A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

II astronauts will return for a 10-day deep-space mission that’ll test new spacecraft, new partnerships and a new approach to ...

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NASA has already set a date for a mission that will study how space radiation affects humans on the surface of the Moon.

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Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global ...

The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...

Scientists spotted a rare phantom jellyfish (Stygiomedusa gigantea) during a comprehensive expedition in deep-sea ecosystems ...

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to ...

Elon Musk has once again found himself at the center of controversy, as the tech billionaire continues to grapple with the ...

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...