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Einstein predicted that time slows down the faster you travel and the time-dilation hypothesis has since been proven by flying atomic clocks on aircraft.

Researchers at the TSU Siberian Botanical Garden (SibBG), the Institute of High Current Electronics SB RAS (IHCE), and Tomsk Polytechnic University have implemented an interdisciplinary project to study the optimal param...

When SpaceX launches its first Crew Dragon capsule on a test mission to the International Space Station March 2, the vehicle will be carrying a humanoid dummy with a sleek black-and-white spacesuit.

And names a new co-showrunner.

An Apollo lunar module has taken a small step towards a giant display in Mississippi.

Corresponding with the three-year anniversary of their announcement hypothesizing the existence of a ninth planet in the solar system, Caltech's Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin are publishing a pair of papers analyzing...

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A five-week partial government shutdown could delay the launch of the first element of NASA's orbiting lunar outpost by as much as three months. SpaceNews.com

SpaceX is counting down to the March 2 launch of its first-ever Crew Dragon spacecraft and the weather forecast is 80-percent "go," NASA officials say.

If you want to share a meal with an alien, you may have to begin by broadening your definition of a meal. A lot.

Technology image of the week: this colourful microscopic view shows where two different metal 3D printing techniques meet

The first batch of satellites for OneWeb's enormous new global satellite internet constellation will launch into orbit today (Feb. 27), bringing our planet one step closer to having internet access everywhere.

What a difference a planetary flyby makes. Pluto's moon Charon--once no more than a fuzzy blob of pixels beside a larger blob--now has its first geological map, published in AGU's Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets...

Astronomers just discovered an object, dubbed FarFarOut, that lies 140 astronomical units from the sun. That's 140 times the Earth-sun distance, which is about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers).

The Red Planet makes a close approach to the blood-red moon in this photo taken during the longest total lunar eclipse of the century, on July 27, 2018.

The musical force known as "The Claypool Lennon Delirium" has awoken from its slumber once again to take listeners on a journey through space, time and humor on a new album aptly titled "South of Reality."

Carbon dioxide emissions could wipe out one of Earth's most common types of clouds. That's bad news.

Iceye, the Earth observation startup based in Helsinki, has hired two vice presidents to help customers gain access to imagery from its planned constellation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites. SpaceNews.com

(California Institute of Technology) Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin offer further clues about Planet Nine.

(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe) Dark matter may scatter against each other only when they hit the right energy, says international team of researchers in new study.

Over the course of the past two decades, observational surveys have unveiled the intricate orbital structure of the Kuiper Belt, a field of icy bodies orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune....

The cloud-covered Pacific coast of the South American nation of Chile contrasts with the Andes Mountain range and the cloud formations extending over Argentina....