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- April 30
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- Google Doodle Honors 'Prince of Mathematicians,' Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
- The 'Attoclock' Shows How Fast Electrons Move in a Millionth of a Billionth of a Second
- These 'Spooky' Entangled Atoms Just Brought Quantum Computing One Step Closer
- Year to Abort: NASA Preps Orion Capsule for 2019 Ascent Abort-2 Test
- Astronauts Explain How Space Colonists Could Survive on Another 'Strange Rock'
- Captured! Radio Telescope Records a Rare 'Glitch' in a Pulsar's Pulsing Beat
- We Could Find Aliens by Spotting Their Satellites
- How Would Humanity React If We Really Found Aliens?
- April 29
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- April 27
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- 'Everyday Astronaut' Series Brings Space Adventure to Facebook Watch
- Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to Launch Its 1st Rocket Test of 2018 Sunday
- How Astronauts' CPR Training Could Save Lives on Earth (Op-Ed)
- NASA Will Pay More for Less ISS Cargo Under New Commercial Contracts
- Swiss Scientists Perform Massive Test of 80-Year-Old, 'Spooky' Quantum Paradox
- Small Stars are Awesome — But Can They Support Life?
- Shadow the Crew of a Mars Simulation with 'The Habitat' Podcast
- 'AMC Visionaries: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction' Invades TV Monday
- Softer Side of Space Science: Cotton Experiments Will Head to Orbit
- Icy Mars Crater Shines in European Probe's 1st Photo from New Orbit
- 'White Holes' May Be the Secret Ingredient in Mysterious Dark Matter
- April 26
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- China Launches 5 Commercial Remote-Sensing Satellites Into Orbit
- House Passes Commercial Space Regulatory Bill
- NASA Pushes for Moon, Deep Space with Crucial Tests
- Pink Clouds Adorn Crescent Moon in Gorgeous Photo
- What If Earth Started Spinning Backward?
- Scientists Peer Across the Universe and Find an Ancient Galactic Collision
- New Star Wars Animated Series Centered on Resistance Pilots Coming This Fall
- Master Replicas Group Taps NASA Data to Shape 'Space Terrains'
- Full Moon Glows in a Blood-Red Puddle in 'Martian' Landscape
- Saturn's Multicolored Rings Dazzle in Photo by Cassini Spacecraft
- Bam! Cannon Experiment Shows How Asteroids Delivered Water to Earth
- April 25
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- Review: 'Avengers: Infinity War'
- We'll Never Know For Sure How Everything Began
- Amazing Saturn Photos From NASA's Cassini Orbiter
- Photos: Saturn's Glorious Rings Up Close
- When an English Lit Major Tried to School Isaac Asimov
- Liftoff! Europe's Newest 'Sentinel' Satellite Will Study Earth's Seas, Land and Air
- Laser Blasts Simulate Crushing Pressure in a Super-Earth's Core
- This 3D Color Map of 1.7 Billion Stars in the Milky Way Is the Best Ever Made
- How Would We Know If Intelligent Life Existed on Earth Before Humans?
- This Planet Is So Dark, Scientists Have to Guess What It Looks Like
- The Truth Behind This Amazing Video from the Surface of a Comet
- Asteroid Miners' Arkyd-6 Satellite Aces Big Test in Space
- 'A is for Astronaut' Is a Fun Space Book for All Ages (and It's Written by an Astronaut!)
- Jupiter's Great Red Spot Swirls in Stunning Up-Close Photo by Juno Probe
- April 24
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- You 'Knead' to See Garlic Bread Fly into the Stratosphere, Then Get Eaten! (Video)
- Astronaut Chris Hadfield Teaches Spaceflight Essentials in New MasterClass Series
- A Google Street View Car Drove Right Through the Path of the 2017 Solar Eclipse
- Stephen Hawking Signed This Book Before His ALS Took Over. Now It's Up for Auction.
- NASA Doesn't Know What Poked These Holes in the Arctic's Sea Ice
- Dark Photons Probably Don't Exist, and If They Did, They'd Be Super Weird
- This Ice Is Nearly As Hot As the Sun. Scientists Have Now Made It on Earth.
