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SpaceX fired up its Starhopper test vehicle for its biggest hop yet Wednesday (July 24), but the rocket prototype aborted the launch just seconds into the attempt.

Millions of people have signed up to a tongue-in-cheek Facebook event to storm the US military base "Area 51" on 20 September to discover whether aliens are inside. While the organisers said it was a joke, the US militar...

Europe is facing another extreme heatwave, with many countries reaching record-breaking temperatures

SpaceX was forced to abort its first free flight test of the Starhopper yesterday (and again today) due to fires breaking out. The post First Free Flight of SpaceX’s Starhopper Aborted After Engine Fire appeared first ...

A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station Wednesday, July 31. Live coverage of the resupply craft's launch and docking will begin at 7:45 a.m. EDT on NASA Television an...

Forecasters predict a 30% chance of favorable weather today for the liftoff of a U.S. cargo craft at 6:24 p.m. EDT from Florida....

A Russian satellite has captured a striking image of a volcano erupting in Peru.

By analyzing the gravitational tug of the Milky Way's giant black hole on a nearby star, astronomers have shown that Einstein's ideas about space and time still hold true as the best description yet of how gravity works.

Boeing has informed the Air Force that it will not bid Ground Based Strategic Deterrent engineering and manufacturing development. SpaceNews.com

There are at least two different types of marsquakes, new research suggests.

NASA released these panoramic images of the Apollo landing sites for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11.

The next launch window for Mars missions opens next summer, and four big-ticket missions aim to take full advantage.

This week, The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft has successfully deployed its solar sail, which propels the craft with the power of sunlight.

On 31 March 2017, Jupiter's moon Europa passed in front of a background star--a rare event that was captured for the first time by ground-based telescopes thanks to data provided by ESA's Gaia spacecraft.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

A 100-metre-wide asteroid passed just 70,000km from Earth on Thursday, Australian time. It was discovered by the Brazilian SONEAR survey just days ago, and its presence was announced mere hours before it zoomed past our ...

Researchers are seeking the public's help in locating fragments of a fireball that shone as bright as the full moon observed by Western's All-Sky Camera Network across at 2:44 a.m. ET this morning.

Neal Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins departed from the moon 50 years ago, but one of the experiments they left behind continues to return fresh data to this day: arrays of prisms that reflect light back toward...

A research team led by UNSW Canberra scientist Ivo Seitenzahl is shining a new light on the evolution of supernovae--a hotly contested topic amongst astrophysicists.

iSpace became the first Chinese private firm to achieve orbit with Thursday's successful launch from a national space center in the Gobi Desert. SpaceNews.com

The first round-trip to the Red Planet will see a European orbiter bringing martian samples back to Earth. ESA is opening the door to industry to build the spacecraft that will deliver the precious rocks, dust and gas fr...

A peculiar atmospheric process is sculpting meteorites into surprising shapes as they fall.