The discarded ‘upper stage’ from a rocket launched almost ten years ago has recently crumbled to…
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Pinpointing The Origin of Photons in Mysterious Gamma-ray Bursts
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and collaborators have used simulations to show that…
Israeli Robotic Moon Landing Fails In Final Descent
Israeli scientists are studying what caused an engine failure in the closing minutes of what they…
NASA TV Coverage Set for April 17 Cygnus Launch to International Space Station
NASA’s commercial partner Northrop Grumman is scheduled to launch its Antares rocket carrying its Cygnus cargo…
Israel's Beresheet lunar lander has crashed on the moon
The first privately funded lunar lander, SpaceIL’s Beresheet spacecraft, suffered an engine failure and crashed as…
Studying Behavior in Space Shows Mice Adapt to Microgravity
NASA scientists have now published the first detailed study of how mice behave in the NASA…
10 Things You Should Know About Planetary Defense
Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun like the planets, but their…
What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home?
Astronaut twin brothers Scott and Mark Kelly took part in a unique space travel experiment and…
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Asteroid Redirect Test Mission
NASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Double Asteroid…
NASA Sees El Niño Conditions Prevail in the Central Pacific Ocean
An El Niño that began to form last fall has matured and is now fully entrenched…