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- June 30
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- US Space Force establishes new unit to track 'threats in orbit'
- Satellite snaps gorgeous 4K selfie over Great Barrier Reef (video)
- 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' at 40: Spielberg’s charming sci-fi classic still offers wonder today
- 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' episode 8 suffers from a clash of styles
- The 'faintest asteroid ever detected' won't hit Earth, months of observations show
- India launches 3 satellites and an experimental orbiting platform
- Swarms of tiny robots may one day explore oceans on other worlds
- Watch an Atlas V rocket launch a missile-warning satellite for the US military on Friday
- Catch the moon basking in Earthshine this weekend
- James Webb Space Telescope's powers will be revealed in just weeks and scientists can't wait
- Celebrate Asteroid Day 2022 with free online broadcast today
- June 29
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- SpaceX launches SES-22 communications satellite, lands rocket at sea
- Mars clouds take center stage in new NASA project looking for volunteers
- NASA's DART asteroid mission might completely deform small moonlet
- China tests engine for new crewed moon rocket (photo)
- NASA sun mission spots stunning solar eclipse in space
- James Webb Space Telescope 1st photos will include 'deepest image of our universe'
- Gamma-ray bursts might be much rarer than we thought, study suggests
- How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could humans live through one?
- Hypersonic missile defense program moves toward 2 prototypes
- James Webb Space Telescope scientists prepare for 1st operational images: Listen in today
- Hubble Space Telescope shows distortions of massive galaxy cluster in stunning image
- NASA's Europa Clipper may crash into Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, at mission's end
- Watch Virgin Orbit launch 7 satellites early Saturday
- NASA's solar forecast is turning out to be wrong. This team's model is still on track.
- June 28
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- SpaceX postpones space station cargo mission again, to July 14
- 'The Orville' Season 3 episode 4 takes its world building to a new level
- US military's mysterious X-37B space plane zooms toward orbital record
- Strange cloud in satellite data catches interest of scientists
- Luke and Lando land on Exegol in Adam Christopher’s 'Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith' novel (exclusive)
- Shuttered full-scale space station mockup finds new use with Axiom Space
- Why it'll take NASA's tiny CAPSTONE probe so long to reach the moon
- Rock samples from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover contain key ingredient of life
- White dwarf seen to survive its own supernova explosion
- NASA launches sounding rocket from Australia
- Bizarre 'polygons' are cracking through the surface of Mars
- 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' finale delivers the return of the Jedi
- SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy rocket prototype moves to launch pad for tests
- Private Cygnus cargo ship departs space station for a fiery death in Earth's atmosphere
- NASA's tiny CAPSTONE cubesat launches on pioneering moon mission
- Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo ship boosts International Space Station's orbit
- Venus Aerospace unveils its new dart-like Mach 9 hypersonic plane design
- Former astronauts and space industry leaders weigh in on fall of Roe v. Wade and abortion access
- Watch NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat launch to the moon today to test unique lunar orbit
- June 27
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- Satellites zoom in on cities' hottest neighborhoods to help combat the urban heat island effect
- James Webb Space Telescope team clears 1st instrument for science observations
- Watch Mercury roll by as BepiColombo probe makes superclose flyby (video)
- July full moon 2024: See the Buck Moon share the sky with Mercury
- Alien super-Earths may get a habitability boost from hydrogen-rich atmospheres
- Coming increase in rocket launches will damage ozone, alter climate, study finds
- Planet Neptune will go into reverse as it moves in the sky on Tuesday
- James Webb Space Telescope will study Milky Way's monster black hole
- Did a giant radio telescope in China just discover aliens? Not so FAST…
- June 26
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- NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat launch to the moon delayed again for systems checks
- Marvel at the majestic galaxies in this classic Hubble telescope photo
- Buzz Lightyear has really flown in space. Here are the videos to prove it.
