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- March 31
- March 30
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- What's the Deal with SpaceX, NOAA and Live Rocket Launch Video?
- 'Marsquakes' May Reveal Clues About How the Red Planet Formed
- This Smart Telescope for Newbies Looks Like a Sci-Fi Space Robot
- March's Blue 'Sap' Moon Stars in Slooh Webcast Saturday! Here's How to Watch
- Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 May Fall to Earth Later Than Expected
- Liftoff! Used SpaceX Rocket Launches 10 Iridium Satellites into Orbit
- 60 Years in Orbit for 'Grapefruit Satellite': The Oldest Human Object in Space
- Saturday's Blue Moon Is Also a Paschal Moon for Easter. Here's Why
- Watch SpaceX Launch 10 Satellites on a Used Rocket Today!
- 2 Pilots in Different Planes Saw the Same 'UFO.' The FAA Can't Explain It.
- Discover the Science of 'Star Wars' and 'Black Panther' at Future Con
- Crashing Chinese Space Station Will Go Down Shooting — Fireballs
- March 29
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- NASA's Next Mars Lander Will Look Deep to Understand the Red Planet — and Earth
- Chinese Space Station Is Tumbling Toward an Easter Sunday Crash
- NASA Astronauts Ace 100th Spacewalk by Space Station Expedition Crews
- Newfound Alien Planet is a Metal-Heavy Cannonball
- Hubble Telescope Captures Cosmic 'Tug-of-War' Between Galaxies
- Gravity Assist: An Interview with NASA's Jim Green
- China's Falling Space Station Highlights the Problem of Space Junk Crashing to Earth
- Chinese Space Station Crash: Why It's So Hard to Predict Where Space Debris Will Land
- Watch NASA's Mars InSight Lander Arrive at Its California Launch Site
- Saturday's Blue Moon Is the Last One Until 2020 (Don't Miss It!)
- Astronauts Are Taking a Spacewalk Today: Watch It Live
- March 28
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- NASA's Next Planet Hunter Will Launch a 'New Era of Exoplanet Research'
- Telescope Spots Doomed Chinese Space Station (Photo)
- These Scientists Have a Wild Plan to Throw Salt into the Atmosphere. Here's Why.
- The Robots in 'Pacific Rim Uprising' Could Use a Lesson from Real-Life Science
- Earth Likely Had Water Before Moon-Forming Smashup
- Defying Theories, This Ghostly Galaxy Has Almost No Dark Matter
- 321 Launch App Brings Live Rocket Experience to Mobile Devices
- Undergrad Science Experiments Launch on a NASA Sounding Rocket
- Colorful Milky Way Twinkles Over Acid Water in Stunning Night-Sky Photo
- 'Spaceport Earth': Journey to the World's Launchpads in New Book
- Exploring the Apollo Moon Missions Using Mobile Apps
- Mars Colony Would Be a Hedge Against World War III, Elon Musk Says
- China Space Station Crash: What Are the Odds a Piece Will Hit You?
- Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua Never Should Have Left Home, Theories Say
- Watch China's Tiangong-1 Space Station in Real Time As It Nears Its Demise
- March 27
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- Venus and Uranus Get Close in Wednesday's Sky
- China's Doomed Space Station Did Some Science Work, Too
- This New Detector Technology Aims to 'Scintillate' Elusive Dark Matter Particles
- Here's How to See the Chinese Space Station's Final Orbits and Fiery Fall
- What Will Happen to China's Tiangong-1 As It Falls Through the Atmosphere?
- What Should You Do If You Find a Piece of China's Crashed Space Station?
- Gravity Assist Podcast: Explorer 1 and Jim Green's 'Gravity Assist'
- 'Mars Ain't Gonna Be Easy': What Apollo 17 Leaders Are Saying About Future Space Exploration
- NASA Delays Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Until 2020
- White House: Protect Apollo Moon Landing Sites, But Treaties Could Lead to Backlash
- What Will NASA Say About the James Webb Space Telescope Today at 11:30 am ET?
- You Could Soon Buy an 'Artificial Meteor Shower' — for a Hefty Fee
- New Image Shows How the Sun Changes Over a 22-Year Cycle
- Chinese Space Station May Crash Like NASA's Skylab
- China's Out-Of-Control Space Station Is Nowhere Near the Biggest Thing to Fall From Space
- In Photos: Tiangong-1, China's Space Station Fell to Earth
- Why Is China's Space Station Falling to Earth in the First Place?
- March 26
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- ESA to Study Links Between Space Debris Removal and Satellite Servicing
- How Much Space Junk Hits Earth?
