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As soon as he returns from the International Space Station, NASA's first and only yearlong spaceman, Scott Kelly, will try to pop up from a lying position and stand still for three minutes.

NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is working adeptly in some of the most challenging terrain of the vehicle's 12 years on Mars, on a slope of about 30 degrees....

In March 2013, researchers at the CERN laboratory made history when they announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Though its existence had been hypothesized for over half a century, confirming its existence was a majo...

Usually, there are only four Mondays in February. But this year's February is weird*: It'll have five Mondays. Why? It's leap year! A lot of folks get confused on why exactly we even have leap years. The answer is simple...

This image taken Jan. 14, 2015, acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows the glaciers of Sierra de Sangra, an icy stratovolcano spanning the border of Chile and Argentina....

SpaceX aborted the launch of the SES-9 commercial communications satellite less than a second before liftoff this evening (Feb. 28), delaying the mission (which also includes a daring rocket-landing attempt) for the thir...

According to a Feb. 28th, 2016 Twitter post from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the launch was "aborted on low thrust alarm. Rising oxygen temps due to hold for boat and helium bubble triggered alarm."

The U.S. Air Force reveals the official image of the B-21, also known as Long Range Strike Bomber. The next-generation warplane will soon take the place of the outmoded B-52 and B-2 bombers.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - Following a pair of back to back launch scrubs this week on Wednesday and Thursday due to rocket fueling issues with the liquid oxygen propellant, SpaceX has reset the blast off of ...

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) An international team of scientists using a combination of radio and optical telescopes identified the distant location of a fast radio burst for the first time. This discovery h...