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- July 31
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- Schedule for NASA's Commercial Crew Test Flights Still Uncertain, Safety Panel Warns
- How a Solar Flare Amped Up Chaos of Hurricane Irma
- Museum Move Reunites Historic Gemini 6 Spacecraft with its Pilot
- Mars Is At Its Closest to Earth Since 2003 Today! It Won't Be Closer Until 2035
- Large Hadron Collider Just Spat Electron-ified Atoms to Almost the Speed of Light
- Swirling Algae Bloom Mixes Beauty and Danger in Landsat 8 Photo
- Blue Meteorite Crystals Reveal the Sun's Wild Youth
- Wildfire Smoke Blankets California in Satellite Photo
- SETI Researchers Want to End the Alien-Detection Hype
- July 30
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- Stargazers See Red: 'Blood Moon' Eclipse Meets Mars in Gorgeous Night-Sky Photos
- Amazing Photos: The 'Blood Moon' Eclipse and Mars Opposition of July 27, 2018
- A Radioactive Molecule Is Detected in Space — An Incredible First!
- Mars Makes Its Closest Approach to Earth Since 2003 Early Tuesday! Here's How to Watch
- String Theory May Create Far Fewer Universes Than Thought
- Happy Birthday, NASA! Space Agency Born 60 Years Ago
- Can We Terraform Mars to Make It Earth-Like? Not Anytime Soon, Study Suggests
- Magellanic Clouds Loom Over the Futuristic Hotel from 'Quantum of Solace' (Photo)
- Alaska Launch Shrouded in Secrecy
- Weird Volcanoes Are Erupting Across the Solar System
- Why the Private Spaceflight Industry Needs More Lawyers (Op-Ed)
- July 29
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- July 27
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- Longest Lunar Eclipse of the Century Dazzles Skywatchers
- Virgin Galactic's Space Plane Reaches New Heights (Video)
- Star Wars Episode IX Cast Announced — Including Carrie Fisher
- Explore the Cosmos With This Virtual Planetarium
- Watch Live: Here's What Time the 2018 Lunar Eclipse Peaks Today
- Northrop CEO Offers to Link JWST Profit to Mission Success
- Moon Rock Flies to Canada in a Lunch Box for New Exhibit
- The Massive Mars Dust Storm Is Starting to Die Down
- Total Lunar Eclipse Today: How to See the 'Blood Moon' Online
- Who Discovered Mars, Anyway? A Look Back at the History of the Red Planet
- Rare 'Supermoon' Eclipse Glows Blood Red Above the Canary Islands (Photo)
- Boulders and a Crater Dot Asteroid Ryugu in This Spectacular Up-Close View
- Look Up This Weekend for Closest Mars Views Since 2003
- July 26
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- This Friday, Learn Why 'Space is Awesome' with NBC Livestream
- Viral Hoax Claims Mars Will Look As Large As the Moon This Weekend
- Mars Close to Earth! Where to See the Red Planet Online and in Person
- Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity Space Plane Aces Test Flight, Reaching Mesosphere for the 1st Time
- Putting Boots on Mars Requires a Long-Term Commitment, Experts Tell Senators
- Blood Moon 2018: Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of Century Occurs July 27
- NASA Weighs Delaying WFIRST to Fund JWST Overrun
- The Sun Isn't Silent — Hear Its Song in New Observatory Data
- The Edge of Space Just Crept 12 Miles Closer to Earth
- Star Zooms Past Monster Black Hole, Confirms Relativity
- Giant Gas Halo May Reveal How Early Galaxies Evolved
- NASA Will Announce Commercial Crew Astronaut Picks
- How to Use Mobile Apps to Watch Mars' Closest Approach Since 2003
- Sweet Super-Puffs: These 2 Exoplanets Have the Density of Cotton Candy
- July 25
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- 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars' & More: The Biggest Sci-Fi News from San Diego Comic-Con 2018
- Album of the Year: The Apollo 11 Mission
- Scientists Identify Source of Mars Dust Currently Threatening Rover
- House Committee Approves Space Weather Bill
- NASA Studying Potential Additional Cuts in WFIRST
- See the Moon in All Its Cratered, Groovy Glory (Photo)
- NASA's Ocean-Watching Mission Gets Jazzy, Colorful New Videos
- NASA's Bread-Loaf-Shaped Satellite Makes First Global Ice Cloud Map (Video)
