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New simulations link Titan’s formation to a moon merger and show how that event may have created Saturn’s rings.

HASTE rocket to deploy Hypersonix’s DART AE scramjet aircraft in latest DIU-backed test flight.

The algorithm scanned a 5×5-kilometer area in the Oceanus Procellarum region, identifying several spots exhibiting “artificial soil disturbances.”

BlueBird 6 is the initial entry in a planned 60-satellite constellation, with each future unit matching its huge scale.

Natilus’ aircraft design is aimed at delivering significantly greater fuel efficiency and lower operating costs.

The Ariane 64 rocket uses a four-booster configuration, making it almost twice as powerful as the previous iteration.

NASA astronaut Michael Scott Hopkins tested how well these organisms could extract precious platinum-group metals from rocks in zero gravity.

The Idaho National Laboratory will lead testing and fuel development efforts.

With this ten-year window, SpaceX is moving directly onto the turf of China’s International Lunar Research Station (ILRS). 

From orbit, advanced optical and radar satellites help militaries detect, track, and analyze enemy positions with near-real-time precision.

The Trinity mission will test both chemical and electric water propulsion systems in space.

These essential building blocks of life likely originated in icy-cold, radioactive environments at the dawn of our solar system.

The ambitious new goal is to create a “self-growing city” that could emerge on the Moon within the next ten years.

Instead of light, astronomers tracked time itself and found hints of a massive dark matter structure nearby.

Beijing has again framed the Shenlong mission as a technical trial rather than an operational deployment.

By combining pulsar timing and quasar observations, researchers are narrowing the search for individual black hole binaries.

Milky Way’s central object and dark matter halo may be two forms of the same substance.

Smartphones were made possible by pioneering space research. Now, NASA astronauts will take their personal smartphones to the moon.