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This story was updated at 2:30 a.m. EDT. SpaceX pulled off its fifth rocket landing in the last seven months early Monday morning (July 18), this time bringing a booster back during a successful cargo launch toward the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX’s two-stage Falcon 9 rocket blasted off  at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) Monday […]

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches the company’s robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station on April 8, 2016. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX will attempt to land its Falcon 9 rocket during the launch of a cargo mission toward the International Space Station early Monday morning (July 18), and you can watch all the action […]

A bone cell research project is among the 2,200 lbs. (1,000 kilograms) of research and science supplies flying to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft July 18, 2016. Credit: NASA SpaceX’s ninth commercial cargo mission, launching early Monday (July 18), is lugging a selection of strange science to the International Space Station — […]

Using a specialized capture mechanism, the European Space Agency (ESA) plans to lasso a large, abandoned satellite drifting through space and pull it down to burn up in the atmosphere. The e.DeOrbit mission, part of the agency’s Clean Space Initiative , is designed to capture an ESA-owned satellite that is in low orbit around the […]

A Tom’s Guide senior writer appeared on a recent episode of the “Random Trek” podcast to talk about an episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” Credit: “Random Trek” website Here’s a quick news alert for all you “Star Trek” fans out there: Recently, we published an article by tech writer Marshall Honorof about his […]

By Clayton Ashley | July 15, 2016 10:15am ET A team of scientists and engineers gives proposals for NASA’s 2020 Mars rover mission, a mission that will borrow the design of the 1-ton Curiosity and seek out ‘biosignatures’ on Mars.  credit : NASA / JPL Watch more  ► Shows Skylon SABRE – A True Space […]