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SpaceX is on track to launch its first Mars mission in as little as four years from now, SpaceX's founder and CEO Elon Musk said Friday (Oct. 16) at the International Mars Society Convention.

A new test of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has proved the 20th Century physicist right again, this time using a supermassive black hole.

Fusion power is the technology that is thirty years away, and always will be – according to skeptics at least. Despite its difficult transition into a reliable power source, the nuclear reactions that power the sun hav...

The Space Force plans big announcements as the service approaches its one-year anniversary, said Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman. SpaceNews

The stars at the center of our galaxy could tell us just how fast our closest supermassive black hole is spinning. The post We actually don’t know how fast the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is spinning but ther...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

NASA has awarded more than $400 million in contracts to both demonstrate technologies needed for future lunar exploration and to send an ice-drilling payload to the south pole of the moon. SpaceNews

A new study found that warmer ocean temperatures driven by climate change have caused Australia's Great Barrier Reef to lose more than half of its corals since 1995. The researchers say virtually all coral populations al...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Zeeland - the westernmost province in the Netherlands....