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- January 31
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- How to see the 'elusive planet' Mercury in the night sky in February
- Live Science launches the 'Life's Little Mysteries' podcast! Get ready for far-out science questions (and answers)
- Amazon Prime's 'Troop Zero' shows inspiring effect of Voyager's 'Golden Record' on kids
- Cygnus cargo ship leaves International Space Station, begins new mission in orbit
- Physicists: Ancient life might have escaped Earth and journeyed to alien stars
- Bill Nye, bubbles and water on Mars to land at Super Bowl 2020
- Historic dual-habitat mock Mars mission begins in the Utah desert
- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is no more. Here's what's next for infrared astronomy.
- NASA unveils 16 payloads that private lunar landers will take to the moon
- Sci-fi author Andy Weir says NASA didn't name 'Artemis' moon program after his book
- Rocket Lab launches satellite for US spysat agency, guides booster back to Earth
- January 30
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- Japanese billionaire calls off girlfriend contest for moon trip on SpaceX Starship
- Life-size Baby Yoda replica opens for pre-order, immediately crashes website
- 'Star Trek: Picard' gets more 'engaging' in episode 2
- Space-time is swirling around a dead star, proving Einstein right again
- SpaceX just destroyed a huge tank for its Starship on purpose. Here's the video!
- NASA authorization bill advances in House. Proposed limits on commercial partners spur concern
- Astronaut Nicole Stott on 'making space' in Olay Super Bowl ad
- NASA honors astronauts lost in 3 space tragedies with Day of Remembrance
- No satellite crash: 2 pieces of space junk whiz safely by each other over Pittsburgh
- Rocket Lab will launch a mission for US spysat agency tonight. Watch it live!
- Farewell, Spitzer Space Telescope! NASA shuts down prolific observatory.
- How to catch every reference in 'Star Trek: Picard' episode 1 'Remembrance'
- Glowing green 'dunes' in the sky mesmerized skygazers. They turned out to be a new kind of aurora.
- The Spitzer Space Telescope's greatest exoplanet discoveries of all time
- January 29
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- World's largest solar telescope produces never-before-seen image of our star
- 2 old satellites will buzz each other over Pittsburgh tonight. Here's how to see the space junk.
- 'Star Trek's' Wil Wheaton narrates new 'The Martian' audiobook by Andy Weir
- The odds of a NASA, US military satellite crash above Pittsburgh have gone up. (They're still low.)
- 'Assembler' robots could build solar arrays and more on the moon
- Voyager 2 just missed a spin in interstellar space. But it should be fine, NASA says.
- 'Vampire' star sparks brilliant 'super-outburst' while gorging on its neighbor
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may miss March 2021 launch, GAO report says
- NASA is turning off the Spitzer Space Telescope. Its infrared eye changed our view of the universe.
- SpaceX launches 60 new Starlink satellites, sticks rocket landing at sea
- Jupiter and Saturn may leave marks on the sun's corpse
- NASA scientist gets new Earth-observation satellite named after him, a rare honor
- NASA spacecraft breaks its own record with another swing by the sun
- Potential collision of old NASA space telescope and a defunct US satellite would spawn new debris swarm
- SpaceX is launching 60 more Starlink satellites today. Here's how to watch live.
- January 28
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- Gallery: The infrared universe seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
- Alien investigation series 'Project Blue Book' shows more weird encounters in Season 2
- 'The Rentals' release tribute song for astronauts killed in the Challenger shuttle disaster
- 2 satellites will narrowly avoid colliding at 32,800 mph over Pittsburgh on Wednesday
- Jeri Ryan brings Borg back to 'Star Trek Online' as well as 'Picard'
- The 'evening star' Venus swings by the crescent moon today. Here's how to see it.
