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Dr. Willie Soon – an astrophysicist, geoscientist, and expert on solar phenomena and global climate – was attacked online after making controversial statements about his climate change research in a recent Tucker Carlson interview. Dr. Willie Soon (aka Dr. Wei-Hock Soon) is an astrophysicist and geoscientist. He is a leading authority on the relationship between…

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s powerhouse Falcon Heavy rocket has flown commercial satellites, secret Department of Defense payloads and Elon Musk’s Tesla roadster into space. Now NASA is banking on the rocket for the first time, aiming to send a probe named Psyche to an asteroid with the same name this week. The rocket that has the power of three Falcon 9’s essentially strapped together ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — SpaceX’s powerhouse Falcon Heavy rocket has flown commercial satellites, secret Department of Defense payloads and Elon Musk’s Tesla roadster into space. Now NASA is banking on the rocket for the first time, aiming to send a probe named Psyche to an asteroid with the same name this week. The rocket that has the power of three Falcon 9’s essentially strapped ...

The asteroid samples are home, but the University of Arizona-led spacecraft is still out there. Meet the Wildcat who is guiding it on its new mission.

NASA is on the cusp on a unique new mission when its Psyche spacecraft blasts off atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket later this week.

The launch of NASAs Psyche mission has been delayed by a week to Oct. 12, so the team can deal with a recently detected thruster issue.

The launch of NASA's Psyche mission has been delayed by a week to Oct. 12, so the team can deal with a recently detected thruster issue.

NASAs Psyche mission is set to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket just seven days from now, on Oct. 5.

NASA's Psyche mission is set to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket just seven days from now, on Oct. 5.

(CNN) — Seven years after launching to space, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth Sunday to deliver a pristine sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. It’s NASA’s first time