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If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. What is space made of – what does gravity actually bend? – Phil, age 12, Birmingham What comes to ...

On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the satellite that started the Space Race. Sputnik 1 was the first ...

Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired ...

A swirling white trail was all that was left behind as the rocket ascended through the clouds and into space. With the previous Galileo launch this year, SpaceX disposed of the booster ...

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. This one line all the narrative reasoning you need for Space Marine 2. It’s exposition, it’s emotional grounding, and it’s ...

Space is all around us. We live on planet Earth but there are loads more planets up in space. There are also stars and moons. The closest star to Earth is the Sun. In our solar system there are 8 ...

Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start ... 3️⃣ Space dummies: Mannequins named Helga and Zohar flew ...

As the Canaveral Port Authority's Fireboat 2 provided a water-cannon-salute escort, Space Perspective's balloon-launching ship MS Voyager returned to Port Canaveral amid applause and fanfare ...

A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule launched into space atop one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets from launch complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:24 a.m. Eastern time.