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe hears whispers of solar wind
- The International Space Station is getting a commercial module
- Hottest known exoplanet is so hot, it's tearing its molecules apart
- European Solar Orbiter will give us our first look at the sun's poles
- Proposed House bill pushes NASA's crewed moon landing back to 2028
- January 27
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- European scientists are taking a mock moon mission in Hawaii right now
- Rocket glitch delays launch of European Solar Orbiter to Feb. 7
- Fallen SpaceShipTwo pilot's name added to Space Mirror Memorial
- SpaceX postpones launch of Starlink satellite fleet due to bad weather
- Pluto and Titan are surprisingly hazy, but scientists are fuzzy on exactly why
- NASA's Mars 2020 rover photobombed by mysterious 'High Bay Bob' in sunglasses
- These twin rovers might explore the moon together one day
- Why physicists are determined to prove Galileo and Einstein wrong
- January 26
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- Mysterious particles spewing from Antarctica defy physics
- Netflix's futuristic sci-fi series 'Altered Carbon' returns with season two next month
- Firefly Aerospace rocket engine test ends in fire (video)
- 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' final season trailer, debut date revealed
- Spot Auriga the charioteer (and goat tender) in the winter sky
- Swan Nebula 'star factory' reveals protostar treasure to NASA's flying telescope
- NASA animation shows global effects of Australia wildfires, hurricanes and more
- January 25
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- Astronauts complete 4-spacewalk marathon to fix space station's $2 billion antimatter detector
- Rocket Lab's 1st launch of 2020 is for the National Reconnaissance Office, the US spysat agency
- Trump unveils new Space Force logo (yes, it looks like something from 'Star Trek')
- Google doodle celebrates lunar new year as astronaut photographs Beijing from space
- Doomsday Clock is now 100 seconds from midnight
- To find intelligent alien life, humans may need to start thinking like an extraterrestrial
- Patrick Stewart invites Whoopi Goldberg to reprise her TNG Guinan role 'Star Trek: Picard'!
- You can watch two astronauts take a spacewalk to fix a $2 billion space experiment today. Here's how.
- January 24
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- Félicette has landed! Memorial for first cat in space unveiled in France.
- A TV satellite is about to explode following 'irreversible' battery damage
- How India's moon crash wasn't really a failure (op-ed)
- Four new US spaceships may start launching people into space this year
- SpaceX will launch a 4-ton satellite for Egypt's Nilesat in 2022
- The Borg return in 'Star Trek: Picard'! Jeri Ryan and Jonathan Del Arco talk 'Seven of Nine' and 'Hugh'
- Fancy a ride on a space plane? Maybe AstroClipper will be what you're looking for.
- NASA's Mars rover Curiosity had an attitude problem. (But it's fine now.)
- Houston, we have a bake-off! We finally know what happens when you bake cookies in space
- SpaceX delays launch of next 60 Starlink satellite due to bad weather
- January 23
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- 'Star Trek: Picard' warps onto TV with an okay premiere episode
- DARPA scraps XS-1 military space plane project after Boeing drops out
- The mystery behind a superbright supernova may just have been solved
- SpaceX may try to catch Crew Dragon capsules with a giant net. (No, really.)
- 'Terminator Tape' did its job in space-junk test — and it will be back
- A complete guide to what 'Star Trek' to watch before 'Star Trek: Picard'
- China readies its new deep-space crew capsule for 1st test flight
- 'Star Trek: Picard': Why does Trek endure? TNG's Marina Sirtis and Brent Spiner explain
- Elon Musk is a genius, Trump says
- January 22
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- Northrop Grumman names Cygnus spacecraft for first African American astronaut
- In photos: SpaceX's amazing Crew Dragon in-flight abort test launch
- Why 'Picard' symbolizes hope for 'Star Trek's' Patrick Stewart
- It's time to say goodbye to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Here's why.
- These photos of SpaceX's Crew Dragon abort launch are just stunning
- This week on the Space.com forums: Seek knowledge, ask questions, win prizes!
- Ancient Australian crystals unlock history of Earth's first magnetic field
- Taika Waititi in talks to direct 'Star Wars' film — report
- Self-destructing dark matter may be flooding the sky with gamma-rays, study suggests
- How the 'comet of the century' became an astronomical disappointment
- Solar Orbiter, a new mission to the sun by Europe and NASA, to launch next month
- A burst of gravitational waves hit our planet. Astronomers have no clue where it's from.
