Elon Musk says SpaceX is going to try to land a rocket stage with … wait for it … a "giant party balloon."

The breakthrough, spurred by the discovery of plastic-eating bugs at a Japanese dump, could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis

A new proposal describes how to use SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to intercept the next interstellar visitor to Earth's solar system.

Scientists have discovered that tiny diamonds found inside a meteorite show signs of originating in a lost planet - one that dates back to the earliest days of the Solar System.

Eeeeeek.

On Thursday, the US Senate narrowly confirmed President Trump's controversial nominee for NASA administrator, Representative Jim Bridenstine.

How's the air in your neighbourhood today? A new State of Global Air report suggests more than 95 percent of the planet's population currently have to breathe polluted air – air containing fine particle levels that exceed the global air quality g

Maybe we should look behind the couch cushions.

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Savage.

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