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October 18, 2016

Battery damage grounds Solar Impulse 2 until 2016

The second leg of Solar Impulse 2's epic solar-powered flight across the Pacific has been postponed until 2016 while the plane undergoes repairs to its damaged batteries.

October 18, 2016

Juno Jupiter probe's final engine burn delayed by glitch

NASA's Juno Jupiter probe won't be settling into its final orbit around the giant planet this week after all.

October 17, 2016

Rocket launch reignites space station deliveries in Virginia

One of NASA's main delivery companies has launched its first space station shipment from Virginia in two years.

October 17, 2016

After glitch, Orbital ATK will launch Antares rocket Monday night

Antares is now scheduled to launch Monday at 7:40 p.m. EDT.

October 17, 2016

European lander released to begin final descent to Mars

The European Space Agency dispatched an experimental probe Sunday on the final leg of its quest to land on Mars, part of a mission aimed at exploring the red planet's atmosphere and searching for signs of life.

October 17, 2016

China launches its longest crewed space mission yet

Two Chinese astronauts began the country's longest crewed space mission yet on Monday, blasting off on a spacecraft for a 30-day stay on an experimental space station as China steadfastly navigates its way to becoming a space superpower.

October 17, 2016

Buckle up, space tourists! Blue Origin on track to launch people next year

The final frontier could start opening up to the masses — well, the wealthy masses, at least — very soon.

October 14, 2016

A comet may have hit the Earth 56 million years ago, study says

Million of years in the past, a comet or an asteroid might have slammed into the Earth at an important time in its climatic history.

October 14, 2016

Private space stations may take flight in 2020

2020 may be the year a private space station gets off the ground.

October 13, 2016

The universe has ten times more galaxies than scientists thought

The census of galaxies just got a whole lot bigger.