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SpaceX plans to inaugurate its new, more-powerful Falcon 9 rocket this summer, using the same Merlin 1D engine with a modified fuel mix and other changes to extend the company's planned reuse of the first stage to cover ...

A's comet probe Rosetta has for the first time ever measured nitrogen gas at a comet, providing clues to the early stages of the formation of our solar system. Molecular nitrogen, N2, is the major molecule in the atmosph...

From St. Patrick's day in space to a spectacular solar eclipse, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for March 21, 2015.

The online project Spaceprob.es is a one-stop-shop website for learning about all the human-made space probes currently studying the cosmos, and features sharp graphic designs of all the probes, available as posters and ...

"It is possible that pulsars imploding into black holes may provide the first concrete signal of particulate dark matter," said study co-author Joseph Bramante, a physicist at the University of Notre Dame. "In 2013, the ...

Panasonic Corp., whose Panasonic Avionics subsidiary has cobbled together a global network of satellite bandwidth for an in-flight Internet service, has reached agreement to acquire ITC Global, which provides satellite c...

Mars One has delayed its launch plans by two years -- again. In a video released by the Dutch nonprofit March 19, CEO Bas Lansdorp said that delays in raising funding forced them to push back robotic missions scheduled f...

Now here's something you don't see every day: snow in Hawaii! To be fair, that's the Mauna Kea volcano on the Big Island, and it tops out at 4,200 meters (13,800 feet). It's commonly cold up there, of course, but snow is...

The mission of Operation IceBridge is to collect data on changing polar land and sea ice and maintain continuity of measurements between NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) missions....

During the morning of March 20, 2015, a total solar eclipse was visible from parts of Europe, and a partial solar eclipse from northern Africa and northern Asia....

As Europe enjoyed a partial solar eclipse on the morning of Friday 20 March 2015, ESA's Sun-watching Proba-2 minisatellite had a ringside seat from orbit...

NASA Astronaut Terry Virts on the International Space Station tweeted this sunny day Caribbean image out....

A total eclipse of the sun on Friday thrilled skywatchers across Europe, Africa and Asia where it was visible, but nowhere was the view as perfect as in the air aboard a chartered jet soaring over the top of the world.