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- November 30
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- NASA Astronaut May Be Among Last to Launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome
- The Space Party Continues: NASA Probe Arrives at Asteroid Bennu Monday
- Hubble Telescope Spots Thousands of 'Orphaned' Star Clusters Drifting Between Galaxies
- There's Drug-Resistant Bacteria in the Space Toilets, Guys
- NASA's Stunning Photo of the Moon Will Make You Swoon
- Expedition 58: Russia's Soyuz Crew Capsule Launch to ISS
- Facebook Live and Book Giveaway Today! 'Your Place in the Universe' by Paul Sutter
- Madagascar Meteorite Came from the Early Solar System, Experts Find
- The Small Comet 46P/Wirtanen Flies Close By Earth Next Month! Here's What to Expect.
- NASA Chief Personally Ordered Safety Review of SpaceX, Boeing: Report
- Classic 'Star Wars' Moments Get Animated for Kids in New Series
- Einstein's Theory of General Relativity Just Survived a Massive Crash in Outer Space
- November 29
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- New Calculation Adds Up All the Starlight in the Universe
- 9 US Companies Are Going to the Moon! Here Are NASA's New Partners.
- Soviet Robot-Retrieved Moon Rocks Sell for $855,000 at Sotheby's
- Indian Rocket Launches 31 Satellites to Orbit
- In Photos: Indian Rocket Launches 31 Satellites to Earth Orbit
- Soar Over NASA's InSight Landing Site on Mars in This Stunning Video
- Advisory Committee Seeks to Enhance Commercial Space Activities
- AI Robot CIMON Debuts at International Space Station
- 'Europa Excursion' Takes Kids on a Journey to Jupiter's Icy Moon
- Can Venus Teach Us to Take Climate Change Seriously?
- Russians Are Struggling to Keep Soyuz Reliable, Space Expert Warns Ahead of Crew Launch
- Epic 64-Satellite SpaceX Launch Will Honor 1st Black Astronaut with Canopic Jar Sculpture
- Success of Tiny Mars Probes Heralds New Era of Deep-Space Cubesats
- November 28
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- Space Could Fry Your Phone: How Space Tourists Can Protect Their Electronics (and Data)
- Back in Action! Recovered Hubble Telescope Nabs Nifty New Picture
- NASA Will Announce Its 1st Commercial Partners for the Return to the Moon Thursday
- No, Mars InSight Won't Be Searching for Alien Life. Here's What It IS Looking For.
- SpaceX Delays Historic Small-Satellite Launch (Again)
- Why Is NASA Looking for 'Marsquakes'?
- FCC License Application Sheds Light on SpaceX Vehicle Testing Plans
- Landing on Mars Really Messes with Your Work Schedule
- November 27
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- Mars InSight Stuck the Landing. Here's the First Thing It Did.
- InSight's Mars Landing Warms the Hearts of Chilled Space Buffs in Times Square
- Senator Seeks Assurances on JWST and WFIRST Funding
- After Record-Breaking Wildfire Season, California Shows Nine New Scars
- NASA's 'Space Race' Rockets Relaunched as Collectible Retro 51 Pens
- NASA's InSight Lands on Mars with Braille 'Easter Egg' Hidden in Sight
- Ugh, When These Stars Die They're Probably Gonna Get Sand Everywhere
- 950-Mile-Long Cloud Spotted Over Martian Volcano. And It Has Staying Power.
- This Mars Landing Touchdown Dance by NASA InSight Engineers Is Absolutely EPIC!
- What's Next for NASA's New Mars Lander?
- InSight Mars Lander Unfurls Solar Wings Amid 'Quiet Beauty' of Red Planet
- Trump Touts Mars Landing, Space Force at Mississippi Rally
- This Farewell Photo of Mars by an Interplanetary Cubesat Is Absolutely Amazing
- As NASA Celebrates Mars Landing, a Busy Future Awaits, Agency's Chief Says
- November 26
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- Ivanka Trump, Pence Hail NASA's InSight Mars Landing Success (& Other Reactions)
- This Spinning, Snakelike Star System Might Blast Gamma Rays into the Milky Way When It Dies
- Behold! Here's the 1st Photo from Mars from NASA's InSight Lander.
- NASA's InSight Mars Lander: Amazing Landing Day Photos!