- China releases huge batch of amazing Chang'e-4 images from moon's far side
- January 21
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- SpaceX's Crew Dragon abort test was 'picture-perfect,' Elon Musk says
- NASA's next Mars rover will get one of these 9 names
- SpaceX's Crew Dragon returns to shore after successful abort test (photos)
- Early 'soda lakes' may have provided missing ingredient key to the origin of life
- The quantum world may have a favorite flavor, tantalizing results suggest
- Earth's oldest known impact crater may tell us a lot about our planet's frozen past
- Were Alien Secrets Hidden in Roswell and Area 51? 'Project Blue Book' UFO Hunters Investigate.
- Can this new model predict which alien worlds could support life?
- Three history-making space fliers to enter Astronaut Hall of Fame in May
- Lego is launching an International Space Station model for sale
- NYC's Hayden Planetarium show 'Worlds Beyond Earth' is stunning and poignant
- SpaceX gears up for next Starlink satellite megaconstellation launch with rocket test
- After an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, volcanic eruption may have helped life flourish on Earth
- Strange 'martian' mineral mounds rise up from Utah's Great Salt Lake
- Excited for space in 2020? Join an AMA with Editor-in-Chief Tariq Malik in our Space.com Forums!
- 'Orange dwarfs' may be the best stars to study in search for life
- Astronauts honor Martin Luther King, Jr. and replace ISS batteries on 3rd all-woman spacewalk
- An all-woman Mars analog crew just 'returned to Earth' in Hawaii
- January 20
- January 19
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- SpaceX aims to launch astronauts this spring after Crew Dragon escape test success
- See the moon, Mars and Antares form a triangle in Monday's predawn sky
- SpaceX aces Crew Dragon launch abort test, destroys rocket on purpose
- How SpaceX's Crew Dragon launch abort test today works in 10 not-so-easy steps
- The Spitzer Space Telescope will shut down Jan. 30. NASA celebrates its legacy this week.
- January 18
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- SpaceX delays Crew Dragon abort test launch to Sunday due to bad weather
- Meet Mal Reynolds' mom in 'Firefly: The Outlaw Ma Reynolds' (preview)
- 'Firefly: The Unification War Vol. 2' reveals Mal Reynolds' military past
- 'Star Trek: Picard' world premiere draws huge crowds and sci-fi stars
- Elon Musk is still thinking big with SpaceX's Starship Mars-colonizing rocket. Really big.
- How to watch SpaceX's Crew Dragon abort test live online this Sunday
- January 17
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- SpaceX, NASA 'go' for major Crew Dragon launch escape test Saturday
- High school student discovers alien planet with twin suns just days into a NASA internship
- How the tiny exoplanet-hunting ASTERIA satellite showed scientists what cubesats can do
- SpaceX is about to destroy a rocket in a critical Crew Dragon test flight. Here's why.
- Violent solar storms are happening closer to Earth than anyone thought was possible
- What will NASA's Mars 2020 rover be called? There's 155 names on the shortlist.
- Milky Way's cannibalistic past illuminated by ancient star's life story
- Stealth space startup SpinLaunch snares another $35 million from investors
- January 16
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- Astronaut joins Olay's star-studded Super Bowl ad to 'make space for women'
- NASA astronaut Christina Koch celebrates her 300th day in space
- In photos: Ariane 5 rocket lofts 2 satellites into orbit for Eutelsat, India
- Ariane 5 rocket launches communications satellites for India, Eutelsat into orbit
- Huge Philippines volcano eruption blasts ash 9 miles up as satellites watch (video)
- This super-sharp image could help explain the Milky Way's strange creamy center
- An Ariane 5 rocket will launch 2 communications satellites today. How to watch live
- Astronauts and addiction: Ending the stigma (op-ed)
- China lofts 4 satellites into orbit with its second launch of 2020
- 2019 was the second hottest year on record, NASA says
- Sierra Nevada eyes 2021 launch of Dream Chaser space plane
- Controversy over giant telescope roils astronomy conference in Hawaii
- Moon 'shrooms? Fungi eyed to help build lunar bases and Mars outposts
- Why are black holes just 'wandering' on the outskirts of their dwarf galaxies?
