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The British company Reaction Engines Ltd. hopes to manufacture Skylon, a runway-to-orbit space plane using hybrid air-breathing rocket engines.

XCOR aims to take paying passengers on a suborbital weightless hop to the edge of space.

DARE is a proposed lunar satellite that would study the early era of the universe when the stars first starting turning on.

Mini-Neptunes outnumber other types of planets found by astronomers.

Chart details the causes of the destruction of Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986.

Researchers say an anomaly in the orbits of distant Kuiper Belt objects points to the existence of an unknown planet orbiting the sun.

How is a supernova different from a hypernova? Learn about the different types of exploding stars that astronomers have identified.

Ridley Scott's new space film showcases a lot of space hardware derived from actual NASA plans for interplanetary travel.

Here is a chart of some of the must-see spectacles that the night sky has to offer in 2016.

Planned in the 1960s but never realized, the Gemini-based manned spy satellite was finally declassified in 2015.