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With a key test completed and a launch license in hand, Exos Aerospace is preparing for the first flight of its reusable suborbital rocket in April. SpaceNews.com

Media accreditation is open for the launch of NASA's next mission to Mars - the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport spacecraft (InSight) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Califor...

A Soyuz capsule carrying two Americans and a Russian cosmonaut has docked with the International Space Station.

In the past decade, China’s space program has advanced by leaps and bounds. In recent years, the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA) has overseen the development of a modern rocket family (the Long March series), the ...

It's hard to yell "BACK OFF!" when you have no lungs, but this caterpillar has figured out a way. Under attack, the Nessus sphinx moth caterpillar emits a sort of crackling buzz from its mouth. Scientists compare the unu...

According to a new study by a team from UC Berkeley, the existence of oceans on Mars may have had to do a lot with early volcanic activity The post Volcanoes on Mars Helped Form its Early Oceans appeared first on Univers...

When plants on Earth search for nutrients and water, what drives their direction? Very simply, gravitational force helps them find the easiest path to the substances they need to grow and thrive. What happens if gravity ...

Four exciting space documentaries will make their American debut on the Smithsonian Channel over the next two Sundays (March 25 and April 1). Together, the films tell humanity's story from the perspective of space.

A new NASA computer model identifies landslide hazards around the world in near real time, potentially allowing scientists and first responders to get a jump on these natural disasters, a new study reports.

For the first time, the European Space Agency has tested a novel air-breathing electric thruster that could allow near-Earth orbiting satellites to stay in space almost indefinitely.

Missiles that spit out warheads traveling up to 20 times the speed of sound and with the ability to perform elusive acrobatics may be too much for the U.S. defenses to block, U.S. Stratcom chief says.

"The world ultimately will have a single currency, the internet will have a single currency. I personally believe that it will be bitcoin," Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey told England's The Times. Despite recent wea...

"Pacific Rim: Uprising," which opens in U.S. theaters today (March 23), is a sequel that had many tools for succeeding, but uneven plot and weak action will frustrate viewers before the good stuff finally happens.

"I try not to be religious about my own results. It's important to keep a skeptical eye," says Caltech's Konstantin Batygin. "But I actually feel more comfortable than I did two years ago, because the theory still holds ...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A 2-billion-year-old chunk of sea salt provides new evidence for the transformation of Earth's atmosphere into an oxygenated environment capable of supporting life as we know it. "Instead of a trickle, it was more like a...

Our week through the lens: 19-23 March 2018

"The inflow of plastic to the patch continues to exceed the outflow," said oceanographer Laurent Lebreton. "What's more, the scale of the largest plastic dump on the planet literally only scratches the surface of the pro...

A defunct Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, is expected to fall to Earth any day now--on March 31, give or take a few days. When it does, it will be the largest manmade object to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in a decade.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet. An image mosaic taken by the rover in January offers a preview of what comes next.

With the Sentinel-3B satellite now at the Plesetsk launch site in Russia and liftoff set for 25 April, engineers are steaming ahead with the task of getting Europe's next Copernicus satellite ready for its journey into o...

The new National Geographic documentary series "One Strange Rock," is the story of planet Earth, told by the people who have left it. The show's creators and the astronauts who participated in it say the series captures ...