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Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a kinetic impactor—a projectile intent on transferring its momentum to an asteroid ...
An unpublished NASA memo reportedly warns of a change in how the space agency awards contracts to build private space ...
It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft that looks like a miniature ...
The "black moon," a rare phenomenon that occurs during a new moon phase of the lunar cycle, will occur this weekend. But don't get your hopes up too much, scientists say, because it will be ...
The X-37B has launched atop multiple rockets from different providers. The spaceplane’s first four flights, starting in 2010, were launched atop an Atlas V 501, configured with a five-meter fairing ...
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.