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Aurora Station: The First Outer Space Luxury Hotel

TECH & INNOVATION With training, a small deposit and a large fare, the luxury hotel is targeted for launch in 2021. Orion Span, a Houston-based company, is looking to put the world's first luxury hotel in space by 2021, followed by its first guests the following year.

Scientists Track Giant Ocean Vortex From Space

Researchers have found a new way to use satellites to monitor the Great Whirl, a massive whirlpool the size of Colorado that forms each year off the coast of East Africa, they report in a new study.

10 Years Later, NASA Explains Why Two Rocket Launches Were Failures

NASA lets everyone in on what exactly happened to two Taurus XL launches. A little more than a decade ago, on February 24, 2009, a Taurus XL rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying a NASA satellite designed to measure carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

The Dead Could Outnumber the Living on Facebook by 2070

The number of dead users could increase to 4.9 billion before the end of the century Academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), a section of the University of Oxford, have made a recent analysis that predicts the dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within fifty years, a drift that will have severe consequences on how we handle our digital heritage in the future.

Pericyte Injections in Astronauts

A new trial addresses a pressing issue in space exploration. We've always been seeing news about how we've been sending people to space and gathering endless data but we see very less of news about how these people are fairing in space and when they're back on earth.

OSCAR: The Space Janitor

Researchers are developing a cleanup CubeSat which would hunt down and de-orbit debris on the cheap using onboard nets and tethers.

How the Ice on Mars Melts

Researchers suggest a magma chamber may have been formed under the surface of Mars to help heat up the ice cap.

NASA Recorded First Marsquake

Seismometer on Mars recorded a 40-second seismic wave for the first time. NASA's Mars InSight lander may have just measured and recorded for the first time an earthquake - well, in this case, a "Marsquake".
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