- January 15
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- New Boeing video shows Snoopy's ride on Starliner Orbital Flight Test
- Tour the colorful Crab Nebula with this stunning new 3D visualization
- Astronauts upgrade space station batteries in second all-woman spacewalk
- The black hole at the center of the galaxy is forging a strange new kind of star
- Scientists study plasma 'bubbles' in Earth's magnetic field with Gamera model named for Japanese monster
- Astronomers just tracked the interstellar journey of one of life's building blocks through space
- Proxima Centauri, the sun's nearest neighbor, may host a 2nd alien planet. Meet Proxima c.
- Could invisible aliens really exist among us? An astrobiologist explains
- Giant 'Rubin's Galaxy' stars in stunning Hubble photo named for dark matter pioneer
- Bright star Betelgeuse might be harboring a deep, dark secret
- Australia's Deadly Wildfires in Photos: The View from Space
- 2 potentially habitable 'Super-Earths' and a record-setting 'Cold Neptune' found in exoplanet haul
- NASA astronauts are taking the second all-woman spacewalk today. Watch it live!
- Astronauts spot smoke from growing Australian wildfires from space
- Huge eruption of Philippines volcano seen from space
- January 14
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- SpaceX's Crew Dragon faces critical test for future astronaut flights Saturday
- In photos: The amazing spacewalks of Expedition 61
- Top-secret UFO files could 'gravely damage' US national security if released, Navy says
- Why string theory persists — despite the knotty physics
- Lego Education launches Spike Prime to teach engineering and robotics to kids
- First new sunspots in 40 days herald coming solar cycle
- Billionaire hosts girlfriend contest for 'first woman to the moon' and (shocker) people hate it
- Jupiter may not have caused our solar system's 'Great Divide' after all
- This newly discovered asteroid is the second-closest natural object to the sun
- January 13
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- Earthquakes in Puerto Rico have changed the landscape. Satellites can see it from space.
- 7 billion-year-old stardust is oldest material found on Earth
- 'Ad Astra' and 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' land Oscar nominations
- The first cookies baked in space are back on Earth!
- An Earth-size planet in the habitable zone? New NASA discovery is one special world.
- A Mars sample-return mission is coming. Scientists want the public to know what to expect.
- The problems with modern physics
- January 12
- January 11
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- Amazing photos: The Wolf Moon lunar eclipse of January 2020 in pictures
- RIP Neil Peart: See you 'wheeling through the galaxies'
- Our galaxy has thousands of alien stars that didn't come from the Milky Way
- Galaxy group 13 billion light-years away could be ending the cosmic 'Dark Ages' before our eyes
- China kicks off 2020 with mystery satellite launch: report
- One of NASA's new 'Turtle' astronauts may walk on the moon ... or even Mars
- January 10
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- Wolf Moon lunar eclipse kicks off penumbral quartet for 2020 (photos)
- Watch SpaceX's Elon Musk show off his dance moves at Tesla Shanghai (video)
- Satellites show devastating toll of Australian wildfires on wildlife and human populations
- Iran plane crash wreckage spotted from space (satellite photos)
- NASA graduates new class of astronauts to join Artemis-era missions
- The Wolf Moon Lunar Eclipse of 2020 Occurs Today: How to Watch Online
- Ancient North Star Thuban Eclipses Its Stellar Companion (Video)
- Dark Matter Can Form Tiny, Cold 'Clumps.' Scientists Have Found the Smallest Ones Yet.
- Why SpaceX's Starlink satellites caught astronomers off guard
- January 9
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- NASA's Astronaut Class for the 'Artemis' Age Graduates Friday. How to Watch Live.
- Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Occurs Friday: Here's What to Expect
- No One Can Agree How Fast Universe Is Expanding. New Measure Makes Things Worse.
- Puerto Rico's Iconic Arecibo Observatory Closed by Major Earthquake
- Mars Loses Its Water Even Faster Than Anyone Thought
- Has Dark Energy Been Debunked? Probably Not.
- Virgin Galactic's Next SpaceShipTwo Notches Key 'Weight on Wheels' Milestone (Photos, Video)
- NASA's 1st SLS Megarocket Core Loaded Onto Barge Ahead of Key Engine Test
- January 8
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- Jets Blast Out of Famous Black Hole at 99% the Speed of Light
- In Photos: SpaceX Launches Third Batch of 60 Starlink Satellites to Orbit
- Satellite Spots Iran Missile Attack Aftermath from Space
- New Decade, New Cosmic Priorities: Astrophysicists Want Big Science Goals for Astro2020
- Mysterious 'Wave' of Star-Forming Gas May Be the Largest Structure in the Galaxy
- 800,000 Years Ago, a Meteor Slammed Into Earth. Scientists Just Found the Crater.