- Zero 2 Infinity Gets 3D-Printed Engine Part for Bloostar Launch Vehicle
- Weirdly Dimmable 'Alien Megastar' Darkens Again
- The March of Women: A Giant Leap for Humanity (Op-Ed)
- See China's Falling Space Station in These Radar Images
- NASA Is Testing a Supersonic Mars Parachute Saturday: Watch It Live
- In Rare Supernova, Cocooned Star Dies Super-Rapid Death
- Astronauts Serve as Earth's Storytellers in National Geographic's 'One Strange Rock'
- Trump's New National Space Strategy emphasizes 'America First' Policies
- Flat-Earther Blasts Himself into the Sky on Homemade Rocket (and He Survives)
- Unlikely Duo Teams Up for 'One Strange Rock': Q&A with Chris Hadfield and Darren Aronofsky
- Does It Matter That NASA Still Doesn't Have a Permanent Leader?
- March 25
- March 24
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- NASA's Curiosity Rover Just Spent Its 2,000th Day on Mars!
- China's Space Station Will Fall to Earth, But When and Where? Here's the Latest
- Alaskan Spaceport to Host Secretive Commercial Launch Soon
- Stephen Hawking's Last Paper (Probably) Doesn't Prove We Live in a Multiverse
- Watch University Student Projects Launch on a NASA Rocket Early Sunday
- March 23
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- Elon Musk Deletes Facebook Pages for SpaceX and Tesla
- NASA Astronauts, Cosmonaut Arrive at Space Station After 2-Day Trip
- Smithsonian Channel Specials Tell Humanity's Story, from the Big Bang to Colonizing Space
- New NASA Model Could Help Predict Landslides (Video)
- Air-Breathing Thruster Paves Way for Never-Ending Space Missions at Earth and Mars
- US Can't Stop Hypersonic Weapons, Air Force General Says
- 'Pacific Rim Uprising' Unreels More Cool Giant Robots, But Also a Weak Plot
- NatGeo's 'One Strange Rock' Is the Story of Earth, Told by People Who Left It
- SpaceX Rocket Launch Created Shock Wave 4 Times Larger Than California
- Stars For Sale! But No, You Can't Really Buy an Official Star Name for Someone
- Creator of 'Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics' Wins Prestigious Math Prize
- March 22
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- Omega Reveals 'Dark Side of the Moon' Chronograph for Apollo 8 50th
- China's Tiangong-1 Space Lab Expected to Fall to Earth Over Easter Weekend
- NASA to Allow Nuclear Power Systems for Next Discovery Mission
- Is SpaceX Planning to Build Its BFR Mars Rocket in Los Angeles?
- US National Park Rangers Look to the Stars with Skywatching Training Program
- NASA Receives $20.7 Billion in Omnibus Appropriations Bill
- China's First Space Station Is Going to Fall Out of Space Very Soon
- Astronomer Announces He Has Discovered ... Mars
- Gemini 3 in Photos: The 1st Crewed Flight of NASA's 2-Person Spaceship
- In George R.R. Martin's 'Nightflyers' on Syfy, Space Looks Terrifying (Video)
- Tennis Star and Astronaut to Help Dedicate New Sally Ride Postage Stamp
- New LightSail 2 Spacecraft Will Boost Solar-Sailing Interplanetary Missions
- Gravity Assist Podcast: Science and Science Fiction with Andy Weir
- Astronaut Biography: Andrew J. Feustel
- March 21
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- High-Tech Harpoon Could Help Clean Up Space Junk
- Take an Amazing Solar System Tour with This Mobile Augmented-Reality App
- Saturn Moon Quadcopter, or Comet-Sample Return? Only 1 NASA Mission Will Be Picked
- Soyuz Rocket Launches US-Russian Crew to Space Station
- A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, and Early Humans Likely Saw It
- See the Spring Snowstorm Over the US Northeast in These Satellite Views
- Google Doodle Celebrates Mexican Astronomer Guillermo Haro
- Syfy's Superman Prequel 'Krypton' Launches Tonight (Review)
- Messier's List: Hubble Telescope's Stunning Views of Deep-Sky Objects
- Space Junk Could Be This Company's Treasure
- Watch Auroras Shimmer from Space in This Serene Satellite View
- European Space Agency Picks Exoplanet-Studying Spacecraft for 2028 Launch
- Veteran Crew Launches to the Space Station Today: Watch It Live
