sees space as a place where the weather could be like Maui, and, without gravity, where …
Abigail Higgins
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Stephen Hawking and a Russian billionaire want to send iPhone-size robots to a star 25 trillion miles away
Milner's interest in science runs deep. He was working on a PhD in physics before becoming a Silico…
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What humans will look like on Mars
As exciting as it may sound, there is a potential downside to all of this. If, one day in the futur…
María Soledad González Romero,Jordan Bowman
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Russia's capital now has its own version of Pokemon Go - with historical figures
Ruling party MP Yevgeny Fyodorov accused the app's developers of using it to cause "mass disturbanc…
Louise Liu
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British astronaut Tim Peake is about to blast off to the ISS in an historic day for the British space sector
In fact, Peake is - technically - British astronaut number four. There is also Helen Sharman, who b…