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Welcome to 321 Launch, FLORIDA TODAY's new, curated weekly newsletter based on our most engaging space content from the past week. 321 Launch is also the name of our augmented reality-powered spaceflight app for tracking live rocket launches, ...

Jim Jarmusch's zombie film is the latest in a long, long line of films and TV shows that grapple with the rising of the undead. It's a staple of sci-fi far too fantastical to be real. Right? Not exactly. The latest Mach at the Movies looks at how close science is to ...

NASA's asteroid-sampling spacecraft OSIRIS-REx just snapped its closest picture yet of Bennu, the deep-space rock it's been hovering around since the end of last year. The high-resolution image highlights the object's very rocky surface and even showcases ...

The Sun is why we're here. It's also why Martians or Venusians are not. When the Sun was just a baby four billion years ago, it went through violent outbursts of intense radiation, spewing scorching, high-energy clouds and particles across the solar system.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission will be its most ambitious trip to the Red Planet yet. The Mars 2020 rover is absolutely packed with the latest high-tech instruments, and while the mission isn't scheduled to begin until next summer, excitement is already building in ...

NASA will be launching two identical miniature satellites next week as part of a project designed to help scientists understand how Earth's atmosphere muddies the radio signals we rely on for communication and navigation. The pair will be among a total of 24 ...

Kyle Davis is an environmental data scientist whose research seeks to increase food supplies in developing countries. He combines techniques from environmental science and data science to understand patterns in the global food system and develop ...

The moon doesn't lose a lot of staring contests. But every now and then, Earthlings who train telescopes on the natural satellite get a a real eye-opener: the moon blinks back at them. A light, often red or pink, may suddenly flash from the darkness. It lasts a ...

Engineered tissues and organs have been grown with various degrees of success in labs for many years. Many of them have used a scaffolding approach where cells are seeded onto biodegradable supportive structures that provide the underlying ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) snapped an image of a "black-and-blue" impact crater on the Red Planet. (Photo Credit: Nahúm Méndez Chazarra, NASA / JPL / University of Arizona) ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A NASA spacecraft with “green propellant” will launch on the third flight for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral as soon as June 24. SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force are targeting June 24 at 11:30 p.m. to launch ...

Snails secrete a mucous that acts like super-glue, allowing them to adhere to rough surfaces like rocks. Inspired by this aspect of snail biology, scientists at University of Pennsylvania, Lehigh University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have ...

Here's your chance to help name a planet. You're probably familiar with headlines like Scientists Discover 20 More Exoplanets That Might Resemble Earth or NASA Announces Recent Discovery of 104 Exoplanets. Those planets often get odd, scientific ...

The first mission involving the autonomous submarine vehicle Autosub Long Range (better known as "Boaty McBoatface") has for the first time shed light on a key process linking increasing Antarctic winds to rising sea temperatures. Data collected from the ...

Following a call late last year for companies to submit ideas on how NASA can best resupply its upcoming Lunar Gateway outpost, the U.S. federal space agency has taken its initiative one step further, releasing the draft resupply Request For Proposals it ...

The secrets of our Sun may be found much closer to home – in astronomical terms, anyway – as NASA researchers look to the Moon's crust to answer core questions about our solar system. While Earth orbits in the so-called “habitable zone” around the Sun, ...

There's plenty of interest in life extension technologies in Silicon Valley right now. (And, let's face it, probably the rest of the world, too!) While researchers have yet to find a true fountain of eternal youth, however, scientists at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of ...

Even though NASA's Cassini spacecraft's mission to Saturn ended in 2017, scientists are still poring over the copious amounts of data it transmitted. (NASA image). ORLANDO, FLORIDA – Even though NASA's Cassini spacecraft's mission to Saturn ended in ...

Eight hospitals have reported cases of listeria linked to sandwiches and salads eaten by patients.

Farmers and plant breeders are in a race against time. The world population is growing rapidly, requiring ever more food, but the amount of cultivable land is limited. Warmer temperatures have extended growth seasons in some areas — and brought drought ...