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In late November, Delhi’s environment minister Gopal Rai sought permission from the central government to use cloud seeding ...

SpaceX recently hit some notable milestones with its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, and even in the full context of history, the ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere ...

Since arriving at the ISS on his fourth orbital mission earlier this month, Pettit, who at 69 is NASA’s oldest active ...

NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft ...