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Russia’s space agency Roscosmos is currently looking at plans to create a national space station that may be included in the new Federal Space Program, Roscosmos head Oleg Ostapenko said Monday. “I confirm that we are looking at this variant as a likely direction,” Ostapenko said.

The discovery of ancient hydrogen-rich water in extremely remote areas has led to a “quantum change” in our understanding of how much of the Earth’s crust could support life, scientists have said. The water was discovered trapped kilometres below Earth’s surface in rock fractures in Canada, South Africa, and Scandinavia. It has been described as a “sleeping giant” in terms …

Voyager 1 still continues to experience the bumpy effects of the “tsunami wave” it encountered in space this February. This is the third shock wave it has encountered since entering interstellar space in 2012. The wave is still propagating outwards.

The Geminid meteor shower is an annual nighttime sky spectacle that sees as many as 100 shooting stars streaking across the sky each hour. The climax of the 10-day event was at the weekend, and sky watchers described the conditions in many areas as perfect thanks to the clear skies – ideal for seeing the brightly coloured trails from tiny …

According to a new study, birds descended from ancestors who had teeth. Those ancestors lost their teeth about 116 million years ago.

US Navy Creates Robot Tuna? The United States Office of Naval Research has been working on a covert robot, capable of infiltrating enemy territory. Dubbed “Project Silent Nemo,” the robot is five feet long, weighs a hundred pounds and looks like a bluefin tuna. It is the Navy’s first spy tuna.

Dark Matter Discovery Report : Astronomers have detected odd signals of dark matter coming from two different galaxies. The finding was made when the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton spacecraft was collecting data and X-ray emissions were noticed coming from the Andromeda galaxy and the Perseus galaxy cluster.

Astrobotic, the 6-year-old Pittsburgh firm that likes to say it wants to be “FedEx to the moon,” said Thursday it also wants to be the outer space version of another terrestrial delivery operator: the U.S. Postal Service.

A man is facing up to $75,000 in fines and a year in jail after he was caught in the thermal pool at the Cave and Basin National Historic Site — home to the endangered Banff Springs Snail. Around 2 p.m. on Nov. 26, Parks Canada staff reported that a man was bathing in the cave’s pool in Banff National …

Monster Star Merger Could Create Massive Mega-Star, A study of “MY Camelopardalis” binary system, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, shows that the most massive stars are made up by merging with other smaller stars, as predicted by theoretical models.

It’s the time of year everyone seems to be on a busy schedule — and that goes for great white sharks, too. A great white shark named Lydia, which is being tracked by researchers, has become something of a social media celebrity, with a Twitter account tracking her progress.