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It's Friday, which means it's time to embark on the greatest adventure of them all — the weekend. But before you leave for your vessel of exploration, let's celebrate by putting some inspiring scenes of space adventure on your computer desktop. More »
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We saw a glimpse of this indie flick several weeks back — now revel in the full trailer for the lunar Reich picture Iron Sky. As much as I'm loving the spaceship designs, I'm hoping the hamfisted political humor plays second fiddle to the insane orbital Nazi-smashing. Iron Sky opens April 4 in Finland, April 5 in Germany, and will expand to other countries soon after. Hat tip to Mike. More »
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As iconic as the spherical death-bringer is, the inner tinkerings of the Death Star still remain a great mystery. For example, if the Death Star suddenly materialized in the Solar System, how much energy would the vessel require to pulverize the Earth into bloody gravel? More »
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Should you look up Foxoak St, Cradley Heath, West Midlands B64, United Kingdom on Google Street View and move the camera toward the sky, you may notice something a bit off. I don't know what's more disconcerting: proof of alien battle cruisers or the fact that they've been cribbing human designs. More »
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Famous movie spaceships can have a rough time once the camera stops rolling. For instance, the Nostromo from Alien was discovered with a dead possum inside. The eponymous spaceship from Serenity had been consigned to a similarly undistinguished fate...until recently.

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We've seen the plastic spaceship design of LEGO craftsman Sven Junga previously — now check out his take on the Terran battlecruiser Hyperion from Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. As you can see, Junga is also assembling a larger Terran brick army to boot. More »
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This beauty may look like the love child of a flying saucer and a disco ball, but is actually a key component of Europe's most powerful rocket launcher. More »
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Here's another entry for the DIY African aircraft files. In Kampala, Uganda, Chris Nsamba — freelance aeronautics engineer and founder of the African Space Research Program — is building an airplane in his backyard. Once he's done with this project, Nsamba will move on to constructing a homemade space shuttle. More »
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We're used to marveling at the painted concept art that comes out alongside a big space epic. The incredible spaceship images, the gorgeous planetscapes. But back in the day, practical model builders created some views that were just as lovely. More »
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The idea for a 100-year starship has been tossed around recently, and now DARPA the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has put out a Request for Information (RFI) looking for ideas about how a long-term human mission to boldly go out to the stars could possibly happen. More »
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We have a long way to go before we can get a probe to another star in the space of a human lifetime. More »
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Check out this absolutely gorgeous spaceship art by Charles Guan — it feels reminiscent of Ralph McQuarrie's Star Wars art, but also some of our favorite space video game art. In Guan's art, spaceships like minnows move amongst dazzling flashes. More »
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No, there's no weird birth imagery, mostly naked dancing, or random extra heads. But Take That's "Kidz" video, which also came out on Monday, is almost as silly and science-fictional as Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." More »
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Joseph Shoer of Cornell University has built a levitating model spacecraft to demonstrate how a tractor beam could potentially work in real life. In the video, Shoer uses a "ludicrous" neodymium magnet to manipulate his non-ferromagnetic model which floats on air. Says Shoer of his experiment: More »
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Boats made of nothing more than wood and tar still bore their modest cargo beneath the gleaming bulb where starships landed. More »
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Battle: Los Angeles' new viral marketing site has tons of intel on the invading alien scourge. Listen to the mecha beasts squeal, check out their command center, and get a better look at their water mines. More »
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In 1967, model-making kit manufacturers Revell ran advertisements for "the wildest, way out prize ever awarded in any contest." What was the prize? Your own 19-foot-long prototype of a Gemini capsule. The winner also got a guitar! More »
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Maybe you want to argue over which ship could kick another ship's ass, or maybe you just want to ogle lots and lots of pretty spaceship pictures. Either way, you need to check out Jordan Hoffman's 100 greatest spaceships list. More »
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Now you can get lucky in the backseat of the Millennium Falcon, with this decal. Just think of the annoying quotation potential! We'll get you started: "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts." [Buzzfeed] More »
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In 2000, the European Space Agency sent four spacecraft into the magnetosphere, to study how the magnetic field around the planet works. For a decade, the craft have analyzed the aurora, solar winds, and more. How do they do it? More »
