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On board Virgin Orbit’s flying launchpad
Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit is taking an unusual approach to putting satellites in space: the ... -
This is SpaceX’s very first human crew
This year, if all goes well, astronauts will launch to space on a private craft for the first tim... -
What zero gravity really feels like in the “vomit comet”
We cover a lot of space stories at The Verge, but this is the closest we’ve gotten to actually go... -
NASA’s InSight Mars landing: what it really took
After a six-month long journey, NASA’s InSight spacecraft successfully landed on Mars. The probe ... -
The new supercomputer behind the US nuclear arsenal
“Sierra” was just crowned the second-most powerful supercomputer on the planet. And while most of... -
Supersonic air travel is finally coming back
Supersonic air travel is back. 15 years after the Concorde was grounded, everyone from aerospace ... -
88,000 tons of radioactive waste – and nowhere to put it
The United States produces 2,200 tons of nuclear waste each year…and no one knows what to do with... -
A microscopic look at why the world is running out of sand
Humans are using more sand than the Earth is naturally producing, and that’s a problem for the gl... -
This monster plant is trying to take over. What if we let it?
Silicon Valley is home to tech giants, venture capital…and a years-long battle between an invasiv... -
Building a lunar base out of Moon dust
Welcome to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Here, engineers are dreaming up new technologies that wil... -
We met the world’s first domesticated foxes
We met the very cute and very bizarre result of an almost 60-year-long experiment: they’re foxes ... -
Why Tesla is building city-sized batteries
We talked to the co-founder of Tesla, JB Straubel, about why giant batteries are crucial to the f...