Marina Koren
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Joe Raedle / Getty Jeff Bezos Knows Who Paid for Him to Go to Space
The world’s richest man commissioned the rocket, but his Amazon empire—the customers and the workers—covered the bill.
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NASA Jeff Bezos Is Ready to Cross a Cosmically Controversial Line
The billionaire is preparing to fly to space—but where does space actually begin?
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NASA Maybe It’s Aliens, or Maybe It’s Volcanoes
Scientists are still trying to figure out what could be brewing on the planet next door.
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Isaiah J. Downing / Reuters Jeff Bezos Has Picked an Unusual Space Crew
No group like this one has ever gone to space before.
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Virgin Galactic / Reuters Richard Branson Pulled It Off
One space billionaire has now made it to space and back. Jeff Bezos is next.
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Trevor Paulhus; Courtesy of Blue Origin Guess Who’s Going to Space With Jeff Bezos?
Wally Funk has been ready to become an astronaut for six decades.
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Carl Knox / OzGrav / Swinburne University An Event So Wild It Could Make Anyone Feel Cosmically Small
Gravitational waves have brought us long-sought proof of a cataclysmic meeting between a black hole and a neutron star.
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OpenSpace / American Museum of Natural History When ‘the Aliens Are Us’
Two astronomers tracked the star systems that, if they had life, could look toward us and discover our planet the same way we detect others.
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The Atlantic Drivers Never Learn the One Lesson of Cicada Season
Brood X always leaves behind a spate of weird stories.
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Science Photo Library / Getty ; Adam Maida … A Strangely Comforting Finding About Alien Rain
Whether they’re made of iron or quartz, raindrops on other worlds are about the same size as those on Earth.
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Fox Photos / Getty / Mandel Ngan / … Jeff Bezos Has Reached His Final Form
The Amazon billionaire is going to fly to space this year. So might Richard Branson. Has anyone checked with Elon Musk?
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NASA / JPL-Caltech Move Over, Mars
After decades away, NASA is sending not one, but two missions to Venus.
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Shell R. Alpert / LOC / Corbis / … If Aliens Are Out There, They’re Way Out There
Real evidence of extraterrestrial life will come from a distant corner of space, not UFOs in our sky.
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Paul Spella / Getty / The Atlantic The New ‘Right Stuff’ Is Money and Luck
Rich people are heading to space, and they’re changing what it means to be an astronaut.
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STR / AFP / Getty Don’t Fall to Pieces Just Because China’s Rocket Is
No one knows where the discarded piece of hardware might land, but there's no reason to panic.
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Justin Chin / Bloomberg / Getty / The … Elon Musk Is Maybe, Actually, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing
From his private Cape Canaveral, the billionaire is manifesting his own interplanetary reality—whatever the cost.
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Getty / The Atlantic The World’s Richest Men Are Brawling Over the Moon
NASA gave Elon Musk’s SpaceX a coveted contract for a lunar mission. Jeff Bezos plans to fight for it.
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Jason Major/ NASA / JPL-Caltech No, You’re Crying About a Helicopter on Mars
NASA just flew a tiny (and totally lovable) robot on another planet for the first time.
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O. Hainaut / ESO An Interstellar Visitor Had a Sad Story to Tell
A hint of warmth from our sun helped reveal a mysterious comet’s secrets.
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Courtesy of Joshua Rhoades An Eerie Glow in the Sky Might Come From Mars’s Direction
A spacecraft on its way to Jupiter made a surprising discovery about interplanetary dust.
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