The atmospheric clouds turned out to be the reason why the rocket was not launched on Sunday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. The clear atmosphere is needed to test the new ampoule ejection system designed to support studies of the ionosphere and aurora.

Scientists have discovered a brown dwarf - sometimes called "failed stars" - a little more than 100 light years away from the Sun, using a new citizen-science tool that helps astronomers pinpoint new worlds lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system.

'Launch scrubbed because of boats in the impact area for the second stage motor. We will try again Sunday, June 4,' NASA's Wallops Flight Facility announced on its Facebook page.

US space firm SpaceX on Saturday launched supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), including an experiment from a Chinese university that will test the effects of space environments on DNA.

The launch of the Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket testing a new deployment system to support space studies was originally scheduled for May 31, but it was delayed due to poor weather conditions.

China is set to launch a space telescope, the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), to observe pulsars in the galaxy of Milky Way, according to scientists.

The scientists have discovered a new kind of 'miracle material' that is 200 times more tough with improved chemical stability, lightness and flexibility. It can also be used in smartphones making them unbreakable even at rough usage.

A Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft ended its 196-day marathon on Friday after making a successful landing on Earth with French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy on board.

SpaceX is all set to launch the Dragon spacecraft for its 11th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 1. Liftoff is targeted for 5:55 p.m. EDT on June 1 (3.25 a.m Friday India time) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the US space agency said.

Japan on Thursday launched a new satellite to improve the global positioning system's (GPS) accuracy and establish an efficient communication system in the event of natural disasters.