- Touchdown on Mars! NASA's InSight Lands to Peer Inside the Red Planet
- Watch from Inside Mission Control As NASA's InSight Attempts Mars Landing (360 Video)
- Nat Geo's 'Mars' Highlights the Dangerous Realities of Science in Episode 3
- First Cubesats to Visit Another Planet Will End Mars Mission Today
- See Spectacular Lunar Mission Images in 3D (Photos)
- See the Apollo Moon Missions Like Astronauts Did — In 3D
- A Monster Black Hole Powers This Cosmic Fountain a Billion Light-Years Away (Video)
- TRAPPIST-1 Planet May Be Wet and Life-Friendly
- 'Solar Gravity Lens' Could Bring Exoplanets into Sharp Focus
- NASA's InSight Mars Lander Reaches Mars Today! Here's What to Expect
- Here's What Mars Looks Like Now to a Tiny Cubesat Chasing NASA's InSight Lander
- November 25
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- 'Mars Is Hard': Tension Rises for NASA's InSight Landing on Red Planet
- Solstar Seeks Strategic Investor for WiFi in Space
- How the Mars Moon Phobos Got Its Grooves
- Journey to the Center of the Red Planet: NASA's InSight Lander to Reveal the Secrets Inside Mars
- Get Ready for InSight Mars Landing's '6 Minutes of Terror'
- November 24
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- November 22
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- China's Latest Beidou Satellite Launch Clears Way for Chang'e-4 Trip to Moon's Far Side
- FCC Approves SpaceX, Telesat, LeoSat and Kepler Internet Constellations
- Macy's Sunny the Snowpal Astronaut Balloon Is Just Adorable in the Thanksgiving Day Parade 2018
- NASA's InSight Lander Will Look Inside Mars Like Never Before. Here's Why.
- Thanksgiving in Space! How Astronauts Will Celebrate Turkey Day
- Oberwerk Sport ED Binoculars: Full Review
- November 21
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- SpaceX's 1st Crew Dragon Test Flight to Launch Jan. 7, NASA Says
- For NASA's InSight Mars Lander, All Systems Are Go for Monday Touchdown
- European Vega Rocket Launches Moroccan Satellite Into Orbit
- NASA Studying Three-Stage Approach to Human-Class Lunar Landers
- Syfy's Krypton Season 1 Blu-ray Details
- This HAL 9000-Inspired AI Simulation Kept Its Virtual Astronauts Alive
- NASA's Radar Expertise Is Helping California's Woolsey Fire Recovery
- Shinola 'Moon Bean' Timepiece Features Apollo Astronaut's Artwork
- Cluttering the Space Commons? Upcoming SpaceX Launch Irks Orbital Debris Experts
- Discovery of Hotspots Circling Milky Way Black Hole Has Astronomers Excited
- Space Tango Plans In-Orbit Manufacturing
- Mars Mission Advocates See Benefits in NASA's Lunar Exploration Plans
- November 20
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- Elon Musk's Weed Puff Spurs NASA Safety Review of SpaceX, Boeing: Report
- Virgin Orbit Performs First Captive-Carry Flight
- No More BFR: SpaceX Changing Name of Mars-Colonizing Rocket, Spaceship
- Space Station Astronauts Mark Their Home's 20th Birthday with a Video Message
- Star Wars: The Mandalorian Adds Deadpool's Gina Carano — Report
- The Milky Way's Reflection Shines on Surface of the Moon in Stunning New Image
- 'An Entirely New Way Of Thinking': The ISS Celebrates 20 Years in Space
- Astronauts Snap Amazing Last Glances of Space Station For 20th Anniversary (Gallery)
- 'Once Upon a Star' Is a Poetic Exploration of the Cosmos
- A Broken Universe: 'Your Place in the Universe' Book Excerpt
- 'Your Place in the Universe': Interview with Author Paul Sutter
- Mars 2020 Rover Will Land at Ancient Lakebed to Search for Signs of Life
- Astronaut's-Eye Time Lapse Offers Incredible View of Earth from Space
- November 19
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- Red Planet Inhabitants Face Constant Turmoil in 'Mars' Episode 2
- Jezero Crater or Bust! NASA Picks Landing Site for Mars 2020 Rover
- How Satellites Are Helping California's Wildfire Recovery Efforts
- NASA's InSight Lands on Mars Soon! Here's How to Watch It All Live.
- NASA's InSight Mars Lander Touches Down 1 Week from Today!
- NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine Worried About Budget Pressures on Space Agency
- 'Mission to the Sun': National Geographic to Air Parker Solar Probe Special Tonight! (Video)
- The Earth Is Eating Its Own Oceans
- NASA to Make Mars 2020 Rover Landing Site Announcement Today! How to Listen Live.
- November 18
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- Robotic Russian Cargo Ship Delivers Tons of Supplies to Space Station
- SpaceX Delays Historic Third Launch of Used Rocket (and Its Flock of Satellites)
- Space Station's Robotic Cargo Ship Fleet (A Photo Guide)
- Former Google Lunar X Prize Teams Still Working on Lunar Landers
- Beam Us Up! Colliding Galaxy Clusters Look Like Starship Enterprise (Photo)
- At Small Satellite Conference, Frustration About Lagging Efforts to Deal With Space Junk
- Pegasus, the Flying Horse, Marks Mid-Autumn Skies
- European Researchers Baked Fake Moon Dust into Money and Screws
- November 17
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- Antares Rocket Launches NASA Cargo to Space Station in Dazzling Predawn Liftoff
- Do Not Fear the Dark Matter Hurricane (The Dark Matter Hurricane Is Good)
- Here's How NASA's Mars InSight Will Phone Home After Its Dramatic Landing
- Big New Indian Rocket Launches Satellite, Setting Stage for Moon Mission
- The Amazing Predawn Antares Rocket Launch of Cygnus NG-10 in Photos
- November 16
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- Live-Action Star Wars: Cassian Andor Show Coming to Disney Streaming Service
- Climate Change Made Recent Hurricanes Wetter. And They May Get Worse.
- Farewell, Kepler: NASA Shuts Down Prolific Planet-Hunting Space Telescope
- The 1st Powerhouse for NASA's Orion Space Capsule Just Arrived at Its Launch Site
- An Antares Rocket Will Launch Cargo to Space Station Saturday! How to Watch Live.
- In Photos: India's Most Powerful Rocket Aces 2nd Test Launch!
- Blastoff! Russian Spaceship Launches Tons of Supplies to Space Station
- NASA's Orion Space Capsule Sails at Sunset in This Awesome Video
- Intergalactic Thriller 'Origin' Now Streaming on YouTube
- Signal Blip Sparks False Alarm for NASA's Opportunity Rover on Mars
- Spectacular Photos: NASA Practices Orion Space Capsule Recovery at Sea
- The 2018 Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend! Here's What to Expect
- Russia Will Launch a Cargo Ship to the Space Station Today! Here's How to Watch.
- In Photos: SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Es'hail-2 Satellite, Then Lands Back on Earth
- November 15
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- A Used SpaceX Rocket Just Launched a Satellite for Qatar, Then Aced a Landing
- NASA, Northrop Grumman Postpone Space Station Cargo Ship Launch to Saturday
- Superbrilliant Galaxy Got Its Energy by Gobbling Up Its Neighbors
- Watch SpaceX Launch a Satellite and Land a Rocket Today!
- Epic Crash of Neutron Stars Creates 'Hypermassive Magnetar'
- Voyager 2 Creeps Closer to the Edge of the Solar System
- How Satellites Are Tracking Devastation of California Wildfires from Space
- Lost Continents Beneath Antarctica Unveiled in Dead Satellite's Data
- Predawn Antares Rocket Launch Saturday Will Be Visible Along US East Coast
- Want to Use a Drone to Watch the Antares Rocket Launch? NASA Has Rules
- Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua Is Probably a Small, Surprisingly Shiny Comet
- What's 'Out There?' Space.com's Mike Wall Dishes on the Search for Aliens
- November 14
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- Watch Northrop Grumman Roll Its Antares Rocket to the Pad for Launch! (Time-Lapse Video)
- Bad Weather Forces NASA, Northrop Grumman to Delay Cargo Launch to Space Station
- In Pictures: The Giant Crater Beneath Greenland Explained
- Scientists Spot What May Be a Giant Impact Crater Hidden Under Greenland Ice
- Downlink! New Space Game Depicts Spacecraft Launches & Science
- Icy 'Super-Earth' Exoplanet Spotted Around Nearby Barnard's Star
- These Organic-Inspired Planetary Landers Could Help NASA Reach Other Worlds
- What Does Sunrise on Mars Sound Like? Listen Here.
