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May 31
- SpaceX Says Its 60 Starlink Satellites Are All Phoning Home (and Fading Out)
- Vortex Rocket Engine for Private Dream Chaser Space Plane Passes Big Test
- NASA Just Picked These 3 Companies to Build Private Moon Landers for Lunar Science
- Carnivores Roam the Springtime Night Sky
- See Earth's Amazing Beauty from Space in This Time-Lapse Video by an Astronaut
- NASA to Unveil 1st Commercial Moon Landing Services Selection Today. How to Watch
- 3 Ways Fundamental Particles Travel at (Nearly) the Speed of Light
- Former Head of Pentagon's Secret UFO Program Has Some (Strange) Stories to Tell
- Behold! This Stunning Light Art Is Actually a Sky Filled with X-Rays
May 30
- Northrop Grumman Investigates Anomaly from 1st OmegA Rocket Motor Test
- Russian Proton Rocket Launches Powerful Yamal-601 Satellite Into Orbit
- This Video of a 1900 Total Solar Eclipse Is the Oldest One Ever (and Made by a Magician!)
- Listen to the Void: Why Cosmic Nothingness Has So Much to Say
- New Lego Space Sets Take Kids to Mars, Brick by Brick
- Fold This! Origami-Inspired Material Could Soften Spacecraft Landings
- The Lego 'Eagle' Has Landed: NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander Revealed
- Lego's Epic Apollo 11 Lunar Lander Set in Photos!
- Watch the Clouds on Mars Glide By in This Curiosity Rover Video
- How Did Earth Get Its Water? Scientists Now Look to 'Hyperactive' Comets for Clues
- Harrison Ford Narrates First Moonwalker's Words in 'Armstrong' Film
- Mathematicians Edge Closer to Solving a 'Million Dollar' Math Problem
- Astronomers Spot 'Forbidden Planet' in Neptunian Desert
- Happy Birthday! Spacewalking Cosmonauts Pay Tribute to Pioneering Predecessor
May 29
- On Icy Pluto, Volcanoes May Spout Liquid Water
- Big Space Challenges Could Put NASA's Europa Missions on Ice
- 100 Years Ago, a Total Solar Eclipse Experiment Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- 'Fleet of UFOs' Followed US Aircraft, Navy Pilot Says
- Sun's Exotic 'Lighthouse' Pulses Captured on Camera for First Time
- Case Remakes Astronaut M-1 Machete for Apollo Moon Landing 50th
- Breakthrough Needed? Starshot Interstellar-Flight Project Faces Challenges
- Two White Dwarf Stars Collided and Came Back from the Dead. Soon, They’ll Go Supernova.
- US and Japan to Cooperate on Return to the Moon
- What Effect will Brexit Have on UK Spaceflight?
- Intrepid Museum Honors Apollo Software Engineer Margaret Hamilton
- 'An Obsession of Einstein' Dances Through Space-Time on Stage at the World Science Festival: Watch on PBS Tonight
- You Can Watch Cosmonauts Spacewalk Outside the Space Station Today! Here's How
- Exploding Stars May Have Put Humanity on Two Feet
- 18 New Earth-Size Exoplanets Pop Up In Old Kepler Planet-Hunting Data
May 28
- Scientists Cook Up a New Way to Make Breathable Oxygen on Mars
- SpaceX, NASA Finish Cleaning Up Site of Crew Dragon Spacecraft Explosion
- Astronomers Catch Distant Star Producing Massive Flare and Plasma Blob
- Titanic Galactic Collision Left One Galaxy Twisted and Warped, Hubble Reveals
- Momentum Grows for Nuclear Thermal Space Propulsion
- Men, Women … and Mars: How Gender Diversity Is Key for Success on the Red Planet
- Astronauts Are Heading Under the Sea to Test Moon Mission Tech
- Earth's Oldest Meteorite Collection Just Found in the Driest Place on the Planet
- Neptune's Moon Triton Has a Rare Kind of Ice
- The Sand Dunes of Mars Move in a Weird Way
- Two Female Monkeys Went to Space 60 Years Ago. One Became the Poster Child for Astronaut Masculinity
- Able and Baker: The First Primates to Survive Spaceflight in Photos
- Why Are Two Stars in Our Galaxy Suddenly Acting Very Strange?
