Space News

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In a speech at the 2007 Venice Film Festival at special screening of his seminal noir thriller Blade Runner, Sir Ridley Scott, the legendary director of Alien, announced that he believes that science-fiction as a genre i...

India's maiden Mars explorer, the Mars Orbiter Mission or MOM, celebrated 100 days speeding through space this past week, racing outwards on its historic journey to the Red Planet. After streaking through space for some ...

The space agency's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer spacecraft (called LADEE for short) sent photos of the moon -- released on Feb. 13 -- back to ground controllers on Earth earlier this month. The new imag...

Neutrinos are some of the most abundant, curious, and elusive critters in particle physics. Incredibly lightweight — nigh massless, according to the Standard Model — as well as chargeless, they zip around the Univers...

The mystery of the world famous "Jelly Doughnut" rock on Mars has at last been solved by diligent mission scientists toiling away in dank research labs on Earth. The "Jelly Doughnut" rock achieved worldwide fame, or bett...