- World First: Chinese Physicists Made a Cold Atomic Clock Work in Space
- Mars' South Pole May Hide a Large Underground Lake
- SpaceX Lands Rocket in Harshest Conditions to Date and Attempts to Catch Fairing
- Ariane 5 Rocket Launches 4 Navigation Satellites for Europe
- 'Stolen' Electrons Spark Unusual Auroras on Mars
- Climate Change Strengthens Earth's 'Heartbeat' — and That's Bad News
- Here's How Friday's Superlong Lunar Eclipse Works
- July 24
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- Astronaut Alexander Gerst Shows Off His Rad Synthesizer Skills from Space
- Watch SpaceX and Arianespace Launch Satellites Wednesday in Early-Morning Doubleheader
- 'Things Are About to Get Epic' in the New Season of 'Cosmos'
- Rare 'Lunar Bible' That Visited the Moon Is Up for Auction
- See the Dramatic Increase in Near-Earth Asteroids NASA Has Discovered (Video)
- Parker Solar Probe vs. Blowtorch: Watch a Blazing-Hot Showdown
- Space Jam! New Art Project Aims to Sound Out Aliens
- How NASA Is Using Lasers to Study Climate Change (Video)
- Canadian Astronaut Prepares to Launch After a 9-Year Wait
- Mysterious Substance and 'Devilry' Blamed for 3-Hour 'Solar Eclipse' in Russia
- July 23
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- Scientists Definitely Have Not Found Life on the Moon
- These Gun-Toting, Weight-Lifting Russian Robots Might Fly to Space in 2019
- Boeing's Starliner Launch Abort Engine Suffers Problem During Testing
- Orion Capsule Turns Heads on White House Lawn (Photos)
- NASA, Peanuts Debut New Look for Astronaut Snoopy at Comic-Con
- Europa Lander May Not Have to Dig Deep to Find Signs of Life
- The Milky Way Had a Big Sibling Long Ago — And Andromeda Ate It
- NASA Mission to 'Touch the Sun' Due to Launch in Early August
- Flash, Bam, Alakazam: Lightning-Detecting Satellite Also Spots Meteors
- The Moon Has a Close Encounter with Saturn on Tuesday Night
- Right Again, Einstein: Special Relativity Works Even in Ghostly High-Energy Neutrinos
- July 22
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- Milky Way Glimmers Over Gorgeous Landscape During the Spring Equinox (Photo)
- Alien Thinking: The Conceptual Space Art of Jonathon Keats
- 12 Cool Pieces of Space History You Can See in Russia (and Kazakhstan)
- New Look Inside Sun's Atmosphere Yields Clues About Mysterious Solar Wind
- SpaceX Launches Communications Satellite on 2nd-Ever Flight of New Rocket
- July 21
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- Mercury Redstone 4: Photos from Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 Spaceflight
- Data from Weather-Tracking Satellite Helps Scientists Predict Cholera Outbreak
- Where to Search for Signs of Life on Titan
- Watch Live Tonight: SpaceX Launches Telstar Communications Satellite
- Thick Dust Clouds Spotted Near Martian Ice Cap
- July 20
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- Europe's Life-Hunting Mars Rover Needs a Name
- Parachutes for NASA's Next Crewed Spaceship Pass Key Test (Photo)
- James Gunn Off Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Following 'Offensive' Tweets
- Jupiter's Breathtaking Cloud Formations on Display in New Juno Image
- As Opportunity Rover Sleeps, Other NASA Craft Study Mars' Raging Dust Storm
- Who Owns the Moon? A Space Lawyer Answers
- New Aeolus Mission Will Use a Laser to Monitor Earth's Winds (Video)
- First Moonwalker Neil Armstrong's Memorabilia Heads to Auction
- 'Apollo 11' Film to Show First Moon Landing Like Never Before
- Watch Astronauts Set Foot on the Moon in Historic NASA Footage Streaming Today
- 'Killjoys' Season 4 Premieres Tonight with Even Weirder Space Adventures
- Happy Anniversary, Viking 1! What Early Landers Taught Us About Mars
- Makings of Moon Landing: 50 Years Ago, Apollo 11 Was One Year From 'Giant Leap'
- Building Apollo: Photos from Moonshot History
- July 19
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- Star Wars: Clone Wars Revived for Surprise Seventh Season
- Young Star May Be Devouring a Planet
- Take a Virtual Walk on the Moon in New York City!
