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As part of the agency's efforts to enable broader use of space, NASA has released its final goals and objectives for low ...

Life on our planet has experienced many mass extinctions over its 4.5 billion years. Scientists see evidence for at least ...

SpaceX needs extra time to process the new spaceship that will finally relieve Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams of their space ...

Two Boeing Starliner astronauts, stranded at the International Space Station in June after what was supposed to be a weeklong ...

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The goal: protect billions if not trillions of dollars worth of ground-based infrastructure, plus the lives of space tourists ...

While these “mirror cells” could have profound medical implications, a new 299-page report warns that a mirror pathogen could ...

If climate modellers’ accumulated knowledge and spiffy models could not explain what had just happened, it might mean that ...