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Buzz Aldrin is in place to watch the Falcon Heavy rocket's first test launch this afternoon (Feb. 6) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the rocket will take flight from the same pad that launched Aldrin's unprec...

New observations of the planets orbiting around the Trappist-1 star, described it as a "holy grail" discovery - which caused a stir when scientists found a whole set of Earth-like worlds circling it last year - show more...

SpaceX Launched its first Falcon Heavy today. All indications are that the flight has been a complete success thus far. More to follow. Pictures and video below....

The world's most powerful rocket, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, blasted off Tuesday on its highly anticipated maiden test flight, carrying CEO Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla roadster to an orbit near Mars.

The inaugural launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is happening today! Here's a prediction of what will happen to its payload: Musk's cherry-red Tesla Roadster The post Here’s a Prediction About the Orbit Musk’s ...

SoftBank is actively considering future investments in the satellite industry, including investments related to low-Earth orbit broadband startup OneWeb, the head of SoftBank's merger and acquisition and corporate financ...

This wild clip is taken from podcasting superstar Joe Rogan with paleontologist, Trevor Valle. Image credit: With thanks to Getty Images Recommended Space & Science Headlines "Alien Minds" --'Artificial Intelligence Is A...

Students from Boise State University and Timberline High School in Boise, Idaho, will speak with NASA astronauts living, working and doing research aboard the International Space Station at noon EST Thursday, Feb. 8.

High winds narrowed the window of opportunity Tuesday for SpaceX to launch its monster rocket, the Falcon Heavy, the most powerful in operation today and aimed at someday toting supplies to the Moon or even Mars.

A compact detector technology applicable to all types of cross-disciplinary scientific investigations has found a home on a new CubeSat mission designed to find the electromagnetic counterparts of events that generate gr...

Fresh off a record-breaking spacewalk last week, the International Space Station program is preparing for its first docking of a cargo craft in just two orbits. Back inside the orbital lab, the Expedition 54 crew researc...

Stephen Hawking predicts that the world's mounting population will consume enough energy to render the world a "ball of fire" within 600 years. Speaking via video Sunday at Beijing's Tencent WE Summit, Hawking declared t...

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Whether a success or a failure, the first test flight of the world's current most powerful rocket guarantees fireworks --

"We knew about the cold," says David Lauren, chief innovation officer at Ralph Lauren, "and hit on the idea of using wearable technology to keep our athletes warm." The result: bonded to the interior of the red, white an...

When SpaceX launched its giant Falcon Heavy rocket Tuesday (Feb. 6), President Donald Trump was apparently watching.

Elon Musk hopes the first test launch of SaceX's Falcon Heavy megarocket will be a success -- but the SpaceX CEO has provided a lot of details about how it could go wrong, from synchronized shaking to "cannonballing" ice...

SpaceX's big new rocket stood ready to blast off on its first test flight Tuesday, as crowds began gathering at daybreak for the afternoon launch debut.

For the last 2.5 billion years, surface life on Earth has thrived largely due to the evolution of photosynthesis. Surface life is abundant and very successful because of the availability of sunlight, surface water, gener...

Viruses are the most abundant and one of the least understood biological entities on Earth. In their invisible, parallel world on Earth they kill half the bacteria in the ocean every day, and invade a microbe host 10 tri...

Quick access to space, high-speed data feed and a unique vantage point are the selling points of a new commercial venture on the International Space Station. Its name is Bartolomeo, and its versatile design allows for ma...

An international team of astronomers has found three new millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in a Milky Way globular cluster called Terzan 5. The new discovery increases the number of identified pulsars in Terzan 5 to 37 and make...