Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

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Its employees regularly collect weather data that help scientists monitor daily forecasts, track hurricanes, support air ...

For roughly a decade, top minds at CERN have been cooking up plans for a successor to the Large Hadron Collider, a network of ...

Researchers have developed scalable lightsails, ultra-thin, reflective structures that use laser-driven radiation pressure to ...

The Houston Rockets are having their best season since the 2017-18 season. They are 48-26 with eight games left in the regular season. The Rockets are second in the Western Conference, and their ...

In the late 1990s we carried out a study aimed at improving the long-term performance of students who initially struggled with university-level physics. With funding from ... It’s not rocket science, ...

Here’s how it works. Rocket Lab has launched its workhorse Electron rocket for the third time in two weeks. The New Zealand-based company successfully launched eight wildfire detection ...

A mesmerizing blue spiral in the night sky from the UK to Poland on March 24 was linked to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch. It resulted from the rocket's frozen exhaust plume spinning and ...