- March 20
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- Stephen Hawking to Be Interred in Westminster Abbey Near Newton, Darwin
- A Hungry Black Hole Devoured a Star, and Its 'Burp' Reveals How It Chowed Down
- Spring Will Light Up the Night Sky with Dazzling 1st-Magnitude Stars
- Vernal Equinox 2018: Satellite Sees First Day of Spring
- Exoplanet Search Turns Up 15 New Alien Worlds, and One May Have Water
- Hubble Expands Skywatching List for Messier Marathoners with New Photos
- Gravity Assist Podcast: The Kuiper Belt, with Alan Stern
- Wow! Watch the Northern Lights Over Sweden in This Spectacular Video
- Watch a Robot Solve a Rubik's Cube in 0.38 Seconds
- NASA's Broken Robonaut Will Head Back to Earth This Spring
- Apollo 11 Spacecraft Departing Houston for St. Louis on 'Destination Moon' Tour
- Stephen Hawking's Final Paper Proposes Way to Detect the 'Multiverse'
- March 19
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- 'Virtual Particles' Could Create Dark, Echoing Dead Stars
- I Went to Space and Floated Above Earth Thanks to This Immersive Helmet
- 1st Known Interstellar Visitor Gets Weirder: 'Oumuamua Likely Had 2 Stars
- Orbital ATK Unveils New Version of Satellite-Servicing Vehicle
- Ancient Oceans on Mars May Have Been Older and Shallower Than Thought
- China's Most Powerful Rocket to Return to Flight in November
- How Artists Turn Hubble's Space Discoveries into Gorgeous Stellar Images
- The Alien Planets of TRAPPIST-1 May Be Too Wet for Life
- Wandering Rogue Moons May Be As Common As Stars
- Deep-Space Radiation May Be Getting More Dangerous for Future Astronauts
- March 18
- March 17
- March 16
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- 'Star Wars' Droids Point the Way to NASA Repair Robots
- Qapla'! Speak Klingon Like a Warrior with Duolingo
- Thanos Stares Down Captain American in New 'Avengers: Infinity War' Trailer
- NASA's Prolific Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Is Running Out of Fuel
- Astronaut Scott Kelly and His Twin Brother Are Still Identical, NASA Says
- China Outlines Two-Phase Chang'e 4 Moon Lander Mission
- This Tiny Private CubeRover Could Reach the Moon by 2020
- Gemini 8: NASA's First Space Docking in Pictures
- Equinox: Why Spring Weather Can Keep Us Guessing
- Air Force Awards Big Launch Contracts to SpaceX and ULA
- Four Cubesats Snuck into Orbit Without Regulatory Approval, FCC Says
- NASA's Acting Chief Expects Few Agency Changes Despite Leadership Uncertainty
- March 15
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- Help NASA Study 'Steve,' a Newfound Aurora Type
- Water on Dwarf Planet Ceres Is Driving an Active Surface
- Spot a 'Cosmic Disco Ball' in the Predawn Sky This Week
- Earth Stars in Nat Geo Channel's 'One Strange Rock' Premiere (Astronauts, Too!)
- Stephen Hawking Never Answered His 'Most Interesting' Scientific Question
- How Stephen Hawking Transformed Our Understanding of Black Holes
- NASA Shapes Science Plan for Deep-Space Outpost Near the Moon
- Stephen Hawking Will Explore Humanity's Future in One of His Last Film Appearances
- Gravity Assist Podcast: Pluto, with Alan Stern
- March 14
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- NASA Honors Legacy of Stephen Hawking
- Bizarre Stunted Galaxy Found in Our Own Cosmic Backyard
- Celebrities Mourn Death of Stephen Hawking
- Stephen Hawking Never Reached Space, But He Sought to Lift All of Humanity
- 'He Inspired Us All to Wonder': Scientists and the Public Remember Stephen Hawking
- Best Pi Day Deals for Kids & DIYers
- Stephen Hawking: A Physics Icon Remembered in Photos
- Kerbal Space Program Adds Space Race Rockets in 'Making History' Game Add-On
- Meet 'Steve,' the Aurora-Like Mystery Scientists Are Beginning to Unravel
- Stephen Hawking's Most Intriguing Quotes on the Future of Humanity, Aliens and Women
- Stephen Hawking Remembered by Neil deGrasse Tyson and More on Twitter
- New Horizons, Meet Ultima Thule: Probe's Next Target Gets a Nickname
- To Nuke an Asteroid, How Powerful a Bomb Do You Need?
- Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Growing Taller As It Shrinks... and Turning Orange
- Stephen Hawking, Famed Physicist Who Defied ALS Odds, Dies at 76
- March 13
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- Trump Says US May Need a 'Space Force'
- Solar Storm to Amp Up Earth's Northern Lights Wednesday and Thursday
- Mysterious Milky Way Signal Comes from the Past, Not Dark Matter
- Celebrate Pi Day 2018 with NASA's Tasty 'Pi in the Sky' Math Challenge
- Gravity Assist Podcast: Uranus and Neptune, with Amy Simon
- Declassified Military Video Shows 'UFO' Off East Coast
- Quantum Physicists Doubled the Information Speed Limit of the Universe
- 4 Smithsonian Space Documentaries You Don't Want to Miss
- Jeff Bezos Wins Exploration Award, Eats Lizard Meat
- See How Massive Solar Eruptions Send Powerful Shock Waves Through Space
- Kirk or Picard? Jeff Bezos Picks His Favorite 'Star Trek' Captain
- March 12
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- NASA Acting Chief Robert Lightfoot Will Retire in April
- 'Searching for Skylab' Film Seeks to Return First US Space Station to Public View
- NASA Twins Study Verifies Long-Term Health Effects of Space Travel
- Saturn's Icy Moon Dione Shines in Stunning Cassini Photo
- Watch an Astronaut Test Newton's Second Law of Motion in Space
- 360-Degree View: In the Lab with NASA's InSight Mars Lander
- Relive the Historic SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch with 'Starman' in This Inspiring Video
- Elon Musk Talks SpaceX's BFR Rocket for Mars at SXSW
- Stellar Nursery Unites Star-Formation Theories
- Lunar Origin Story Could Support Wet-Moon Findings
- You Can Hunt for Alien Planets in Kepler Data Using Newly Released Google Code
- March 11
- March 10
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- 'Billions and Billions': Space Exploration is Not Just for Billionaires
- Yep, the Earth Is Still Round, Neil deGrasse Tyson Says
- Trump Praises Commercial Space Industry at Cabinet Meeting
- An Electro-Blob Under Africa May Be 'Ground Zero' for Earth's Magnetic Field Reversal
- Will the US Be Able to Stop Russia's New Arsenal of Missile Defense-Piercing Nukes?
- March 9
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- Brilliant Fireball Lights Up the Sky Over Washington
- Soyuz Rocket Launches 4 New O3b Communications Satellites Into Orbit
- Particle Zoo: Journey into the Weird Subatomic World
- 'A Wrinkle in Time' Offers Strong Performances and a Big Role for Science
- Jon Favreau to Produce, Write Live-Action 'Star Wars' TV Series
- NASA's Ailing Robonaut 2 Will Return from Space for Long-Overdue Repairs
- Want to 'Tesser'? Ironing Out 'Wrinkle in Time's' Wild Space-Travel Ideas
- 'HAMMER' Time? Spacecraft Could Nuke Dangerous Asteroid to Defend Earth
- Giant Alien Planet May Lurk Inside Star's Lopsided Dust Structure
- March 8
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- 'Mother of Hubble' Nancy Grace Roman Led the Way for Women in Astronomy
- 'Stargate Origins' Returns Tonight with 3 Final Episodes
- NASA Sees Strong International Interest in Lunar Exploration Plans
- Air Force Tries to Create a Warrior Culture in Space
- NASA No Longer Seeks to Build a Second Mobile Launcher for SLS Megarocket
- You Are Here: Earth Blazes Brightly in Photo from Kepler Planet-Hunting Spacecraft
- Biggest Black Holes May Grow Faster Than Host Galaxies
- What Happens When You Put Evolution on Replay?
- Gravity Assist Podcast: Saturn, with Linda Spilker
- Spaceflight Can Be a Real Pain for Astronauts
- This Satellite View of the Snowstorm Battering Northeastern US Is Just Mesmerizing
- What the Media Can Learn from Physics and Cosmology
- Google Wants to Make Military Spy Drones Even Smarter
- Planets Line Up This Week! See Jupiter, Mars, Saturn Together (Mercury and Venus, Too)
- March 7
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- This Stadium-Size Asteroid Just Zipped Safely by Earth (Video)
- The Milky Way Arches Over ESO's Very Large Telescope in Amazing Panorama
- Cutting NASA Science Missions 'Can Set a Dangerous Precedent,' Congressman Warns
- The 'Skyrmion' May Have Solved the Mystery of Ball Lightning
- The Chinese Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth, But It Probably Won't Hit You
- Inside 'Stargate: Origins': Go Behind the Scenes with These Exclusive Photos!
