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Nasa warns against Space X and Boeing design risks

Calling it a "phenomenal" review, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations William Gerstenmaier said at a news conference the Cre...

Israel's first lunar lander launched into space from Florida

The first soft landing on the moon came in 1966; executed by both the both Russian Federation and the United States; there was not another unmanned soft landi...

Feinstein Tells Off Kids Lobbying Her to Support Green New Deal

One teen girl told the senator that "we're the people who voted you" and pleaded for Feinstein to change her mind on supporting the Green New Deal. Sunrise...

NASA, SpaceX OK 1st test flight of crew capsule next week

No one will be aboard the Crew Dragon Demo-1 flight to the ISS, only an instrumented dummy in a white SpaceX spacesuit. "Officials from NASA and USA private a...

NASA Citizen Scientist Discovers The Oldest, Coldest Dead Star In Record

Scientists think it could be the first white dwarf with multiple dust rings, with the find forcing astronomers to "reconsider models of planetary systems and [i...

Neptune's newest, tiniest moon likely fragment of bigger one

At only 21 miles wide, it's among the smallest in the solar system - explaining how it's eluded astronomers. Hippocamp , now known as Neptune's smallest moo...

Israel makes history as Moon-bound spacecraft completes successful launch

The satellite is Indonesia's first high-throughput satellite. "Beresheet is the first spacecraft to land on the Moon as a result of a private initiative, ra...

History in the Making: Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Launches Tonight on Moon Mission

SpaceX - the Elon Musk-created firm - wants to make the first privately-built spacecraft to reach the moon. Beresheet separation Beresheet separated from i...

4-foot-tall T. rex cousin discovered, was a 'harbinger of doom'

These fossils came from a previously unknown tyrannosaur species and filled a 70-million-year gap in the family tree of North American tyrannosaurs, researchers...

Israel's first mission to moon blasts off from Florida

Just minutes after blastoff, the Falcon 9's nine-engine suborbital main-stage booster separated from the upper stage, flew back to Earth and landed safely on a ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 aces launch and landing after "most challenging reentry" yet

Last month Israel Aerospace Industries partnered with German spacecraft builder OHB to offer a version of the lander it built for SpaceIL to the European Space ...

SpaceX Is Launching Israel's First Mission to the Moon Tonight

SpaceIL, a private Israeli startup, has partnered with Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch a new lunar lander, potentially becoming the first privately funded mission ...

Israel shoots for moon with privately funded spacecraft

Though the competition ended a year ago without a victor, SpaceIL is now poised to be the first among almost 30 teams to make it to the moon on its own anyway....

Japan's Probe Spacecraft Is Preparing to Touch Down on an Asteroid

Friday's attempt is the first of three such touchdowns planned. The initial touchdown on the asteroid was postponed in October a year ago as JAXA found the su...

Wallace Broecker, the geophysicist who popularized the term 'glo

Though the term had been used before, Broecker's usage helped push it into the mainstream. He was 87 years old. Broecker died Monday in NY, said Kevin Kraji...

New Universe map unearths 300000 more galaxies

An worldwide team of more than 200 astronomers from 18 countries, including researchers from University College Dublin (UCD), has today published the first phas...

Hunting monkeys help early man establish foothold in South Asia

Traditionally, early humans are thought of as living in semi-arid environments like savannahs, where they had a stable food source of megafauna. However, as the...

Three UCLA professors awarded 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships

The fellowships, awarded yearly since 1955, honor early-career scholars whose achievements mark them as among the most promising researchers in their fields. Th...

Planning a holiday to Mars? Don't forget to check the weather!

The latest weather forecast, which was provided by InSight on Feb.17, said Mars' surface had a high temperature of 2 degrees Fahrenheit and a low temperature of...

Giant tortoise believed extinct for 100 years found in Galápagos

This photo released by the Galapagos National Park shows a Chelonoidis phantasticus tortoise at the Galapagos National Park in Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Is...

Why do zebras have stripes? They make bad landing strips for flies

Striped patterns seem to work for humans as well, explaining why tribes from Africa, Australia, and southeast Asia have historical bodypainting traditions. UC D...

Scientists reveal why zebras have stripes

There had been 4 main hypotheses about the advantages zebras accrued by evolving stripes: camouflage to avoid large predators; a social function like individual...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasts critics who claim she didn't understand Amazon deal

The defensive thread was prompted by criticism from Crain's New York Business editor Erik Engquist, who said that while he usually defends the democratic soci...

Liberals defeat opposition call for public inquiry into SNC-Lavalin pressure

In question period, Trudeau faced a barrage of questions from the opposition demanding he let Wilson-Raybould speak, and accusing him of sexism for giving his s...

Cyclone Oma tracks towards Queensland

Considerable uncertainty remained about where it may make landfall. Meteorologist Adam Blazak said TC Oma had increased king tides on the Gold Coast by 15 c...

Picture gallery of Super snow moon in Suffolk 2019

The phenomenon made its first appearance on February 18 and is expected to be seen today. Amateur astronomer Roger Handford says the Moon's orbit is not circu...

South Korea found the remains of the spiders with glowing eyes

While modern-day spiders are known to feature eyes with a tapetum, this latest discovery is the first to show the feature in a fossilised spider and now helps p...

Animation of Neptune's moon Hippocamp

SETI Institute's Mark Showalter discovered Neptune's 14th moon in 2013. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of global cooperation between NASA and ESA (Eu...

INNOVATION: China wants to build the first solar power station in space

China is tapping the boundless energy of the Sun with a space-based power plant that orbits 36,000 kilometers above the surface of the Earth. Japan for examp...

Get the weather on Mars daily, courtesy of new Nasa lander

Brrr. You can also check out wind speeds and air pressure data for each day. On Sunday - the latest available date - the highest temperature on Mars was a bri...