May 27
- Lightning Strikes Russian Rocket During Satellite Launch (But Everything's Fine)
- Elon Musk: SpaceX's Bright Starlink Satellites Won't Ruin the Night Sky
- Memorial Day 2019 Is No Time to Rest for Busy Astronauts
May 26
- Day Meets Night in This Amazing Astronaut Photo of Earth from Space
- Hidden Winds on Jupiter May Be Messing with Its Enormous Magnetic Field
- Could We Move the Entire Planet Earth to a New Orbit?
May 25
- An Asteroid with Its Own Moon Will Zip Past Earth Tonight
- Space Travel Causes Joint Problems in Mice. But, What About Humans?
- Find Corvus, the Crafty Crow, In the Spring Southern Sky
- Wow! This Is What SpaceX's Starlink Satellites Look Like in the Night Sky
- Elon Musk Says It's 'So Far, So Good' for SpaceX's 1st 60 Starlink Satellites
- Boeing Completes Tests of Starliner Thrusters
May 24
- SpaceX Launches New Legal Battle Against US Air Force
- Sirangelo Leaves NASA After Exploration Reorganization Scrapped
- Land Rover Unveils Astronaut Edition Vehicle, for Virgin Galactic Space Tourists Only!
- Amateur Astronomers See 'Blades' on Jupiter's Great Red Spot
- Gorgeous Orion Nebula Glows in Stunning Red and Blue Light (Photo)
- Wisconsin High School Again Lands the Top Prize in National Rocketry Competition
- SpaceX's 60-Satellite Launch Is Just the Beginning for Starlink Megaconstellation Project
- Flag Flown by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 Moon Landing Donated to Explorers Club
- How an Inflating Universe Could Create a Multiverse
- NASA's Grand Plan for a Lunar Gateway Is to Start Small
- SpaceX's 1st Starlink Internet Satellite Megaconstellation Launch in Photos!
- SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Satellites on Thrice-Flown Rocket, Sticks Landing
- SpaceX Will Make History with 60-Satellite Launch Tonight
May 23
- The First Trailer for 'Star Trek: Picard' Is Here
- 'Terminator: Dark Fate' First Teaser Trailer Has Arrived
- NASA Taps Maxar to Build Lunar Gateway Power Module for Artemis Moon Plan
- China Appears to Have Suffered a Long March Launch Failure
- Could Microbes Live in Martian Dust? Mission Designers Are Thinking Ahead for Red Planet Crews
- SpaceX Launching 60 'Starlink' Internet Satellites Tonight: Watch Live
- NASA Has a Full Plate of Lunar Missions Before Astronauts Can Return to Moon
- Huge Amount of Water Ice Is Spotted on Mars (It Could Be Long-Lost Polar Ice Caps)
- India Readies Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission for July Launch
- How Dead Aliens Could Help Save Humanity
- Going Back to the Moon — for Good (Op-Ed)
May 22
- This NASA Experiment Shows Promise for Farm-Fresh Foods in Space
- Planet-Hunting Cubesat Spies Los Angeles from Space!
- You Can Send Your Name to the Red Planet on NASA's Mars 2020 Rover
- Watch Saturn Play Peekaboo with the Moon Tonight!
- USC Students' Rocket Reaches Space in Record-Setting Launch
- Science As a Full Body Experience: Brian Greene On 2019 World Science Festival
- Sen Launched 4K Video Cameras Into Space. Here's What They Saw.
- This Weird Meteorite Crashed Through a Doghouse in Costa Rica. (The Dog's Fine)
- How SpaceX's Starlink Internet Satellites Could Help Humanity Colonize Mars
- Supersymmetric 'Sleptons' Might Exist. But They'd Have to Be Huge.
- In Photos: India Launches the RISAT-2B Earth-Imaging Satellite
- India Successfully Launches RISAT-2B Earth-Observation Satellite
May 21
- Watch India Launch a New Earth-Watching Satellite Tonight!
