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The 19th launch of the Falcon 9 vehicle from SpaceX Sunday morning resulted in the rocket exploding around 2:20 seconds into flight. Unclear whether the rocket exploded or something went wrong and the Flight Safety Officer exploded the vehicle.
Skywatchers are in for a celestial treat, as two of the brightest planets – Jupiter and Venus – converge upon each other.
A NASA anchoring system that cleans up space trash is modeled on geckos.
The 14-day NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 20 expedition is slated to begin July 20.
Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working to create designer organisms that would have abilities to terraform the Red Planet into Earth.
NASA is about to launch its most ambitious venture yet: To probe the depths of the ice moon Europa, to see if there's life in the ocean beneath.
Strange and changeable lakes might form just as certain water-filled lakes do on Earth
What to expect when you're expecting a flyby: Planning your July around New Horizons' Pluto Pictures (version 2)
Science fiction may be ruling the season at your neighborhood movie theater, but there's plenty of real-life space action going on this summer, thanks to some very hard-working machines.
Dawn spacecraft has captured more images of mysterious bright spots on Ceres, and also spotted a baffling pyramid-shaped peak towering over a relatively flat landscape on the dwarf planet.
A NEW BOOK SHOWCASES IMAGES FROM THE FORGOTTEN GEMINI MISSION, WHICH TAUGHT NASA HOW TO LIVE AND WORK IN SPACE
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Interstellar echoes from a flaring neutron star have allowed astronomers to solve a mystery -- pinpointing the star's location.
Yes, I know that headline sounds like it comes from the 1998 movie "Armageddon" starting Bruce Willis, but this is actually happening.
I recently had the unique experience of visiting Congress to discuss its support for space exploration.
The Rosetta spacecraft won't die next winter after all. The European Space Agency announced on Tuesday that the orbiter's mission will be extended by nine months as it tracks Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko across the solar system.
A top Russian official is calling for an international investigation into NASA's Apollo lunar missions, arguing that the disappearance of the original footage of the moon landing and some 400 kilograms of lunar rocks is suspicious and worthy of an
The film Interstellar should be shown in school science lessons, a scientific journal has urged.
A new decentralized space venture has recently begun, formed by a recent partnership with BitNation and Spacechain.
If you thought Ceres' spots were weird, wait until you see its mystifying pyramid.
The lead spacecraft in Europe's new multi-billion-euro Earth observation programme is set to go into orbit.
Europa is an ice-covered moon orbiting Jupiter that likely an ocean underneath. Perhaps that ocean contains life. Perhaps it doesn't. But we're not going to know for sure until we send a probe there to check things out.
Europa is an ice-covered moon orbiting Jupiter that likely an ocean underneath. Perhaps that ocean contains life. Perhaps it doesn't. But we're not going to know for sure until we send a probe there to check things out.
European scientists are planning a risky maneuver to get their Rosetta spacecraft closer to the comet it is orbiting, so it can communicate with its robotic lander on the surface and start experiments that could unlock some of the universe's secrets.
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Earlier this month, SpaceX carried out a successful test of the Crew Dragon's Launch Abort System (LAS), which would carry the capsule to safety in the event of an emergency.
'Roomy' Blue Origin Capsule Provides Incredible Space Tourist Experience | Animation
More than 1,100 satellites are orbiting the Earth right now transmitting TV shows and phone calls, collecting rainforest data and spying on missile bases around the planet. Most are expensive, costing tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to build,
It took over 95,600 NASA photo files taken from the International Space Station and a month of meticulous photo editing to produce this epic high-definition time-lapse video.
Yesterday at a press conference in the Flatiron district in NYC, I and a few other journalists were treated to a showing and presentation of some spectacular video footage of the Earth from space by UrtheCast.