- Planets Aplenty with the TESS Mission: Q&A with the Director of the Kavli Institute
- Twin-Star Systems May Give Their 'Tatooine' Planets the Boot (Here's Why)
- April 23
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- Space Industry Expresses Support for Bridenstine's Confirmation as NASA Chief
- Blue Origin Expects BE-4 Rocket Engine Qualification Tests to Be Done This Year
- See Thousands of Asteroids Swirl Around the Sun in This NASA Video
- New NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine Officially Sworn In After Long Nomination Fight
- A Bunch of Rich Guys Want to Watch the Earth at All Times from Space
- Astronaut Hall of Fame Adds Space Shuttle Commander and Spacewalker
- Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs
- The 'End of the World' Is Today. Here's Why We're Still Here.
- Death Drives the Evolution of Life on 'One Strange Rock'
- Taco Bell Space Station? It's Possible, Experts Say
- No Way Out? Aliens on 'Super-Earth' Planets May Be Trapped by Gravity
- April 22
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- April 20
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- Netflix Doc 'Mercury 13' Chronicles First US Women Tested for Spaceflight
- US Military's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Spotted by Satellite Trackers
- Elon Musk Says 'Humans Are Underrated'
- Bankrupt Spaceflight Company's Space Plane Assets to Help Young Minds Soar
- Ex-Space Plane: Inside the Hangar at Bankrupt XCOR Aerospace (Photos)
- New NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine Faces 'Uphill Climb' After Contentious Confirmation
- Lagoon Nebula Dazzles in Hubble Telescope's 28th-Birthday Photos
- To Seek Out New Life: How the TESS Mission Will Accelerate the Hunt for Livable Alien Worlds (Kavli Roundtable)
- Lyrid Meteor Shower 2018 Peaks This Weekend: What to Expect
- April 19
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- Why This New Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope Blows Kepler Out of the Water
- 'Ready Player One' Has an Important Message About Not Just Virtual Reality, But Reality Itself
- Tour the Space Station in VR with This Amazing 3D, 360-Degree Video
- Senate Votes to Confirm Bridenstine as NASA Administrator
- Australians Will Attempt to Break Stargazing Guiness World Record
- Saturn May Be the Missing Piece in the Puzzle of Jupiter's Moons
- What's Next for NASA's TESS Exoplanet Hunter?
- Stunning Video Offers a Quick Tour of the Crab Nebula
- 'Flames in Space' Might Help Clean Earth's Air (Video)
- April 18
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- NASA's TESS Satellite Launches to Seek Out New Alien Worlds
- This Earth-i Small Satellite's 1st Color Video of Earth from Space Is Amazing
- Giant Impact May Have Created Mars' Moons
- Dazzling Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend!
- FCC Issues Warning in Wake of Swarm's Unauthorized Launch
- Debris-Dodging Spacecraft Could Use Bitcoin-Like Technology
- This Gorgeous Video Helps Explain Why NASA Is Studying Cosmic Shock Waves
- Commerce Department Ready to Add Space Traffic Management to Growing Space Role
- Diamonds in Meteorite May Hail from Our Ancient Solar System
- Senate Moving Towards Vote on Bridenstine Nomination
- SpaceX to Launch NASA's Exoplanet-Hunting Spacecraft Today: How to Watch Live
- April 17
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- NASA Scientists Traverse Antarctica to Prep for New Climate Satellite (Video)
- SpaceX Will Build Its Next-Gen Mars Rocket in Los Angeles
- Meet OmegA: Orbital ATK Unveils Name, Upper Stage Pick for Next-Gen Rocket
- Researchers Propose Mission to Intercept the Next Interstellar Asteroid
- Scientists and Entrepreneurs Lobby for NASA Lunar Program
- Environmental Group Plans Satellite to Track Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- The Most Amazing Lyrid Meteor Shower Photos of All Time
- First Days on Mars: Excerpt from "Before Mars" by Emma Newman
- The Red Planet Can't Be Trusted in "Before Mars": Q&A with the Author
