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SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9 rocket launch Sunday night

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — SpaceX scrubbed its planned Falcon 9 rocket launch Sunday night.

9 p.m. update:

SpaceX scrubbed its planed…

NorthStar and Thales Alenia Space begin work on satellites to combat space collisions

MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canada’s NorthStar Earth & Space and Thales Alenia Space said on Tuesday they will begin work on a commercial satellite system…

NASA mission will touch down on asteroid Bennu today

(CNN)After orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Bennu for nearly two years, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is ready to reach out its robotic arm and…

White Coats, Black Scientists

Scientists often consider their work and their institutions unbiased. After all, scientists rely on a rigorous set of experiments to test hypotheses…

Solex Energy Science to tackle energy challenges of tomorrow, today

New heat transfer technology company leverages bulk solids expertise to support development in the renewable energy sector

CALGARY, AB, Sept.…

Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet, and no one preserved them

Eighty-four online-only, open-access (OA) journals in the sciences, and nearly 100 more in the social sciences and humanities, have disappeared from…

Brazilians flock to COVID-19 vaccine trials

SÃO PAULO—Brazilian physical therapist Graziela Domingues is waging a life-and-death struggle against COVID-19. As head of the rehabilitation team…

New class of supergiant stars could explain missing supernova progenitors

A new class of stars called “fast yellow pulsating supergiants” has been identified by astronomers in the US and Switzerland. The discovery could solve…