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April 18, 2016

Say hello to FemtoSats -- the tiny new satellites that could democratize space

First launched in 2003, CubeSats have made quite an impact on space exploration with universities, enthusiasts, and others deploying the small and affordable satellites.

April 14, 2016

2015 was a big year for Canadian UFO sightings, report says

Canada experienced a very high number of reported UFO sightings in 2015, according to an annual survey released by Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Ufology Research.

April 13, 2016

1917 glass plate offers oldest evidence of exoplanetary system

Scientists have found the oldest-known manmade evidence of an exoplanetary system— and it’s been sitting in a basement for almost a century on a piece of glass.

April 11, 2016

NASA: Kepler emergency over, spacecraft now stable

NASA engineers have successfully recovered the Kepler spacecraft from emergency mode, the space agency announced Monday.

April 11, 2016

NASA races to save planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft

NASA is trying to resuscitate its planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, in a state of emergency nearly 75 million miles away.

April 11, 2016

NASA: Saturn probe unaffected by hypothetical Planet Nine

NASA has nixed reports that its Cassini spacecraft is experiencing unexplained deviations in its orbit around Saturn caused by the hypothetical Planet Nine.

April 8, 2016

SpaceX launches futuristic pop-up room, lands rocket at sea

SpaceX resumed station deliveries for NASA on Friday with the launch of a futuristic pop-up room, the first ever built for astronauts.

April 7, 2016

Exploding stars leave radioactive clues beneath Earth's oceans

During the past 10 million years, a series of stars in the Earth’s neighborhood exploded, raining a radioactive form of iron onto our planet that left its signature in the material beneath the world’s oceans.

April 6, 2016

NASA officials say Challenger disaster shouldn't be 'trivialized' in response to Beyonce song

The space agency issued a statement late Tuesday after the pop star began to receive criticism from Challenger families and others for using the short sample. 

April 5, 2016

NASA to officially unveil its green rocket fuel project in Colorado this week

Since 2012, the folks over at NASA have been working on developing a high performance "green" rocket propellant it hoped to one day use as an alternative to the incredibly toxic hydrazine fuel currently in use.