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Artist's impression of a city on Mars, which SpaceX wants to help establish with its Starship transportation system.

Colonizing Mars may require humanity to tweak its DNA

By Mike Wall

Genetic enhancement could allow humanity to push surprisingly far out into the final frontier.

A Boeing image shows the X-37B in its capsule before launch.

Why a microwave-beam experiment will launch aboard the Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane

By Rafi Letzter

There's a microwave power experiment heading to space Saturday (May 16) aboard the Air Force's secretive X-37B spaceplane. Researchers hope it could lead to a new global power source.

Spaceflight

NASA's Surveyor 1 moon lander photographs its shadow on the lunar surface in this image taken after the probe's historic landing on June 2, 1966.

On This Day in Space! June 2, 1966: Surveyor 1 becomes 1st American spacecraft to soft-land on the moon

By Hanneke Weitering

On June 2, 1966, NASA's Surveyor 1 reached the lunar surface. See how it happened in our On This Day in Space video series!

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley wave goodnight to their families from space on May 30, 2020.

Space Webcasts: Crew Dragon astronauts call SpaceX from space station

By Space.com Staff

After safely arriving at the International Space Station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft this weekend, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will phone home from today.

Science & Astronomy

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, on May 31, 2020.

Pictures from space! Our image of the day

By Space.com Staff

SpaceX's Crew Dragon approaches the International Space Station with Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board in this photo captured by an astronaut inside the orbiting lab on Sunday (May 31).

The gargantuan Fermi Bubbles are only visible in gamma-ray light. Where did they come from?

Mysterious 'Fermi Bubbles' may be the result of black hole indigestion 6 million years ago

By Brandon Specktor

Twin shock waves produced by the galaxy's central black hole could have inflated the gargantuan Fermi Bubbles about 6 million years ago, a new study suggests.

Search For Life

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in southwest China's Guizhou Province.

Ready, SETI, go: Is there a race to contact E.T.?

By Leonard David

Researchers using China's huge new FAST radio telescope are piecing together a technological strategy to carry out a major and sweeping search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

The dark streaks on some Martian slopes known as recurring slope lineae — imaged here by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — may be caused by salty liquid water, some scientists think.

Mars may be wetter than we thought (but still not that habitable)

By Mike Wall

Mars is wetter than previously thought, but not in a way that boosts its life-hosting potential, a new study suggests.

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter's southern hemisphere on Feb. 17, 2020. Jupiter has a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and, while researchers don't think there's life on Jupiter, a new study shows that life can survive in a pure hydrogen environment.

Could life thrive on hydrogen-rich alien worlds?

By Chelsea Gohd

Life can thrive in a 100% hydrogen atmosphere, according to a new study. The finding could completely change our understanding of how (and where) life might exist in the universe.

Skywatching

The full Strawberry Moon rises over Manhattan in this photo taken by John Entwistle on June 9, 2017.

June full moon 2020: The 'Strawberry Moon' brings a penumbral lunar eclipse

By Jesse Emspak

The full moon of June, also called the Strawberry Moon, will occur June 5 at 3:12 p.m. EDT (1912 GMT). That same day, a penumbral lunar eclipse will be visible in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Best night sky events of June 2020 (stargazing maps)

By Chris Vaughan

See what's up in the night sky for June 2020, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

This SpaceX map shows the orbital path of the Demo-2 Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station. They launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020.

You can see SpaceX's 1st Crew Dragon with astronauts in the night sky tonight. Here's how.

By Joe Rao

If the skies are clear this evening (May 30), observers across the central and northern United States and southern Canada could get an opportunity to see Crew Dragon move across their local skies.

Entertainment

A blue and pink sequined dinosaur floats for the first time on board SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule after entering Earth orbit. The doll, chosen by the crew's sons, served as the zero-g indicator.

SpaceX 'stowaway' revealed by crew as sons' dinosaur toy 'Tremor'

By Robert Z. Pearlman

A stowaway aboard SpaceX's first mission to launch astronauts to the International Space Station may have set a new record — the most sequins to enter Earth orbit.

How to watch SpaceX's historic 1st Demo-2 astronaut launch live online

By Tariq Malik

There's many options to watch SpaceX's historic Demo-2 astronaut launch on TV, cable news and — of course — online. Here's how.

Yes, space fans, there are rockets in Netflix's "Space Force."

Netflix's 'Space Force' is everything we hoped it would be

By Chelsea Gohd

Netflix's new "Space Force" series is the inside joke that went too far: and we love it.

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