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We'll have to get over our aversion to eating bugs.

Clay-rich meteorites are scientifically fascinating, preserving water-rich minerals from beyond Earth. But they’re also fragile: Rain can cause this type of meteorite to fall apart. Hence scientists’ enthusiasm over this sample.

Scientists have shown which stars these craft will pass by millions of years after the vehicles stop working.

A quarter-century ago and thousands of miles away, a dramatic weeklong cosmic collision unfolded and helped the internet gain a foothold in people’s lives.

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a new US-Russian crew to the International Space Station failed during its ascent Thursday, sending its crew capsule falling back toward Earth in a ballistic re-entry.

Our Milky Way had a pretty sizable sibling long ago — until neighboring Andromeda tore the unfortunate galaxy apart, a new study suggests.

China’s prototype space station, whose name translates as “Heavenly Palace 1,” met a fiery end in Earth’s atmosphere Sunday.

With some help from NASA satellites, the Global Positioning System could be key to getting a better understanding of hurricanes, and help improve forecasts for their strength when they make landfalls.

The US Air Force began preparing for war on May 23, 1967, thinking that the Soviet Union had jammed a set of American surveillance radars. But military space-weather forecasters intervened in time, telling top officials that a powerful sun eruption was to blame, according to the study.

The closest supernovas to Earth may have blasted the planet with enough radiation to influence human evolution, researchers say.

Goddard’s first liquid-fueled rocket was small and did not fly all that high, but it marked a big change in how rocketry is done. Previously, all rocket launches had been done with solid materials. That work dated back to the 13th century, when Chinese engineers used gunpowder when repelling enemies.

The Smithsonian’s first-ever crowdfunding campaign to conserve, digitize and display astronaut Neil Armstrong’s lunar spacesuit has rocketed to success and is now stretching to “reboot” other space history artifacts in the national collection.

For those who are familiar with the highly intricate system of systems nature of software, the answer is clear; it’s the software that poses the greatest risk.

The Nexus for Exoplanet System Science, or NExSS, will take a multidisciplinary approach to the hunt for alien life, bringing together experts in Earth science, planetary science, heliophysics and astrophysics to get abetter understanding of life might emerge and develop around distant stars, NASA officials said.

A ravenous, giant black hole has belched up a bubble of cosmic wind so powerful that it could change the fate of an entire galaxy, according to new observations.

Four crewmembers simulating a mission on Mars dealt with a real-life emergency late last month — a greenhouse fire so strong that flames reached at least 10 feet high.

The Philae lander deployed its drill down to the surface to start taking samples of Comet 67P today. Officials are hoping that the drill reached the comet’s surface, and that data collected during the experiment will be sent back to Earth before the probe’s battery dies. Please, hurry up.

Orbital’s unmanned Antares rocket exploded in a brilliant fireball shortly after launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Tuesday evening, crashing back down to the launch pad in a flaming heap.

Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin wants to send people on a trip to Mars, and he doesn’t want them to come home — at least not at first.

The U.S. Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane will return to Earth this week —possibly as early as Tuesday — after 22 months in orbit on a secret mission.