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Engineers detected a pressure decrease in the Falcon 9 rocket's second stage in the leadup to launch, which was scheduled for 6:08 p.m. EDT (2208 GMT) Friday (June 20) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

India's inaugural voyager to the Red Planet, the Mars Orbiter Mission or MOM, has just celebrated 100 days and 100 million kilometers out from Mars on June 16, until the crucial Mars Orbital Insertion (MOI) engine firing...

The team of astrophysicists led by John Kovac of Harvard who announced just months ago what they acheived a breakthrough in confirming how the universe was born when they identified gravitational waves that rippled throu...

At Kennedy Space Center, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, Kennedy Center Director Bob Cabana and other officials invited the media to view prelaunch progress of the Orion spacecraft....

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From a strange gas stream blotting out a galaxy's bright core to perfect espresso in space, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for June 21, 2014.

Moviegoers were recently treated to "Noah," an epic story of bravery and sacrifice from the Old Testament, a saga in which the titular character takes on the divine mission to build an ark to save creation from an apocal...

Are you a Doctor Who fan? Are you also scratching your head over how relativity works? Then do I have a paper for you: "The Blue Box White Paper", an explanation of how space and time work under the auspices of Einstein'...