- NASA Puts Mars 2020 Rover's Space Ride to the Test (Photo)
- In 2020, NASA Will Send Living Things to Deep Space for First Time Since Apollo
- 'Finding Our Place in the Universe' Details Quest for Earth's Supercluster: Author Q&A
- First-Ever Image of a Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Burst Shows Light Exploding Out of a Thundercloud in Asia
- Why Is the Pentagon Interested in UFOs?
- Space Tourism Is About to Push Civilian Astronaut Medicine Into the Final Frontier
- Best Spaceflight and Space History Books
- Scientists Reveal New Details of Dwarf Planet Haumea's Elusive Ring
- A Giant Hole in the Martian Atmosphere Is Venting All Its Water into Space
- There's a Brand-New Kilogram, And It's Based on Quantum Physics
- The Moon Has Two Faces. This Cosmic Crash May Be Why
May 20
- Lego Fan Vote Could Launch International Space Station As Toy Set
- Pluto Has a Buried Ocean — And So Might Many Other Worlds
- SpaceX to Launch 60 'Starlink' Internet Satellites Thursday
- NASA's Moon Return Among Key Topics at 2019 International Space Development Conference
- Omega Celebrates 'Iconic Hours' of Apollo 11 With New Speedmaster Moonwatch
- How to Make Moon Water: Add Solar Wind, Tiny Meteorites, and Then Heat
- 'Rehearsal' Dinner: Gala Celebrates Apollo 10 Moon Mission's 50th Anniversary
- Ariana Grande Loves Space, So NASA Took Her to Mission Control
- How Space Station and Moon Missions Will Prep Astronauts for Mars
- Could Blockchain Tech Launch Spacefaring Nations Into a Data-Sharing Frontier
- Next-Gen Megascope for Astronomy Taking Shape on Chilean Mountaintop
May 19
- SpaceX vs. Drogon: Which Dragon Wins the 'Game of Thrones'?
- Startup Hermeus Wants to Build a Hypersonic Jet That Flies at 5 Times the Speed of Sound
- Cost of Delta IV Heavy Rocket Launches is Down But the Real Price Is a Secret
- Parachute Development a Challenge for Commercial Crew
May 18
- SpaceX Is Building a 'Starship' Rocket Prototype in Florida, Too
- Caught Speeding: Illinois Patrol Cop Spies Blazing Fireball (Video)
- Snoopy to the Moon! Apollo 10 Commander Looks Back on Historic Flight 50 Years Ago
- Here's Three Free Posters to Celebrate NASA's Apollo Anniversaries (and Space.com's, Too!)
- Watch the Blue Moon of May 2019 Rise Today in a Live Webcast!
May 17
- This Yellow Egyptian Glass Was Forged by a Meteorite Impact 29 Million Years Ago
- NASA's Prolific Mars Orbiter Completes 60,000th Lap of Red Planet
- Oh the Places (on Mars) You'll Go! Here's Where NASA's Curiosity Rover Is Headed
- Will NASA's Rush to Land Astronauts on the Moon Get Us to Mars Any Faster?
- 'Star Trek' Picard Spinoff Series Gets Official Name and Logo
- Kennedy Space Center Marks Apollo 50th With Mission Trading Cards
- The Scientists Behind the First Black Hole Photo Get Nod from Congress
- May's Full Flower Moon Saturday Is, Somehow, a Blue Moon. Here's Why
- NASA Awards $45.5 Million for Private Moon Lander Work on Project Artemis
- 'Apollo at the Park' to Bring Armstrong Spacesuit Statues to MLB Baseball
- Ready Your Recorders! NASA Wants Your Apollo Moon Landing Memories
- SpaceX Delays Launch of 60 Starlink Satellites Again, This Time for Software Checks
May 16
- A Gentle Kiss: How the Kuiper Belt Object Ultima Thule Was Born
- The Women of 'Firefly' to Launch On a New Adventure in 'The Sting'
- Something Strange Punched a Hole in the Milky Way. But What Exactly Is It?
- Goodnight, Chang'e-4! China's Probe on Moon's Far Side Naps for Lunar Night
- Solid, Low-Mass Planets Have Best Chance to Survive Parent Star's Death
- Space Mining Could Ruin Our Solar System If We Don't Establish Protected Places Now, Researchers Warn
- New Supercomputer Will Span Continents, Outrace World's Fastest
- SpaceX Delays Launch of 60 Starlink Internet Satellites Over High Winds
- SpaceX Is Launching 60 Starlink Internet Satellites Thursday: How to Watch Live
May 15
- Moon Crash Site Found! NASA Probe Spots Grave of Israeli Lunar Lander
- What Lies Below the Moon's Crust? China's Yutu-2 Rover May Be the First to Find Out.
- Congressional Report: Space Force Would Cost Billions More Than DoD Estimated
- Rocket Mortgage Underwrites New Statue of Apollo 11 Astronauts
- Saving Hubble: How a Space Telescope Repair 10 Years Ago Almost Never Happened (Video)
- Alien Minds, Alien Tech (and Spiders, Too): Q&A With Sci-Fi Author Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Elon Musk to Receive Stephen Hawking Communication Prize from Astrophysicist Brian May
May 14
- Oreo to Celebrate Apollo Moon Landing 50th With Limited Edition Cookies
- Bill Nye Brings Out the F-Bombs and a Blowtorch to Talk Climate Change
- 'Game of Thrones' Showrunners to Helm Next 'Star Wars' Film
- Accelerating Moon Landing to 2024 May Make It More Achievable, NASA Chief Says
- If There Were a Time Warp, How Would Physicists Find It?
- This NASA Spacecraft Will Crash into an Asteroid to Test Earth's Defenses Against Space Rocks
- Mars' Moon Phobos Looks Sweet Enough to Eat in New Images
- Supermoon Looms Over Portuguese Palace in Dreamy Night-Sky Photo
- Humans to Mars Summit 2019 Launches in D.C. This Week: Watch It Live!
- How Earth Life Could Come Back from a Sterilizing Asteroid Impact
- The Universe Probably 'Remembers' Every Single Gravitational Wave
- 'Apollo's Legacy': Space Historian Talks Lunar Science, Politics — and a Return to the Moon
- NASA Names New Moon Landing Program Artemis After Apollo's Sister
- Trump Proposes Extra $1.6 Billion for NASA's 2024 Return to Moon
May 13
- 'Exhalation' Collection Will Expand Your Mind: A Q&A with Short Story Author Ted Chiang
- Moonquakes Rattle the Moon as It Shrinks Like a Raisin
- SpaceX to Launch 60 Satellites for Starlink Megaconstellation Soon. This Is What They Look Like
- The Crescent Moon Looks Absolutely Gorgeous from Space in This Astronaut Photo
- Picard Faces Psychological Drama in New 'Star Trek' Series
- Never Fear, 'Orville' Fans! Fox Renews Sci-Fi Show for Third Season
- 'The Girl Who Named Pluto' Stars in New Picture Book
- Watch Future Mars Settlers Ride a Space Elevator in This 'Aniara' Sci-Fi Film Clip
- Galaxies Collide! Burst of Star Formation in Milky Way Likely Came from Cosmic Crash
- NASA's Voyager and Pioneer Probes Launched Decades Ago and Are Still Out There. Here's Where They'll End Up.
May 12
- ULA Awarded $149 Million Delta IV Heavy Launch Contract for NRO Mission
- A Star in the Big Dipper Is an Alien Invader
- These Ancient Galaxies Are Far Brighter Than Expected. Does That Signal a Cosmic Turning Point?
- Pirates Made Ocean Vortex 'The Great Whirl' Inaccessible. So Scientists Studied It from Space.
May 11
- Blue Origin Kicks Off Kids' Space Club With Offer to Launch Postcards
- How DARPA's Experimental R3D2 Satellite Was Built Super Fast
- Beanie Babies, the Invention of CubeSat and Student-designed and Built Satellites
May 10
- Blue Origin's Lunar Lander: A Photo Tour
- Blue Moon: Here's How Blue Origin's New Lunar Lander Works
- Virgin Galactic Moving Test Flights to New Mexico to Prep for Commercial Operations
- Rocket Lab Announces Date, Payloads for Satellite Rideshare Launch
- Elon Musk Jabs Jeff Bezos Over Blue Origin's Moon Lander
- NASA Will Aim a DART at Target Asteroid in Upcoming Deflection Test
- SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket to Land on Display at Space Center Houston
- Here's the Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge
- Black Hole Photos Could Get Even Clearer with Space-Based Telescopes
- Apollo Fusion Obtains Hall Thruster Technology from JPL
- Are Astronauts Worth Tens of Billions of Dollars in Extra Costs to go to Mars?
