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Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to ...

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Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges ...

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Up to four satellites from Elon Musk’s massive Starlink constellation are falling to Earth every day, according to space trackers. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center ...

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An investigation has found that extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner’s death in a paragliding crash was caused by human error.