- NASA May Extend Space Station Missions to Address Potential Commercial Crew Delays
- NASA's Got a Plan for a 'Galactic Positioning System' to Save Astronauts Lost in Space
- Astronaut Says It 'Smells Great' Inside the International Space Station (Video)
- April 16
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- National Space Council Will Deliver Space-Junk Plan to Trump, VP Pence Says
- On 'One Strange Rock,' Former Astronaut Mae Jemison Delves into Life's Origins
- Launch of NASA's TESS Exoplanet Hunter Delayed by Rocket Issue
- Gateway to the... Moon: Apollo 11 Capsule Lands on Display in St. Louis
- Goodbye, Kepler, Hello TESS: Passing the Baton in the Search for Distant Planets
- Exoplanet Exploration: The Search Continues for New, Exciting Worlds
- 'Tunguska'-Size Asteroid Makes Surprise Flyby of Earth
- The Astrobiology Magazine Guide to TESS
- Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Try to Land a Rocket with a 'Giant Party Balloon'
- Han & Chewie Banter Highlight New 1 Min Solo 'New Look'
- A City-Size 'Telescope' Could Watch Space-Time Ripple 1 Million Times a Year
- Why We Might Miss Extraterrestrial Life Even If It's Staring Us in the Face
- This Quantum Random Number Generator Can Never Be Hacked
- Life on Venus? Why It's Not an Absurd Thought
- SpaceX Rocket Launching NASA's TESS Exoplanet Hunter Today: Watch Live
- April 15
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- All Systems 'Go' For Launch of NASA Exoplanet Mission Monday
- NASA's TESS Satellite Will Supercharge Search for Nearby, Earth-Like Worlds
- Wait For It...The First 'April 23rd Doomsday' Was Predicted in 1843
- Space Ventures Raise Nearly $1 Billion in First Quarter of 2018, Led by SpaceX
- Atlas V Rocket Launches US Military Satellite and Experimental Spacecraft Into Orbit
- April 14
- April 13
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- Oceans' Mysterious Magnetic Field Is Mapped in Stunning Detail from Space
- SpaceX Rocket Is Ready to Launch NASA's Next Planet-Hunting Telescope
- NASA Studying Sensor Issue with Parker Solar Probe
- SpaceX Proposes to Conduct Dragon Splashdowns in Gulf of Mexico
- Northeast Astronomy Forum 2018 Invites Space Fans to 'Ultimate Experience'
- Landmarks on Pluto's Moon Charon Get Their First Official Names
- Gritty Survival Marks Debut of New 'Lost in Space' on Netflix
- One 'Strange' Instagram Live: Will Smith Has a Few Quirky Questions for a Space Station Astronaut
- India Just Launched a Navigation Satellite (While Trying to Save Another One)
- April 12
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- Lego's Bat-Space Shuttle Is a Fun Way to Mark NASA's STS-1 Anniversary
- Playful Genius: Tribute Recalls Stephen Hawking's Lighter Side
- No, the Rapture Isn't Coming on April 23 Because of Nibiru (Which Doesn't Exist)
- Skywatching in Spring 2018: Celestial Events Caught on Camera
- Space Math Heroes of 'Hidden Figures' Inspire Nat Geo Drama Series
- Soar Over Jupiter's Monster Polar Storms with This Stunning NASA Video
- Judge Finds Apollo Astronaut Can Sue Over Marketing of Replica Moon Watch
- In Photos: India's GSLV Rocket Launches GSAT-6A Communications Satellite
- 'Superflares' May Make It Hard for Life to Thrive on Earth's Nearest Exoplanet
- New Planets May Be Forming Around Young Nearby Stars, Dusty Disks Suggest
- Gravity Assist Podcast: The Sun, with Nicky Fox
- 'Yuri's Night' 2018 Space Party Blasts Off Tonight to Mark 1st Human Spaceflight
- April 11
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- Guardians of the Galaxy Find 'Handsome, Muscular' Thor in New ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Footage
- Training for Mars: An Excerpt from Space Thriller "One Way"
- Huge Solar 'Tornadoes' Don't Spin After All, Study Shows
- Cosmic Bling! Colorful Nebulas Decorate Orion's Belt in Stargazer Photo
- Why NASA Is Sending a Spacecraft to a Metal Asteroid Called 'Psyche'
- This NASA Video Tour of the Moon in 4K Is Simply Breathtaking
- A Luxury Hotel in Space? Aurora Station Promises VR and Wi-Fi, If It Gets Off Earth
