Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have taken a major step toward developing lightsails that could one day ...

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If you’re packing for an interplanetary space mission—one that’s very long and might involve populating a faraway world—sending an all-female astronaut crew could be an intelligent choice.

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A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

An object that was incorrectly identified by an amateur astronomer as an asteroid has turned out to be a Tesla Roadster.

The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched by SpaceX in 2018.

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