- Dazzling Views Show Saturn Moon Titan's Surface Like Never Before
- It's Inspection Time for the James Webb Space Telescope's Huge Sun Shield (Photo)
- Tiny Satellite Begins Hunt for Missing Milky-Way Matter
- Milky Way Galaxy Is 'Disturbed' and More Revealed in ESA Gaia Mission Data (Video)
- Dr. Pulsar and Mr. Magnetar? 2 Star Types May Turn into Each Other
- Universe Expansion 'Detective Story' Examined with New Tool
- Wandering Star May Have Disrupted Outer Solar System's Order
- Moon and Jupiter Get Together Friday to Celebrate Lunar Landing Anniversary
- July 18
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- Scott Kelly Gets Real with Reddit in New Video
- New, Life-Hunting Organic Molecule Analyzer Set to Launch to Mars in 2020 (Video)
- Observations of the Early Universe Reaffirm the Existence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
- Bridenstine Visits Israel on First Foreign Trip
- Most Stars with Jupiters Have Giant Super-Earths
- NASA Takes Over Fenway Park for Space-Mission Show (Video)
- Blue Origin's New Shepard Vehicle Aces Test of Crew-Escape Motor
- Why Did People Panic When the Moon Changed Color?
- Iron-rich Minerals on Mars Could Contain Life's Fatty Acids
- Telescope Upgrade Produces Stunningly Clear Views of Space
- Twin Exoplanets Look Alike, Act Alike … But Have Completely Different Origins
- How 'Electric Microbes' Could Generate Power (And More) for Space Missions (Video)
- July 17
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- Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to Launch 'High-Altitude Escape Motor Test' Wednesday
- Dwarf Planet Ceres' Bizarre Bright Spots Shine in Stunning Up-Close View
- Andy Weir's 'Artemis' Gets 'Captain Marvel' Screenplay Writer: Report
- New Book Shows Children How New Horizons Got to Pluto
- Breathtaking Time-Lapse Video Shows Earth from International Space Station
- Delaware-Size Iceberg Stuck Near Home, Satellite Images Show
- One 'Oddball' Among 12 Newfound Moons Discovered Orbiting Jupiter
- A Space Fan's Guide to San Diego Comic-Con 2018
- This High-Tech Planetarium Is on a New Cruise Ship
- Gravity Assist Podcast: Exploring Mars, with Steve Squyres
- Field Notes Celebrates NASA History with Memo Books, Paper Models
- Scientists Prove Einstein Right Using the Most Elusive Particles in the Universe
- How Engineers Are Practicing for the BepiColombo Mission to Mercury (Video)
- July 16
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- A Stash of a Quadrillion Tons of Diamonds May Be Hiding Deep Inside Earth
- 'World Cup' in Space: Cosmonaut Goalie Blocks Soccer Ball … With His Face
- UK Selects Scottish Spaceport Site
- Titan Occultation May Give Astronomers Clues About Saturn's Biggest Moon
- Another Volcano? Jupiter Probe Sees Hotspot on Roiling Moon Io (Photo)
- Partial Solar Eclipse Spotted from Tasmania (Photo)
- NASA Snags an Emmy Nomination for Cassini Spacecraft's Grand Finale
- How Glacial Biomarkers Can Hone the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
- Mercury's Crust Might Be Thinner Than Anyone Thought
- Hawaiian Asteroid-Warning Telescope Passes Key Test
- July 15
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- July 13
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- SpaceX Gives Nose-Cone-Catching Boat 'Mr. Steven' a Bigger Net
- Mining Moon Ice: Prospecting Plans Starting to Take Shape
- Universe's Expansion Rate Is Different Depending on Where You Look
- Geometry Helps Solve the Mystery of Mars' Water
- Night Sky Events to Show Your Kids in Summer 2018
- Are We Alone? The Question Is Worthy of Serious Scientific Study
- SpaceX Crewed Capsule Preps for Test Flight in Florida
