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The physicist Neils Bohr once said to a colleague, "your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." For many scientists, the most exciting result of the LIGO discovery of gravitational waves is that astronom...

Only three months after the catastrophic launch pad explosion of their commercial Falcon 9 rocket in Florida, SpaceX has set Dec. 16 as the date for the boosters 'Return to Flight' launch from California with the first b...

Virgin Galactic's new spaceship has made a successful first glide flight, a key step after a deadly crash of its predecessor two years ago, the spaceflight company said on Saturday.

Our neighborhood of planets was not created slowly, as scientists once thought, but in a speedy blur of high-energy crashes, destruction and rebuilding --

The physicist Neils Bohr once said to a colleague, "your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." For many scientists, the most exciting result of the LIGO discovery of gravitational waves is that astronom...

The Virgin Galactic suborbital vehicle entered its second phase of testing on Dec. 3, 2016. It was released from its WhiteKnightTwo mothership and glided back down to the Mojave Air and Space Port in California after 10 ...

On Dec. 1, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden helped kick off a yearlong centennial celebration for the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia with several events highlighting the work of the African Americ...

A material known as metallic glass, created by liquefying and then rapidly cooling metal, might be an ideal material for making gears for spacefaring robots, according to new research.

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