Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

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China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its diameter is about 51,000 kilometers, about four times that of the Earth, and its ...

B rocket is being fueled for launch of a complex deep-space mission targeting both a near-Earth asteroid and a comet.

The research builds on existing information about Uranus, like the fact that the planet is composed mainly of water and ...