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On Tuesday, a Chinese spacecraft that is carrying samples from the Moon’s far side is predicted to return to Earth, ending a 53-day journey that was hailed as a global first and requiring advanced technical skills....

On Saturday, the Russian Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft, which was carrying three cosmonauts from an international crew, returned to Earth without incident. The spacecraft returned Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, Belarusian spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, and NASA astronaut...

Drummer Fred White, an early member of US band Earth, Wind & Fire, has died at age 67, his brother and former group announced on Monday. Born in 1955 in Chicago, White began drumming at an...

Are you obsessed with your Smartphone? Addicted to it? Well, it’s not something you’re proud of, but alas, it’s true! Millions of people throughout the world are having a hard time staying away from their smartphones...

The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles (two million kilometers) of our planet on March 21, NASA said on Thursday. The US space agency said it will...

Scientists for the first time have detected water in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star, evidence that a key ingredient for life exists beyond our solar system, according to a study published...

A defunct Chinese space lab plunged through Earth’s atmosphere Monday, breaking apart as it headed towards a watery grave in the South Pacific, Beijing said. The Tiangong-1 “mostly” burnt up above the vast ocean’s central region...

News Hour: An experimental Japanese mission to clear ‘space junk’ or rubbish from the Earth’s orbit has ended in failure, officials said Monday, in an embarrassment for Tokyo. Over 100 million pieces of garbage are thought...

News Hour: Japanese scientists say that silicon is likely the mystery element in the Earth’s inner core, claiming progress on solving one of the planet’s deepest secrets. Consensus has long been that the centre of the...

News Hour: Chinese officials appear to have confirmed what many observers have long suspected: that China is no longer in control of its space station. China’s Tiangong-1 space station has been orbiting the planet for about...