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Four astronauts will have to wait a little longer before launching on their historic mission to the moon.

Their rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), rolled back from Launch Complex-39B (LC-39B) to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s

Astronomers enjoy it when the universe throws a curveball, and this object does exactly that. Working in two teams, they have found the largest, most distant stash of water ever seen in the cosmos. APM 08279+5255 is a quasar – an active galaxy…

The Voyager 1 satellite is one of the fastest human-made objects, beating anything else made on Earth by a considerable margin – but it’s hard to put that speed into perspective.

It’s also the most distant human-made object…

Some of the universe’s most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front ploughs into its surrounding…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts more than half a century ago are providing a fresh take on the moon’s mysterious magnetic field, scientists reported…