- 'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 3: What We Know and What We Hope For
May 9
- Blue Origin Unveils 'Blue Moon,' Its Big Lunar Lander
- When Will We See Another Bright Comet?
- Opening Up the Moon: Q&A with 'Moon Rush' Author Leonard David
- Female Astronauts: How Performance Products Like Space Suits and Bras are Designed to Pave the Way for Women's Accomplishments
- Mysterious 'Sub-Neptunes' Are Probably Water Worlds
- Awesome NASA Time-Lapse Video Shows the Moon's Phases During Apollo Lunar Landings
- Crew Dragon Parachutes Failed in Recent Test
- North Korea, US Fire Missiles in Early-Morning Tests (Video)
- Antimatter Is Both a Particle and a Wave, New Experiment Confirms
- Off the Coast of Portugal, the Earth's Crust Might Be Peeling in Two
- Farewell, Chewbacca: Astronaut Honors Peter Mayhew of 'Star Wars' in Space
- Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin Making Big Spaceflight Announcement Today
- Cost of 2024 Moon Landing Is Still a Mystery
- Could There Be Life on Mars Today?
- Waves Washing Through Blue 'Supergiant' Stars Change Their Brightness
May 8
- SpaceX to Launch 'Dozens' of Starlink Satellites Next Week, More to Follow
- The Aral Sea Drying Out. This NASA Time-Lapse Video Shows It from Space
- Whirling 'Collapsar' Stars Gave Universe Its Gold
- Ancient Neutron-Star Crash Made Enough Gold and Uranium to Fill Earth's Oceans
- With New Gravitational-Wave Detectors, More Cosmic Mysteries Will Be Solved
- Watch Egyptian Desert Transform As Crop Circles Sprout in Time-Lapse Video
- NASA Is Developing 'Soft Robots' to Help Explore Other Worlds
- InSight Mars Lander Snaps Dusty Selfie on Red Planet (Photo)
- Even If We Can Stop a Dangerous Asteroid, Being Human May Mean We Don't Succeed
- Secretive Startup SpinLaunch Breaks Ground on Satellite-Flinging Test Flight Facility
- Algae 'Bioreactor' on Space Station Could Make Oxygen, Food for Astronauts
May 7
- Golden Moon Rises in a Pink Sky Over Niagara Falls (Photo)
- See a Comet Cat and Other Amazing Rosetta Views in This 70,000-Photo Archive
- Watch Japan's 1st Private Rocket Launch Into Space (Video)
- Neil Armstrong's Son Recalls His 'First Man' Dad as Apollo 11 Items Go Up for Auction
- Three More 'Star Wars' Movies Announced
- Pence Reaffirms Trump Administration's Support for Space
- China's iSpace to Make Private Orbital Launch Attempt in Early June
- New York City Has Been Obliterated in a New Asteroid-Impact Simulation
- Venus Missions? Interstellar Probes? Here Are 18 Wild Space Tech Ideas NASA Is Looking At
- Mars Meets Up with the Crescent Moon Tonight! Here's How to See It
- Boulders on Diamond-Shaped Asteroids Hint at Dusty Landslides
May 6
- As Gaia Maps Our Galaxy, This Telescope Keeps an Eye on the Spacecraft
- This Awesome Spiral Galaxy View from Hubble May Help Demystify Black Holes
- Space Adventures Reaches Settlement with Would-Be Lunar Tourist
- North Korea's Short-Range Missile Test Spotted from Space (Photo)
- Fire in the Sky: New Space Extinguisher Sucks in Flames Instead of Smothering Them
- Richard Nixon's Apollo 11 Artifacts on Display at Presidential Library
- Monster Cyclone Fani Over India Looked Fearsome from Space
- SpaceX Dragon Delivers NASA Cargo to Space Station
- That Weird, Aurora-Like Phenomenon Called STEVE Finally Has an Explanation
- The Gaia Spacecraft Was Studying Stars, But It Found Something Else — 3 Asteroids
- A Fake Asteroid Headed to Earth Can Really Make You Think