- Beam Rider: New 'Self-Centering' Laser Sail Could Enable Interstellar Travel
- Space Station May Have Many Commercial Suitors in Its Final Years
- NASA Preps Core Stage of Massive Space Launch System Megarocket for Big Test
- Origin of Deep-Space Radio Flash Discovered, and It's Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Ever Seen
- Blue Origin Opens New Headquarters As It Aims For The Moon, Astronaut Flights
- NASA Mulls Next Steps for Boeing's Starliner Astronaut Taxi After Shortened Test Flight
- All-Female Crew Sets Off for Novel 'Mars' Mission
- How to turn off web notifications for Google Chrome and macOS
- January 7
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- It's Official: Vera Rubin Observatory Named to Honor Dark Matter Scientist
- How NASA's Webb Telescope Will Search for Oxygen on Alien Worlds
- Crucial Safety Test of SpaceX's Crew Dragon Capsule Delayed to Jan. 18
- In Australia, Rain Falls, But Wildfires Expected to Intensify, NASA Says
- SpaceX Dragon Returns to Earth After Delivering NASA Supplies to Space Station
- SpaceX Just Launched a Fleet of Starlink Satellites. Here's How to Spot Them in the Sky.
- The Universe May Be Flooded with a Cobweb Network of Invisible Strings
- Cosmic Rays Are Starting to Tear a Milky Way Satellite Galaxy Apart
- SpaceX Launches 60 Starlink Satellites, Nails Rocket Landing in Record-Breaking Flight
- NASA's TESS Planet Hunter Finds Its 1st Earth-Size World in 'Habitable Zone'
- Gravitational-Wave Discovery Reveals Spectacular Crash of Neutron Stars, the 2nd Known
- January 6
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- Astronauts Spot Australia's Deadly Wildfires from Space Station as Satellites Keep Watch
- NASA Loses Contact with Tiny Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite
- You Can Watch a SpaceX Dragon Cargo Ship Return to Earth Tuesday. Here's How.
- SpaceX Will Launch 60 Starlink Satellites into Orbit Tonight. Here's How to Watch It Live.
- 'Pin'-nacle Achievement: The Story Behind NASA's Astronaut Pin
- The Hubble Telescope Turns 30 This Year. Here's How Astronomers Will Celebrate.
- James Webb Space Telescope on Track for March 2021 Launch, NASA Says
- Firefly Aerospace Preps for Debut Flight of Its Alpha Rocket in April
- January 5
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- January 3
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- On Far Side of the Moon, Chinese Lander and Rover Hit One-Year Mark
- An Astronaut Got a Blood Clot in Space. Here's How Doctors on Earth Fixed It.
- Satellite Images Show Australia's Devastating Wildfires from Space
- The 2020 Quadrantid Meteor Shower Peaks Soon. Here's What to Expect.
- There May Be Active Volcanoes on Venus: New Evidence
- How Amazon (and Jeff Bezos) Saved 'The Expanse'
- Will Bright Star Betelgeuse Finally Explode? A Look at the Dimming Red Giant in Orion's Shoulder
- The Decade of Mars: How the 2020s May Be a New Era of Red Planet Exploration
- NASA's New Mars 2020 Car May Look Like the Curiosity Rover, But It's No Twin
- January 2
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- Satellite Spots Iraqi Protests at US Embassy from Space (Photos)
- India Is Officially Going Back to the Moon with Chandrayaan-3 Lunar Lander
- Record-Breaking NASA Astronaut Welcomes Decade of Artemis with Stunning Moonrise Photo
- Nobel Prize Winners Talk Secrets of the Universe with Astronauts in Space
- Hubble Space Telescope May Star on 2020 American Innovation Coin
- There's a Giant Mystery Hiding Inside Every Atom in the Universe
- There's Water on Alien Planets, Just Not As Much as Scientists Thought: Study
- January 1