- A Twilight Moon Takes a Peek at Historic Church in Barcelona (Photo)
- November 13
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- Japanese Space Capsule Prototype Survives Fiery Fall to Earth
- Some Strange Science Will Launch Into Space This Week for NASA
- Devastation from Deadly Camp and Woolsey Fires Seen from Space
- In Photos: The 2018 California Wildfires as Seen from Space
- A Decade of Commercial Space Travel — What's Next?
- 'How to Live in Space': A Q&A with Author Colin Stuart
- How Life Could Help Atmospheric Tides Slow a Planet's Rotation
- The Hubble Telescope Has Found a Smile in Space to Warm Your Heart
- November 12
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- Capitalism on Mars? Nat Geo's 'Mars' Season 2 Premiere Parallels Frontier Struggles on Earth
- NASA Chief Honors US Military in Veterans Day Video
- Rocket Lab's 1st Commercial Launch in Pictures: 'It's Business Time'!
- Astronaut Rusty Schweickart Looks Back on Apollo 9, and to the Next Asteroid Impact
- A Mars Journey Before Computers? A Q&A with 'The Fated Sky' Author Mary Robinette Kowal
- From the Moon to Mars: Excerpt from 'The Fated Sky' (Tor 2018)
- Colonizing Mars Means Contaminating Mars — And Never Knowing For Sure If It Had Its Own Native Life
- Massive Solar Eruptions 'Probably' Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in Vietnam War
- November 11
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- Scale of California's Deadly Camp Fire Shown in Satellite Photos
- On Nat Geo's 'Mars' Season 2, Tensions Grow As Scientists Clash with Miners
- See Saturn, Mars and the Moon Shine in This Week's Evening Sky
- NASA Chief Sees Bold Future on Mars and the Moon
- It's Business Time! Rocket Lab Lofts 6 Satellites on 1st Commercial Launch
- November 10
- November 9
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- Spectacular 'Dragon's Eye' on Jupiter Spotted by NASA's Juno
- NASA's Curiosity Rover on Mars Is Rolling (and Drilling) Again
- In Photos: Rocket Lab and Its Electron Booster
- Expedition 57: The Space Station Mission in Photos
- Here's How Much the Earth Weighs in 'Ghostly' Neutrinos
- NASA Figures Out Where Weirdly Rectangular Iceberg Was Born
- Water Deep in Earth's Core May Come from Dust Swirling Around the Sun
- Billionaire Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Initiatives Eyes Private Mission to Seek Alien Life
- As the Asteroid Turns: NASA Probe Snaps Video of Spinning Bennu
- Where Are All the Aliens? 'Out There' Book Excerpt
- NASA's Restored Mission Control Consoles Touch Down in Houston
- Astronaut Basks in Earth's 'Glory' Rainbow from Space Station (Photo)
- SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Certified to Launch NASA's Most Precious Science Missions
- Accion's 1st Space Thrusters Could Launch on a Cubesat This Weekend
- Venus Brings an Early Morning Light, Just Before Sunrise
- Was Life on the Early Earth Purple?
- November 8
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- 'Infinite Wonder': Scott Kelly Documents Yearlong Space Mission with New Photobook
- 'Infinite Wonder': Photos from Scott Kelly's Year in Space Mission
- Dreaming of Mars Since Age 13, Astronaut Abby Inspires Women in STEM
- This 13.5-Billion-Year-Old Star Is a Tiny Relic from Just After the Big Bang
- Future Spacesuits Should Be Beautiful — and Not Just for Space. Here's Why.
- NASA's Sun-Kissing Solar Probe Survives 1st Flyby of Our Star
- Diamond Asteroids: How Bennu and Ryugu Got Their Fancy Shapes
- SpaceX to Build 'Mini BFR' Version of Mars Ship to Fly on Falcon 9, Elon Musk Says
- November 7
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- Japanese Cargo Ship Departs Space Station. Next Stop: Oblivion.