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It's possibly the strangest UFO we've ever seen. And it's been captured on film, along with several others like it. More »
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It was made out of pieces of everything: old jet cones, cruise liners, truck shells. But it flew. Covered in antennae technology from four different decades, and polished to a sheen, that ship was a marvel of speculative mechanical engineering. More »
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Here's Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two cruising over the Mojave Desert last Thursday. The VSS Enterprise spacecraft didn't travel into suborbital space but stayed affixed to its mothership. Virgin's planned price for a few minutes of suborbital views? $200,000. More »
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At Sci-Fi Air Show, the spacecraft of yesteryear are refurbished and displayed for awed audiences. The catch? The site is from an alternate dimension in which these spaceships existed. In other words, Stanley Kubrick really filmed 2001 in deep space. More »
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South Polk Elementary School in Leesville, LA might be getting a few renovations but to us it looks absolutely perfect... Perfect to train young Starfleet Officers, that is. Check out the even more convincing blueprints below. More »
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We've sung the praises of Star Wars concept artist John Berkey's portrayals of arcologies and urban monoliths, but it's worth noting how prolific the guy was. Here are some of his pulpier works that showcase space turkeys and guppies. [Net-Cafe] More »
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Concept art company Massive Black has done artwork for movies, comics, video games, toys, and more. It's easy to see why from their artwork, which instantly create worlds so vivid, I'm actually angry I can't see more of these places. More »
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We love the gritty, battle-damaged feel of Lin Chen's walker, stomping down the street of a ruined city while someone waves a flag from up top. Chen, aka Wanbao, also does some amazing killer robots, including Transformers, and spaceships. More »
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Ryan Todd of Darklord Disco has compiled a massive found art gallery of cosmic disco and funk LP sleeves. Equal parts Studio 54 and Mos Eisley, the covers re-imagine outer space as a non-stop party with lots of zero-G nipples. More »
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This photo from the set of Green Lantern offers a first glimpse of what's likely Abin Sur's downed spaceship. Abin Sur was Hal Jordan's precursor in the Green Lantern corps; he gave his GL ring to Hal on his deathbed. More »
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British comic Dan Dare is coming to the big screen, starring scifi hunk-du-jour Sam Worthington. But back in the 1980s, legendary model-maker Martin Bower created these designs for a Dan Dare movie that never got made. Look back in wonder. More »
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Ever wonder what sort of galactic visions brewed in the Eastern Bloc? These vintage illustrations from Soviet science and technology publication Teknika Molodezhi give an awesome look at (fictional) Reds in space. Also, behold the incredible Soviet corkscrew-wheeled truck! More »
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There's nothing hotter than feeling your spaceship throb beneath you as it switches into FTL drive. Same goes for the smooth metal touch of a car. Want to get busy with your machine? Here's a list of people who have. More »
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Energia Productions is a Finnish design firm that's produced some amazing concept designs, including this series, which combines World War II imagery with flying saucers and a ship that looks awfully like the Enterprise. More »
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A pirate ship slices through space in concept art from the lost Dune movie of the 1970s. Artist Chris Foss crafted covers for some of science fiction's greatest books, reshaping how we see spaceships and robots. Check out our gallery. More »
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Though spaceships exist firmly in the realm of science and rationality, that doesn't mean they can't be invaded by fantastical visions and spooky ghosts. Here's a gallery of space vessels whose crews aren't entirely of this universe. More »
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The Visual Aid book series is chock full of fun and fascinating infographics that explain everything from the space race timeline to the relative sizes of the dinosaurs. And they've distilled their visual information onto handy posters. More »
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Cartoonist Mark Anderson is using Lego blocks to invent new imaginary spaceships, but with a small twist: each ship's design is based on a letter of the alphabet. More »
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New Pandorum concept art shows a dark, time-worn spaceship command center, with rusty bulkheads and a cool-looking holographic user interface surrounding the captain's chair. And click through to see another piece of concept art, showing the inevitable service crawlway. More »
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Over the years, erosion revealed what lay beneath the Antarctic mountains. Scientists dubbed them "habitation discs," and they were all that remained of was was once a teeming city within these frozen peaks. More »
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