- Earth from Space: The Amazing Photos by the GOES-16 Satellite
- Weird Cyclones on Jupiter Form Geometric Shapes — But Why?
- Jupiter's Colorful Stripes Run Far Deeper Than Scientists Thought
- GOES-R/GOES-16: A Powerful Weather Satellite in Pictures
- Behemoth Snowstorm Watched by Satellites As It Hits US Northeast
- How a Robot Arm in Space Inspired Tech for Surgery on Earth
- Sand Dunes, Odd Rock Piles Spied by Mars Orbiter (Photo)
- March 6
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- William Shatner Wants You to Send Your Name to the Sun on NASA's Historic Solar Probe
- Barbie Models Doll After NASA 'Hidden Figure' Katherine Johnson
- Saturn and Its Rings Meet Sun Glare in Ethereal Cassini Photo
- Arianespace Delays Soyuz Rocket Launch to Friday for Extra Checks
- Neptune's Moon Triton and Star 'Flash' Earth During an Occultation
- Watch Netflix's 'Lost in Space' Full Trailer!
- No, Those Aren’t Animal Tracks on Mars
- Blue Origin's BE-4 Engine Tests Continue as ULA Waits on Vulcan Engine Decision
- Gravity Assist Podcast: Venus, with David Grinspoon
- 'Handyman of Proteins' Got Life on Earth Started
- Dying Star Reanimates Stellar Corpse
- Scorching Saturn-Size World Has 3 Times the Water of Ringed Planet
- SpaceX Launches Hispasat Satellite on Landmark 50th Falcon 9 Flight
- March 5
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- A 'Living Dead' Star That Could Shed Light on the Early Universe (Kavli Roundtable)
- DARPA Sees Clear Path to Faster Cheaper Space Technology
- SpaceX's Next Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Will Be an Epic Rideshare: Report
- This Weird Google Earth Picture Does Not Show a Crashed UFO
- SpaceX Roadster Could be Martian 'Biothreat'
- Canis Major Twinkles Over Enormous Deep-Space Telescope (Photo)
- 'So You Want to Go to Mars': Astronaut Peggy Whitson and Scientists Inspire NYC Kids
- Massive Space Structures Have Surprising Connection to Quantum Mechanics Math
- SpaceX to Launch Spanish Communications Satellite Early Tuesday: Watch It Live
- Milky Way Glimmers Over Montauk Lighthouse in Sparkling Beach View
- Should We Open Some Sealed Apollo Moon Samples?
- NASA Looking at Ways to Commercialize International Space Station
- March 4
- March 3
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- Apollo 9 in Photos: NASA Tests the Spidery Lunar Module
- Colorful Clouds Churn on Jupiter in Stunning NASA Juno Image
- How Much Trash Is on the Moon?
- 'Jews in Space' Exhibit Traces Jewish Culture Across the Cosmos
- Stephen Hawking Says He Knows What Happened Before the Big Bang
- Satellite View Shows 'Bomb Cyclone' Battering U.S. East Coast
- March 2
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- 'Elusive' Mercury Makes an Appearance This Month
- Could This Bold New Technique Boost Gravitational-Wave Detection?
- A Floating 'Brain' Will Assist Astronauts Aboard the Space Station
- China's Big Tiangong-1 Space Lab May Fall to Earth This Month
- 'Here We Are' Is a Baby's Primer on the Universe
- Circuit Cubes Add Motion to Your Space and 'Star Wars' Legos
- 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek': 2018 Toys, Collectibles and Apparel Preview
- European Spacecraft Catches Saturn Looming Behind Mars Moons (Photos, Video)
- New NASA Study Finds Dramatic Acceleration in Sea Level Rise
- 'Overview' Virtual-Reality Experience Lets You Explore the Cosmos
- NASA Mars Lander Arrives at Launch Site to Prep for May Liftoff
- March 1
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- Next-Generation Weather Satellite Launches to Track Extreme Storms
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Could Face More Delays and Cost Overruns, GAO Warns
- GOES-S: NOAA's Next-Gen Weather Satellite in Photos
- An Even-Weirder-Than-Usual Tardigrade Just Turned Up in a Parking Lot
- New US Postage Stamp for Astronaut Sally Ride Gets May 'Launch' Date
- This Star Shines with the Light of Millions of Suns!
- The Curiosity Rover Just Drilled into a Rock on Mars for 1st Time Since 2016
- Advanced GOES-S Weather Satellite Lifts Off Today: Watch the Launch Live
- Gravity Assist Podcast: Earth, with Tom Wagner
