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April 9, 2018

Alien atmospheres cooked up in lab may aid exoplanet search

While telescopes in space can scan the sky without interference from Earth's clouds, they still run into problems from hazes on other planets.

April 9, 2018

NASA has a plan to put robot bees on Mars

NASA has two teams of researchers working to design a robotic bee that can fly on Mars.

April 9, 2018

Secretive X-37B military space plane wings past 200 days in orbit

The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane has winged past 200 days in orbit on its latest clandestine mission.

April 9, 2018

Musk posts picture of BFR's 'main body tool' to be used for interplanetary missions

Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, on Sunday posted a picture of what he identified as the “main body tool” for his company’s BFR interplanetary spaceship.

April 6, 2018

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic tests spaceship over California's Mojave Desert

Virgin Galactic’s new SpaceShipTwo flew at supersonic speed over California’s Mojave Desert on Thursday, marking the first powered flight since the fatal 2014 crash of its original rocketship.

April 5, 2018

Supersonic planes could make big comeback with quieter, 'low-boom' NASA aircraft

NASA and Lockheed Martin are developing a new, experimental aircraft that could make it possible to fly from New York City to London in just under three hours.

April 4, 2018

India loses contact with new communications satellite just days after launch

India lost contact with a communications satellite only days after the country launched the craft into space, according to multiple media reports and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

April 3, 2018

NASA’s next planet hunter is ready to find undiscovered worlds

Scheduled for launch this month, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will embark on a two-year mission to seek out new exoplanets close to Earth and, possibly, even evidence of extraterrestrial life.

April 2, 2018

Venus' clouds could host extraterrestrial life, researchers say

A paper published last week takes a look at the second rock from the Sun -- Venus -- as well as its atmosphere.

April 2, 2018

SpaceX launches 14th Space Station resupply mission

SpaceX launched its 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station Monday, sending a reused cargo ship to the orbiting lab.