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According to recent filings with the FCC, SpaceX hopes to conduct their first test flight with the Starship Mk 3 prototype as early as mid-March of 2020. The post SpaceX Has Requested Permission to Fly Starship as Early ...

Earth and Pluto don’t have much in common. Earth is a vibrant, living world, whereas Pluto is cold, distant and lifeless. But one thing they do have in common is nitrogen. Earth’s atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen, an...

Astronomers are puzzling over how this cosmic giant arose and expired so quickly in the early universe --

A Federal Communications Commission plan to auction satellite C-band spectrum without waiting for legislation garnered mixed reactions from U.S. lawmakers who oversee the FCC. SpaceNews.com

Astronomers uncovered a pair of invisible stars creating ripples in space-time, a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.

Additives, like the main ingredient in a certain laxative, help thin soap films stretch into floating orbs.

SpaceX's technical validation of reusable rockets has opened new horizons for the launch sector while inciting the firm's competitors to invest in technological innovation as a means to fight market share erosion. SpaceN...

Defective software could have doomed Boeing's crew capsule during its first test flight that ended up being cut short late last year, NASA said Friday.

The European Space Agency will embark upon one of its most ambitious projects to date Sunday when its Solar Orbiter probe launches from Florida's Cape Canaveral bound for the Sun.

SpaceX will get $80.4 million from NASA to launch the agency's 2022 Earth science mission, known as PACE.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch will participate in a postflight news conference at 3:30 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 12, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Boeing is considering another test flight for its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew spacecraft amid concerns from a NASA safety panel about its first flight.

Watch live: Solar Orbiter pre-launch briefings Watch ESA Web TV for the Solar Orbiter pre-launch press event, live from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral at 18:00-19:00 GMT (19:00-20:00 CET). A Solar Orbiter ...

Astrobiologists are focused on resolving two central questions to understand the environmental and chemical limits of life. By understanding life's boundaries, they intend to identify possible biosignatures in exoplanet ...

This eye-catching galaxy is known as NGC 5364.

Researchers at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology have entered their third year of development of a wearable and wireless body sensor system--with the ability to be powered remotely--that will revolutionize NASA s...

At 23.03 (local time) on Sunday 9 February, Europe's newest mission to study the sun is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US. Called Solar Orbiter, this European Space Agency (ESA) mission will travel to wi...

Week in images: 3-7 February 2020 Discover our week through the lens

Watch out for the Zee burst!

Voyager 2 is taking science data again after a glitch knocked the probe offline in late January.

In studying what's known as "flammable ice," researchers have discovered that microscopic bubbles within the strange material contain life.

Solar scientists were excited that NASA would be launching a probe to fly closer to the sun than ever before, but they may not have bargained on already producing dozens of papers based on the data.