May 5
- Scientists Lobby NASA for Additional Planetary Defense Missions
- Blue Origin's Amazing NS-11 New Shepard Spacecraft Test Flight in Photos
- NASA Outlines Plan for 2024 Moon Landing
- NASA Chief Plays Down Costs of 2024 Moon Landing
- NASA Tweaks Call for Moon Lander Concepts
- This Epic Hubble Telescope Mosaic Is a Cosmic 'History Book' of Galaxies
- Monster Mars Dust Storms May Have Helped Blow Red Planet's Water Away
- Rocket Lab Launches 3 Experimental Satellites for US Air Force
May 4
- The Hunt for Dangerous Asteroids: Here's How Scientists Do It
- Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight! Look Toward the 'Water Jar'
- It's Star Wars Day and SpaceX Just Launched Its Own 'Falcon' Into Space
- Lego Boost Droid Commander Turns Coding Into a Star Wars Mission
- Lego 'Star Wars' Minifigures Through the Years in Photos
- Five Epic 'Star Wars' Lego Anniversary Sets to Celebrate May The Fourth
- SpaceX Dragon Launches NASA Cargo to Space Station, Aces Predawn Rocket Landing
- Rocket Lab Delays Electron Launch for US Air Force
May 3
- Rocket Lab to Launch 3 Satellites for US Air Force Early Sunday. How to Watch
- This Scientist Is Creating Fictional Asteroids to Save Humanity from Armageddon
- Peter Mayhew, Star Wars's Original, Iconic Chewbacca, Dies at 74
- How a Last-Ditch Hack Led to the Invention of Quantum Mechanics
- Could Life on Earth Have Come from Another Star System?
- 2,000-Year-Old Cosmic Fossil Found from Star Explosion Chinese Astronomers Saw Millenia Ago
- Spawned by Halley's Comet, the 2019 Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peaks This Week
- SpaceX Delays Dragon Cargo Ship Launch for NASA Due to Drone Ship Glitch
May 2
- Navy Plans to Document UFO Sightings, But Keep Them Confidential
- Soar Through the Heart of a Supernova in This Gorgeous New Simulation
- A Killer Asteroid Is Coming — We Don't Know When (So Let's Be Ready), Bill Nye Says
- SpaceX Will Launch a Dragon Cargo Ship for NASA Before Dawn Saturday! Here's How to Watch.
- 'Improved' Gravitational-Wave Detectors Rake in Five Exciting Finds in a Month
- SpaceX Confirms Dragon Capsule Was Destroyed in Test 'Anomaly', Could Affect Crew Launches
- Blue Origin's New Shepard Spacecraft Launches Biggest Mission Yet, Sticks Landing
- Blue Origin to Launch Test Flight of Its New Shepard Spacecraft Today! How to Watch
- How Do You Stop a Hypothetical Asteroid From Hitting Earth? NASA's On It.
- See a Martian Sunrise (and Sunset, Too!) in Gorgeous NASA InSight Photos
- 'The Mandalorian': Here's What We Know So Far About the 'Star Wars' Live Action Show
May 1
- Happy Cosmic Birthday! NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Celebrates 60 Years
- Water Found in Tiny Dust Particles from Asteroid Itokawa
- NASA Workers Warned About Sharing Images After SpaceX Explosion Video Leak: Report
- Meet the Astrobees! These Tiny, Cube-Shaped Robots Have Arrived in Space
- Faster-Than-Light Particles Emit Superbright Gamma Rays that Circle Pulsars
- Creativity and the Art in Space Contest: A Conversation with OK Go's Damian Kulash
- This Antarctic Meteorite Holds a Tiny Speck of Stardust That's Older Than the Solar System
- Pow! A Meteorite Slammed into the Moon at 38,000 MPH During Lunar Eclipse
- Black Hole Spits Out High-Energy Jets at Near Light-Speed
- Hubble Spots Giant 'Buckyballs' Jiggling Like Jell-O in Space
- NASA Ties Launch Failures of Climate-Science Missions to Aluminum Manufacturer