- NASA Flies Over Puerto Rico to Assess Forest Damage After Hurricanes
- Commercial Crew Delays Threaten Access to ISS, GAO Warns
- A Rare Cosmic Collision Might Let Scientists Calculate the Precise Age of the Universe
- Towers Toppled at Historic Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 17
- NASA's New Planet Hunter on Track to Start Science Work This Month
- White House Nominates Morhard to Be NASA Deputy Administrator
- Neutrino-Discovery Inside Scoop: Q&A with 'Godfather of IceCube' Francis Halzen
- 'Godfather of IceCube' Talks Hunting Neutrinos
- July 12
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- Discovery of a Cosmic-Ray Source Is a Triumph of 'Multimessenger Astronomy'
- Cosmic Double Take: Rare Binary Asteroid Discovered Near Earth
- Massive Mars Dust Storm Won't Stop NASA's Next Lander
- NASA's Big Astronaut Trash Problem
- Satellite-Lofting Startup Will Build US Launch Site
- Martian 'Ghost Dunes' Could Preserve Signs of Ancient Life
- Tracing a Neutrino to Its Source: The Discovery in Pictures
- Here's Why IceCube's Neutrino Discovery Is a Big Deal
- High-Energy 'Ghost Particle' Traced to Distant Galaxy in Astronomy Breakthrough
- How Your Kids Can Integrate Space Research with Summertime Fun
- New Yorkers Can Catch 'Manhattanhenge' Sunset Today and Tomorrow
- NASA's Historic Mission to the Sun Gets a Heat Shield
- Pluto and Charon Shine in Most Detailed Topographical Maps Ever
- July 11
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- NASA May Have Discovered and Then Destroyed Organics on Mars in 1976
- Europa’s Buried Ocean Could Rise to the Surface (Video)
- Method of Making Oxygen From Water in Zero Gravity Raises Hope for Long-Distance Space Travel
- Crew Dragon Completes Thermal Vacuum Tests Ahead of First Test Flight
- Friday the 13th Eclipse Visible to Lucky Few
- Billy Dee Williams Reprising Lando Role for Star Wars: Episode IX — Report
- Nearby Alien Planet May Be Capable of Supporting Life
- Touring Where the Mars-500 'Astronauts' Pretended to Take a Red Planet Journey
- Israel Aims to Launch Moon Lander in December
- Laser-Aided 'Hawk' Camera Snaps Spectacular New View of Star Cluster
- July 10
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- Elon Musk's Mini-Submarine Sits Out of Thai Cave Rescue Effort
- Europe's Ice-Watching Satellite Dodges Space Junk in Orbit
- Engine for DARPA's New Military Space Plane Aces Record-Breaking Test
- There's Spooky Plasma Music Traveling From Saturn to its Weirdest Moon
- Queen's Brian May Will Rock You with This Stereo Image of Asteroid Ryugu
- Wrap Your Head Around the Huge Size of SpaceX's Falcon Rockets in This Epic Video
- Peel Back Jupiter's Layers in New 'Space's Deep Secrets' Episode
- Peanuts Marks 50 Years in Space with New NASA Mission for Snoopy
- Europe Plans Second Attempt at Asteroid Planetary Defense Mission
- An Astrophysics 'Breakthrough' Will Be Unveiled Thursday. Here's How to Watch.
- India Tests Emergency-Escape System for Human Spaceflight (Video)
- 'Superstar' Eta Carinae Acts Like a Ginormous Cosmic-Ray Gun, But Why?
- This Exoplanet Is So Hot, It's 'Boiling Off' Its Atmosphere
- Russian Cargo Ship Sets New Record for Fastest Trip to Space Station
- July 9
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- Russia Just Launched the Fastest Cargo Mission Ever to the Space Station
- Neil Armstrong's Sons, Filmmakers Discuss Making 'First Man'
- Milky Weigh: New Method Pins Down Our Galaxy's Mass
- Mars 2020 Rover Team Adds 4th Candidate to Landing-Site List
- Pieces of 'Fireball' Meteor Found in Botswana
- Superbright Quasar Could Shed Light on Universe's Youth
- Russia Is Launching Its Fastest Cargo Ship to the Space Station Today: Watch Live!