- See the moon shine near Mercury before dawn on Monday as it concludes its planet tour
- You can watch the rare 5-planet alignment in a live webcast for free today
- Flashes from neutron star tidal waves may signal impending mergers
- Gaia mission: 5 revealing insights from its latest data
- June 25
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- 'Blade Runner' at 40: Director Ridley Scott's dystopian masterpiece continues to reverberate today
- Don't miss Venus meet the moon before dawn on Sunday in gorgeous photo opportunity
- China launches 4 satellites with 2 rockets in 2 days
- Extreme microbes in salty Arctic water could aid search for life on Mars
- NASA to launch 3 sounding rockets from Northern Territory in boost for Australian space efforts
- Stunning Mars photos by the Curiosity rover show ancient climate shift
- LightSail 2 celebrates 3rd space birthday as end of mission approaches
- NASA eyeing late August for launch of Artemis 1 moon mission
- June 24
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- 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' episode 7 teases the return of an epic character
- See the rare alignment of 5 planets and the moon in this stunning night sky photo
- Astronaut cosplays as 'Gravity' spacefarer in epic space station shot
- Harmful pig poop lagoons mapped from space (images)
- NASA's metal asteroid mission Psyche won't launch before mid-2023 (and could face cancellation)
- Rogue rocket's moon crash site spotted by NASA probe (photos)
- Europe's veteran Mars orbiter gets upgrade to key instrument for seeking water
- This newfound fast radio burst challenges what astronomers know about the powerful astronomical phenomena
- Mercury shows off craters in amazing pictures from BepiColombo flyby
- Mysterious 'hot Jupiter' planets can form quickly or slowly, Gaia spacecraft reveals
- Save up to $110 on the Elegoo Mars 2 Pro 3D printer at Amazon
- Mars meteorite challenges leading theory of how the Red Planet formed
- Mars stares back with eerie eyeball-like crater (photo)
- Venus and the crescent moon get together in dazzling dance early Sunday
- Funko to can NASA astronauts as limited-edition Soda vinyl figures
- NASA halts sale of cockroach-eaten Apollo 11 moon dust
- Jupiter scientists need your help hunting for storms in stunning photos
- June 23
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- NASA funds nuclear power systems for possible use on the moon
- NASA declares Artemis 1 moon rocket test successful, begins prepping for launch
- South Korea cancels Apophis asteroid probe: report
- Launch of NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat moon mission delayed to June 27
- Rare alignment of 5 planets peaks Friday as crescent moon joins the parade
- Blood-red aurora transforms into 'STEVE' before stargazer's eyes
- Untangling the Milky Way's evolution through big-data astronomy
- Scientists map weird metal asteroid that NASA spacecraft will launch to this year
- Mercury-bound spacecraft whizzes past the smallest planet for the 2nd time
- Bizarre spiral object found swirling around Milky Way's center
- 'Emerging super Crab' might be the most powerful pulsar ever discovered
- See the moon 'jump' over Uranus in the predawn sky this week
- Hubble Space Telescope catches dead star in the act of cosmic cannibalism
- Wild solar weather is causing satellites to plummet from orbit. It's only going to get worse.
- June 22
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- Ariane 5 rocket launches 2 communications satellites to orbit from South America
- Unprecedented! 'The Orville' Season 3 Episode 3 scores a perfect 10 from us
- How Octavia E. Butler mined her boundless curiosity to forge a new vision for humanity
- Wild blue spiral in New Zealand sky likely made by SpaceX rocket (photo)
- NASA applauds Artemis 1 moon rocket's fueling milestone, mulls readiness for launch
- A huge comet will fly by Earth in July and you might be able to see it
- Former NASA deputy chief reveals story behind Apollo 13 astronaut's medal of honor
- A giant sunspot the size of 3 Earths is facing us right now
- Save $40 on the Creality Ender 3 V2 3D printer at Amazon
- Star pose: Astronaut demos microgravity yoga on International Space Station
- NASA's Mars InSight lander will risk earlier shut down to squeeze out a little more science
- Spot Venus near the Pleiades in the predawn sky on Thursday
- On alien worlds, exotic form of ice may transport nutrients to hidden oceans
- 4 dead telescopes' observations lead to stunning new galaxy portraits
- Dream Chaser space plane may land at New Mexico's Spaceport America
- June 21
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- South Korea's homegrown Nuri rocket launches satellites into orbit for 1st time
- Summer solstice 2022 celebrated on Earth and in space (photos)
- Propstore auctions rare screen-used 'Red Leader' X-wing model from 'Star Wars: A New Hope' (exclusive)
- China plans to return Mars samples to Earth in 2031: report
- SpaceX and OneWeb tell FCC their broadband megaconstellations can coexist
- The moon will swing by Mars early Wednesday morning as it continues its planetary tour
- World's largest liquid mirror telescope ready to observe
- Kitt Peak telescopes remain standing after Arizona wildfire claims at least 4 buildings on site
- The James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to do science — and it's seeing the universe more clearly than even its own engineers hoped for
- Summer solstice 2022 marks the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere
- NASA's DART asteroid-impact probe spots the bright star Vega
- Hubble Space Telescope 'sea of sequins' image shows off a star cluster
- In the new Disney Pixar movie Lightyear, time gets bendy. Is time travel real, or just science fiction?
- NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket passes crucial fueling test despite leak
- June 20
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- Planned space station boost by Cygnus freighter cuts off 5 seconds into burn
- Review: 'Lightyear' sputters upon liftoff in Pixar's new Buzz Lightyear origin movie
- Scientists find remains of cannibalized baby planets in Jupiter's cloud-covered belly
- James Webb Space Telescope is about halfway through its instrument checks
- Astroscale to launch space-junk-removing test mission in 2024
- NASA channeled its inner Buzz Lightyear with this wild Z-1 spacesuit concept
- The moon will cozy up to Jupiter early Tuesday morning as it continues its planetary tour
- 'Betelgeuse on steroids' sheds light on how rare massive stars die
- Hubble Space Telescope shows 5,000 ancient galaxies sparkling like confetti
- Andromeda galaxy bears scars of a catastrophic collision
- June solstice 2022 around the world. Here is what to expect
- Watch NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket fueling test live on the launch pad for free
- June 19
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- 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' episode 5: The force unleashed
- International Space Station dodges orbital debris from Russian anti-satellite test
- Robotics expert Robin Murphy explains why 'Star Wars' robots don't reflect reality
- Hubble Space Telescope starstruck by a mysterious globular cluster (photo)
- NASA's Lucy mission adds 9th asteroid to its list of attractions
- Newly spotted asteroid near Venus earns name from Pauma band of Native Americans
- SpaceX launches and lands 3rd rocket in 36 hours
- June 18
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- 'Beyond Infinity' launches deep into Buzz Lightyear's history on Disney Plus
- Look up! See the moon shine near massive asteroid Vesta this weekend.
- SpaceX launches German military satellite, lands rocket
- NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket begins crucial prelaunch test today
- Statue of Sally Ride, first American woman in space, unveiled at aviation museum
- June 17
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- Arizona wildfire reaches some of famed Kitt Peak's telescopes
- Stratolaunch's huge Roc carrier plane flies higher than ever on 7th test flight
- 'The Color of Space': Watch NASA's new documentary celebrating Black space explorers for Juneteenth
- SpaceX fires some employees behind letter denouncing Elon Musk's behavior: reports
- China's 'alien' signal almost certainly came from humans, project researcher says
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket aces record 13th flight in Starlink satellite launch
- The moon begins monthly tour of planets early Saturday. First stop, Saturn!
- Large Hadron Collider's operator will end cooperation with Russia in 2024
- Fire shuts down Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona
- Telescopes watch the sun bake a comet to death
- Hubble Space Telescope's cosmic birdwatching finds a crane amid the stars
- 'Factorian Deep,' the new deepest point in Antarctica's Southern Ocean, mapped for the first time
- NASA astronaut helped Pixar find space ranger's new look in 'Lightyear'
- June 16
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- SpaceX to launch 3 rockets from 3 pads in 3 days this weekend
- Rare 5-planet alignment comes into better view this week. Here's what to expect.
- Exclusive: 'Star Wars' legend Phil Tippett discusses his terrifying new animated odyssey 'Mad God'
- NASA assigns 2 astronauts to fly on Boeing Starliner's 1st crewed mission
- Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is hemorrhaging ice faster than in the past 5,500 years
- SpaceX employees decry Elon Musk's 'embarrassing' behavior: report
- China's moon sample-return mission finds water evidence twice over
- 'Strawberry Supermoon' sparkles behind NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket (photos)
- Curious Kids: What would happen if someone moved at twice the speed of light?
- The universe explained in All About Space magazine's latest issue
- 2 Earthlike planets spotted in newly discovered nearby star system
- Stellar pair may have formed when wandering star stumbled too close to another
- Hubble Space Telescope photo reveals stunning mix of young and old stars
- NASA's Artemis 1 megarocket faces huge test this weekend for launch around the moon
- How the bluest asteroid in the solar system got its color
- June 15
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- Mars rover Perseverance spots shiny silver litter on the Red Planet (photo)
- Fastest-growing black hole ever seen is devouring the equivalent of 1 Earth per second
- Did China just detect signals from an alien civilization?