- Ghostly Orange Light Envelopes Earth During Rare Airglow
- Supermassive Black Holes Collide in First-Ever Views of Galactic Merger Final Stages
- Which First Man? Film Doesn't Depict Real Neil Armstrong (Op-Ed)
- New Book Reveals the Strange and Remarkable History of Space Stations
- Culberson Loses as Democrats Win House; Nelson Losing Senate Re-election
- This Space Station Air Recycler Could Help Astronauts Breathe Easier on Mars
- Florida Senator Went to Space While in Office, But He May Be Going Home
- Monster Rifts in Comet Tails Are Sculpted By the Sun
- In Search for Alien Planets, a New Era Will Rise from Kepler's Demise
- Why NASA Chose a 'Vanilla Ice Cream' Landing Site on Mars for the InSight Lander
- New Supercomputer with 1 Million Processors Is World's Fastest Brain-Mimicking Machine
- Technical Glitch Delays Launch of NASA's ICON Satellite on Pegasus Rocket
- Soyuz Rocket Launches European Weather Satellite MetOp-C Into Orbit
- In Photos: Europe Launches MetOp-C Weather Satellite
- November 6
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- Europe Is Launching a New Weather Satellite Tonight. Watch It Live!
- NASA Will Launch a Satellite to Study the Edge of Space Overnight. Here's How to Watch.
- Wild Idea: What If Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Is an Alien Light Sail?
- Pew! Pew! Pew! Powerful Laser Beacon Could Show Aliens Earth Is Inhabited
- Under the Roof of the Cosmos, Stargazer Reaches for the Sky (Photo)
- Could Life Hitch a Ride on Interstellar Visitors Like 'Oumuamua?
- This Planetary Scientist Is Now a Certified Genius
- Election Day 2018 Takes Absentee Ballots to the Extreme in Space
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe Just Made Its First Close Pass by the Sun!
- November 5
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- Neil Armstrong Collection Commands $5.2 Million at Auction
- Watch Thousands of Dancing Robots Combine on Dark Energy Instrument (Video)
- NASA's 1st 8K Video from Space Is Just Awesome
- Soyuz Rocket Successfully Launches Russian Navigation Satellite
- Now That Dawn Is History, Should NASA Send Another Mission to Ceres?
- Elon Musk Backs Space Force Proposal
- A Deadly, Fast-Spreading Form of Super-Ice Could Be Killing Off Alien Life-Forms
- November 4
- November 3
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- SpaceX's 'Starman' and Its Tesla Roadster Are Now Beyond Mars
- SpaceX's Epic Road Trip Photos: Starman Rides a Tesla Roadster Across Space
- Orbital Debris Removal Company Astroscale Raises $50 Million
- 2 Big NASA Space Missions Ended This Week, But Don't Panic
- Cold, Dark Stars Lurking in the Universe Could Act Like Single Giant Atoms
- November 2
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- Total Lunar Eclipse Gets a Cloudy Halo in Cool Time-Lapse Video
- Gravity Assist Podcast: Planetary Defense with Kelly Fast
- Vans' 'Space Voyager' Line for NASA's 60th Is Out-of-This-World Chic
- Tiny Lakes Once Pooled on Ancient Mars, Only to Fade Away
- Vans and NASA Put Out Some Cosmic Kicks for 60th Anniversary
- The US Shot Down a Fake Nuclear Missile in Space with Another Missile (Video)
- Asteroid Mining Company Planetary Resources Acquired by Blockchain Firm
- It's Sunset for NASA's Dawn, But Asteroid Belt Probe's Legacy Lives On
- 6 Minutes of Terror: What NASA's InSight Mars Lander Faces to Reach the Red Planet
- This Stuff Is Circling the Drain of Our Galaxy's Monster Black Hole (Videos)
- Rocket Lab Eyes 'Business Time' with 1st Commercial Launch Next Week
- November 1
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- Dawn Is Dead: NASA's Pioneering Asteroid-Belt Mission Runs Out of Fuel
- Soyuz Already Back in the Saddle, with Crewed Launch Set for Early December
- The Mars Society's Robert Zubrin Has a 'Moon Direct' Plan to Drive a Lunar Economy
- 'Ask a Spaceman' Seeks Out the Elusive Quark Star in Finale
- Russians ID Cause of Soyuz Launch Abort, Release Dramatic Rocket Video
- Soyuz Space Crew Launch Failure 2018: Full Coverage
- Thousands of Astronaut Neil Armstrong's Mementos Up for Auction
- Skull-Shaped 'Halloween Asteroid' Will Zip by Earth Again This Month
- NASA Has a Wild Idea to Send 1 Probe to 7 Different Asteroids and It Could Launch In 2021
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe Just Started Its First Skim Past the Sun
- Happy Birthday, Arecibo! At 55, Iconic Radio Telescope Survives Hurricane, Funding Challenges
- Space Has Always Been Militarized, Just Not Weaponized — Not Yet, Anyway