- 'The Expanse' Season 3 Premieres Tonight! What to Expect
- Weird Neutrinos Can't Quite Explain Matter's Huge Riddle Yet
- There's a Lot of Sperm on the International Space Station Right Now
- NASA Chooses Its Next Chief Scientist: Jim Green
- April 10
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- Greenland Has a Mysterious 'Dark Zone' — And It's Getting Even Darker
- If 'Oumuamua Is an Alien Spacecraft, It's Keeping Quiet So Far
- Saturn Moon Dione Toes the Line in Stunning NASA Photo
- Air Force Wants Help to Operate and Maintain Space Surveillance Telescopes
- NASA Studies Extending Boeing Commercial Crew Test Flight to Support ISS
- NASA Begins Building Next Mars Rover for 2020 Launch
- In New Space Thriller 'One Way,' a Mars Colony Turns Deadly: Q&A with the Author
- Touring the Galactic 'Zoo' This Spring, Using Mobile Apps
- 'Inhumans' Star Boards 'Star Trek: Discovery' as the Enterprise's Captain Pike
- 'Hole' in the Sun Spawns Powerful Solar Wind; Could Amp Up Auroras
- Ellen Stofan, Former NASA Chief Scientist, to Head National Air and Space Museum
- Inside the Clean Room with NASA's TESS Exoplanet Hunter (Images)
- Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space
- About 17,000 Big Near-Earth Asteroids Remain Undetected: How NASA Could Spot Them
- Take a Symphonic Journey into a Black Hole with 'Metacosmos'
- SpaceX Not to Blame for Zuma Spy-Satellite Launch Failure: Report
- April 9
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- New NASA Planet Hunter Is Launching One Week from Today
- Early Life Had Evolutionary Power to Survive Radical Changes in Environment
- Astronauts Become Billiard Balls to Demonstrate Newton's Third Law (Video)
- Elon Musk Shows Off 'Tool' for Mars-Colonizing Spaceship (Photo)
- This Newfound Stellar Remnant Is the First of Its Kind: Why It's So Special
- The Story Claiming Buzz Aldrin Saw Aliens in Space Is Utter Nonsense
- Han Solo's 'Got a Good Feeling About This' New 'Star Wars Story' Trailer
- 'E' is for Apollo: 'STEM Education' Stamps Use Spacecraft to Illustrate Engineering
- Earth's Shields Protect Life from the Sun on 'One Strange Rock'
- Why Extraterrestrial Life May Be More Unlikely Than Scientists Thought
- Is Dark Matter Made Up of Mini Black Holes from the Big Bang?
- Could Isaac Asimov's Planet Where Nightfall Almost Never Comes Really Exist?
- April 8
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- April 6
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- A Space Hotel in Images: Orion Span's Luxury Aurora Station
- Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Wings Past 200 Days in Orbit
- This Space Junk Removal Experiment Will Harpoon & Net Debris in Orbit
- NASA's TESS Exoplanet-Hunting Mission in Pictures
- In 'Rocket Men,' Robert Kurson Retells 'Greatest Space Story Ever Told'
- 'Traffic Jam' from Collapsing Ring May Have Carved Saturn Moon
- This Is (Probably) the Only Way Dark Matter Interacts with Ordinary Matter
- The Most Precise Measurement of Antimatter Yet Deepens the Mystery of Why We Exist
- Meet the Higgs Bubble That Will Destroy the Universe. Maybe.
- Volcanoes, Swamps and the South Pole: NASA Scientists Take Research to Extremes
- Watch Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity Soar on 1st Powered Flight (Video)
- April 5
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- European Rocket Lofts Communications Satellites in 1st Launch Since Glitch
- Rocket Lab Sets Date for First Commercial Launch
- Cosmic 'Yardstick' Measures Distance to One of Universe's Oldest Objects
- The Chinese Space Station Narrowly Missed Landing in the World's Largest 'Spacecraft Cemetery'
- European Rocket to Launch Satellites for Japan, UK Today: Watch Live
- Virgin Galactic Completes 1st Powered Test Flight Since Fatal 2014 Crash
- X Prize Is Relaunching a Private Moon Race Without Google (or a Prize)
- NOAA Explains Restrictions on SpaceX Launch Webcast
- 'Luxury Space Hotel' to Launch in 2021
- NASA Has a Plan to Put Robot Bees on Mars
- Could Boeing's 'Starliner' Spacecraft Be a Next Step for Reaching the Moon and Beyond?
