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In his famous novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein describes a future lunar settlement where future lunar residents (“Loonies”) send payloads of wheat and water ice to Earth using an electromagnetic...

The Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability program aims to create a global network of ground-based radar systems to enhance space domain awareness by detecting and tracking objects in geosynchronous orbit The post Space Fo...

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner will return from the International Space Station in September without the two astronauts on board who launched on it in June after NASA concluded thruster problems posed too much risk. The post...

NASA decided Saturday (Aug. 24) to return its two Boeing Starliner astronauts to Earth in February 2025. Their Starliner capsule will come back empty over thruster concerns.

NASA will return Boeing's Starliner to Earth without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the spacecraft, the agency announced Saturday. The uncrewed return allows NASA and Boeing to continue gathering testi...

Paradoxically, even though we produce more scientific output than ever before - each year, researchers around the world publish millions of academic papers - the pace of scientific discovery is slowing down. There are se...

Scientists have transmitted quantum and conventional internet data through the same fiber-optic channel, meaning a future quantum internet could theoretically use existing infrastructure.

Fusarium oxysporum spores can remain hardy in soil for decades.

Two women astronauts on Polaris Dawn are set to break an altitude record set in 1990. Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon will fly higher than any female astronaut before them.

Scientists have "boldly gone" where no one has gone before, discovering what would happen if a faster-than-light warp drive like the one used in Star Trek were to fail.

Giant black holes in the centers of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars.

Blue Origin has scheduled its next New Shepard suborbital mission for Aug. 29 after completing an investigation into a parachute that failed to fully open on the vehicle's previous flight. The post Blue Origin sets date ...