May 2, 2025 was National Space Day, an occasion to reflect on the history of the American spaceflight program for all its triumphs and tragedies, as well as to pause and consider all of the ...

More than four years after news first broke that Tom Cruise was preparing to shoot a movie in outer space, director Doug ...

For a long time, Jupiter had always been in my mind as that 'gas ball' composed of hydrogen and helium from documentaries. My imagination made me think that any celestial body could easily penetrate ...

Expanding human influence in outer space will require an ethical compass that is more expansive than the one conventionally used. “Mars is a failed Earth.” It is common enough to hear such ...

When Killer Klowns from Outer Space first hit theaters in 1988, audiences didn’t quite know what to make of it. Was it supposed to be scary? Funny? Completely ridiculous? The truth is that it was all ...

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