This week the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute announced that it had raised more than…
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Space travel: Finding the technology to traverse the stars
What will it take to build a spaceship capable of traveling to the stars? And what…
NASA launches spacecraft to Jupiter
NASA is poised to launch on Friday a billion dollar solar-powered spacecraft called Juno on a…
Mars may have flowing salt water: NASA
Scientists have spotted dark stripes on some slopes on Mars in the warmer months, and they…
Spacewalkers ready space station for Russian upgrade
A pair of spacewalking cosmonauts floated outside the International Space Station on Wednesday to prepare the…
Russia marks ‘forgotten spaceman’s’ historic flight
Russia on Saturday marks 50 years since Gherman Titov became the second man in orbit, a…
‘Big splat’ could explain different topography on dark side of moon
The 'big bang' may have created the universe, but a new theory suggests the 'big splat'…
Moon’s mountains made by slo-mo crash: study
The Moon's highlands, long a mystery, may have been thrown up billions of years ago by…
European telescope detects oxygen in space
The European Space Agency’s Herschel telescope has found the first confirmed evidence of oxygen molecules in…
U.S. shuttle debris surfaces amid Texas drought
A piece of the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia has surfaced in eastern Texas, where a severe…