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Maj. William Anders, 90, was solo piloting a small aircraft when a fatal accident took place northwest of Seattle

Retired major general, 90, killed when his plane plunged into waters off Washington state’s San Juan Islands

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, has been killed when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has faced quite a few hurdles, and the agency has selected ten studies to try and find more affordable and quicker means of going about the project.

Virgin Galactic launched its seventh commercial spaceflight mission on June 8 during the final flight of its VSS Unity suborbital spaceplane.

SpaceX landed one of its Falcon 9 rockets for the 300th time tonight (June 7), notching the milestone during a Starlink satellite launch.

Jupiter and Earth's oceans have more in common than you might think.

An exotic molecule stabilized by intense pressure found in the icy depths of Neptune and Uranus could help explain a long-standing mystery.

One of Starliner's biggest priorities was delivering a urine processor pump to the ISS. Why does it matter? Because the ISS is currently full of an "awful lot of" stores urine.

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Taking almost a full hour to rotate rather than fractions of a second, ASKAP J1935+2148 is the slowest spinning radio-blasting neutron star ever seen.