- 'Apollo' Unpacks Urban Legends, Gossip, Speculation Behind First Moon Landing
- Life on Mars Could Have Gotten an Early Start, 'Black Beauty' Meteorite Suggests
- July 8
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- July 6
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- The End Is Nigh for NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope
- Elon Musk Sends SpaceX Engineers to Aid Soccer Team Trapped in Thai Cave
- Watch SpaceX's Dragon Ship for Astronauts Ace a Parachute Abort Test
- Students Send Human Spit, Baby Teeth and More to Space … for Science
- The Big Dipper Sparkles Over Dramatic Landscape in Stunning Night-Sky Photo
- Epic Crash with 'Sausage' Galaxy Shaped Milky Way's Bulge
- Engine for US Military's New Space Plane Fires Up in 10-Day Test
- NASA Spacecraft Refines Course Toward Big Asteroid Bennu
- As Space Becomes a Busy Place, NASA Bolsters Its Planet-Contamination Police
- Why This 5.4-Million-Year-Old Planet Is Still a Baby
- Remember That Dark-Matter-Free Galaxy? It May Have Dark Matter After All
- July 5
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- Bacterial Survival in Salty Antifreeze Raises Hope for Life on Mars and Icy Moons
- Plants, Algae and Other Weird Green Stuff Just Arrived at the Space Station
- Virgin Orbit Wins FAA License for First LauncherOne Mission
- Life-Saving Satellites: Why NASA's Earth-Science Missions Are Indispensable (Op-Ed)
- Jupiter's Moons Spin Intricate Auroras at Planet's Poles
- Traces of 'Sonic Boom' Meteorites Found on Ocean Floor
- Something Big Crashed into Uranus and Changed It Forever
- Lufthansa Adds Astronaut Food to its Airline Passenger Menu
- See How Huge the Monster Dust Storm on Mars Is in This Stunning Image
- Complex Organics Found on Saturn Moon Enceladus: What It Means for Life
- Alien Life May Be Rare in Our Galaxy Today
- July 4
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- Einstein's Theory of Gravity Passes Toughest Test to Date
- Fourth of July Stargazing: Planets and Constellations Complement Fireworks in the Night Sky
- Opportunity Mars Rover Still Silent Beneath Raging Dust Storm
- Earth Throws Stunning Light Show for Space Station Astronauts (Time-Lapse Video)
- This Fourth of July, Astronauts Have a Well-Deserved Day Off
- July 3
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- Here's What 'Artemis' Author Andy Weir Thinks of NASA's Moon Plan
- Watch Cosmonauts Cheer for Russia's 2018 World Cup Win Over Spain
- Scientists Try for 1st-Ever Meteorite Recovery at Sea
- 'Annihilation' Author Jeff VanderMeer Shares the Secrets to Writing Great Imaginative Fiction
- Why a Fighter Jet Is Testing 'Quiet' Supersonic Booms Over Texas for NASA
- SpaceX’s Crew Dragon: A Private Space Taxi in Photos
- Meteorites on Earth May Come from Just a Handful of Early Lost Worlds
- NASA's Planetary Protection Policies Need to Be Updated, Report Finds
- Weird Bright Spots on Ceres Get a Close-Up from Dawn As Mission Nears End
- July 2
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- The Space Station Is Shifting to Commercial Crew Vehicles. Where Does That Leave Russia?
- It Would Take 200,000 Years at Light Speed to Cross the Milky Way
- Private Japanese Rocket Crashes to Earth in Fiery Launch Failure
- Restoration Begins on NASA's Last Flight-Configured Saturn IB Rocket
- World UFO Day: Are We Really Alone? The Question Is Worthy of Serious Study
- SpaceX Dragon Delivers 'World's Strongest Coffee,' Ice Cream & More to Space Station
- Super-Sensitive Device Seeks Axions, Proposed Dark Matter Particles
- It's a Beautiful Baby Exoplanet! Historic Photo Is 1st View of Alien World Being Born
- July 1