- 2 Satellites Will Probe Earth's Massive Ice Sheets (Video)
- Europa Lander Concept Redesigned to Lower Cost and Complexity
- World View Raises $26.5 Million for Near-Space Balloon Systems
- NASA Weighs Changes to Space Technology Programs and Organizations
- Alien Atmospheres Cooked Up in Lab May Aid Exoplanet Search
- Scientists Spot the Ghostly Aurora Footprint of Jupiter's Moon Callisto
- A Dark Version of 'Lost in Space' Is Coming to Netflix This Month
- April 4
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- 3D Map Dices Space-Time to Reveal Thousands of Early Galaxies
- New AI Program Classifies Planets and Predicts Probability of Life
- Could Life Exist in the Clouds of Venus?
- Vast Black Hole Swarm May Surround Milky Way's Heart
- Boeing Ops Team Reveals Mission Patch for Starliner Orbital Test Flight
- Blue Origin Switches Engines for New Glenn Second Stage
- SpaceX and Boeing Test Parachutes for Future Astronaut Space Taxis
- 72 Mysterious Cosmic Flashes Puzzle Astronomers
- Black Holes in Galactic Bellies May Launch More Gravitational Waves
- The Milky Way Galaxy Is Growing Faster Than the Speed of Sound
- In Photos: NASA's Parker Solar Probe in the Clean Room
- So Hot, It's Cool: Record-Breaking Sun Probe Nearly Ready for Launch
- SpaceX Cargo Capsule Arrives at Space Station with Tons of Supplies
- April 3
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- Blue 'Sap Moon' Shines Bright in Stunning Skywatcher Photos
- In Photos: The Last 'Blue Moon' of 2018
- WFIRST Work Continues Despite Budget and Schedule Uncertainty
- X-Rays Could Spell Doom for Life on Planets Around Red Dwarfs
- NASA Hires Lockheed Martin to Build Quiet Supersonic X-Plane
- '2001: A Space Odyssey' Turns 50: Why Haven't Humans Been to Jupiter Yet?
- '2001 A Space Odyssey' 50 Years On: Q&A with Computer Scientist Stephen Wolfram
- Space Image of the Day Gallery (February 2018)
- Space Image of the Day Gallery (January 2018)
- India Loses Contact with New Communications Satellite Just Days After Launch
- Stephen Hawking Mourned by Hundreds at Cambridge Funeral
- Shape-Shifting Robots on Titan and 24 Other Wild Tech Ideas Have Caught NASA's Eye
- Dangling on a Wire: A Tale from the Making Of '2001: A Space Odyssey'
- Gallery: Making of '2001: A Space Odyssey'
- '2001: A Space Odyssey' Creation and Legacy Probed in 50th-Anniversary Book
- April 2
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- After Tiangong-1, What Are the Next Big Pieces of Space Junk to Crash to Earth?
- Mission Ctrl-P: HP Launches New Zero-G Printer for the Space Station
- Used SpaceX Dragon Launches NASA Cargo to Space Station on Pre-flown Rocket
- Rare Cosmic Alignment Reveals Most Distant Star Ever Seen
- SpaceX Is About to Send Tons of Science to Space (and Bring a Robot Home)
- How Was China's Tiangong-1 Space Station Crash Tracked So Accurately?
- SpaceX Cargo Mission Launches to the Space Station Today: Watch It Live
- Kids Have a Blast Exploring Space in 'Ready Jet Go!' Season 2
- Boom! Cosmic Collisions Give Earth Life on 'One Strange Rock'
- Meteor and Jupiter Light Up the Night Sky Over a Glistening Lagoon (Photo)
- Farewell, Tiangong-1: Chinese Space Station Meets Fiery Doom Over South Pacific
- Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 Falling to Earth Now, But Where?
- April 1
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- Chinese Space Station's Crash to Earth: Everything You Need to Know
- Where Will Debris from China's Falling Space Station Land? Here's the Latest Update
- Falling Chinese Space Station Spotted by Skywatcher on Eve of Crash
- Omnibus Spending Bill Funds Big-Ticket Military Communications Satellites That DoD Did Not Request
- NASA Rocket Launches Supersonic Mars Parachute in Key Test
