Rocket launches are now a private sector race between billionaires who can write their own cheques. If Bezos wants to send celebrities into space he is free to do so — even if it fails to ignite ...

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NASA is making final preparations for its first spacewalk since January. It’ll also be the first all-female spacewalk since ...

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California professor Bethany Ehlmann will be the first woman to lead the university’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space ...

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An RIT student whose research is funded by NASA is one of the local college students targeted for removal from the country, records show.

A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

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Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what scientists expected.