- Exclusive: Director Emily Dean creates a trippy Moebius tribute for Netflix's 'Love, Death + Robots Vol. 3'
- See Mercury as it reaches 'greatest elongation' before dawn on Thursday
- Boeing reveals new Starliner spacesuit with replica made by Adam Savage
- Missing microbial poop in Venus' clouds suggests the planet has no life
- Fastest nova ever seen 'rings' like a bell thanks to feeding white dwarf
- Physicists link two time crystals in seemingly impossible experiment
- How baby stars blow bubbles as they are ejected from their nurseries
- Artemis astronaut Jessica Watkins marvels at the moon from space station (photo)
- Launch of NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat moon mission delayed again, to June 25
- June 14
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- Strawberry supermoon: June full moon free webcast canceled due to clouds
- First stunning 'Starfield' gameplay footage reveals an awesome Mars rover Easter egg
- 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' episode 6 suffers from a slight dip in story quality
- 'Star Trek: Picard - Stargazer' puts Jean-Luc back in command in new IDW comic series
- 'The Orville' season 3 episode 2 tips its hat to classic sci-fi horror
- 'Beavis And Butt-head Do The Universe' trailer launches cartoon 'icons' across space (and time)
- SpaceX's Starship will be ready for 1st orbital flight in July, Elon Musk says
- China's new map of the moon captures lunar geologic features in incredible detail
- Perseverance Mars rover spots weird snake-head rock and balancing boulder (photo)
- NASA's Lucy asteroid spacecraft solar array rescue efforts continuing
- Hear the sounds of starquakes across the Milky Way from Gaia probe
- 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' episode 4: A daring rescue that doesn’t quite hit the mark
- Polaris Dawn crew training for epic private SpaceX mission this fall
- Shuttle fliers enter Astronaut Hall of Fame with eye on future in space
- France becomes 20th nation to sign Artemis Accords for moon exploration
- June 13
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- SpaceX cargo launch to space station delayed 2 more weeks, to July 11
- SpaceX's Starship rocket project can continue in South Texas, FAA review finds
- Strawberry supermoon of June rises on Tuesday. Here's what to expect.
- A long solar flare just erupted from the sun and the video is stunning
- 'Dark' black hole wandering the Milky Way may be the smallest yet detected
- 'Starquakes' shake the surface of thousands of stars, Gaia galaxy mapper reveals
- With Voyager 1 data mystery, NASA relies on slow, long-distance conversation
- Giant galaxy cluster collision triggers vast shock wave stretching over a million light-years long
- Jupiter's icy moon Europa will block out a star for lucky skywatchers
- June 12
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- Astra rocket suffers major failure during launch, 2 NASA satellites lost
- Watch Astra launch 2 tiny hurricane-studying NASA satellites today
- New trove of Gaia data will uncloak the Milky Way's dark past and future
- Marvel Comics reveals new 'Star Wars: Yoda' series
- The moon will block a bright double star tonight. Here's how to see it.
- Curious Kids: Why does it matter if Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet?
- Behold the coiled beauty of this snake-like galaxy 80 million light-years from Earth
- Milky Way mapper Gaia to release new data on Monday. Here's how to watch it live.
- June 11
- June 10
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- Space Center Houston celebrates Artemis with new exhibit, Moon2Mars festival
- Momentus troubleshooting problems with newly launched space tug
- Stratolaunch ends 6th test flight of Roc, the world's largest airplane, early after unexpected results
- 'Where Starships Go To Die' is a terrifying new sci-fi thriller from AfterShock Comics
- Father's Day gifts 2022: The best gifts in the universe
- Sci-fi adventure game 'Deliver Us Mars' launches on Sept. 27
- A once and future Mars: Finding the space history in 'For All Mankind' season 3
- 'For All Mankind' Season 3 premieres on Apple TV Plus with a strange dose of a Mars-crazed 1990s
- Asteroid Ryugu contains material older than the planets, among the most primitive ever studied on Earth
- NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has a 'pet rock' along for the ride
- NASA's Psyche mission delay means change of targets for secondary asteroid probes
- Europe will launch a 'lurking' probe in 2029 to watch for an interstellar comet
- June 9
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- 'Star Wars: The Bad Batch' charges back to Disney Plus for Season 2 in September
- A 'planetary breakup' of 5 planets in the June's big stargazing sight, NASA says
- Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop
- A Venus-bound mission from NASA will carry a tiny sensor built by students to the planet's hellish surface
- NASA hopes new study helps bring UFO research into the mainstream
- NASA is joining the hunt for 'unidentified aerial phenomena'
- Earth's magnetic poles probably won't flip soon, after all
- James Webb Space Telescope will study how the 1st black hole 'seeds' formed in the 'baby universe'
- Dark matter: should we be so sure it exists? Here's how philosophy can help.
- Mars Base 101: How astronauts could make the most of a 30-day Red Planet stay
- June 8
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- SpaceX launches Egyptian communications satellite, lands rocket on ship at sea
- James Webb Space Telescope hit by micrometeoroid just months into flight
- NASA, SpaceX now targeting June 28 for next Dragon cargo launch after delay
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity has a dead sensor but its team aims to keep flying
- Discovery of second repeating fast radio burst raises new questions
- Why does the moon look close some nights and far away on other nights?
- Airbus sending 3D printer to space station next year to pave way for off-Earth factories
- Russia wants to restart Germany's black-hole searching space telescope
- Ukrainian startup conducts new tests for engine of 'self-devouring' rocket
- Hubble Space Telescope's largest-ever infrared image peers back 10 billion years
- June 7
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- 'The Orville' season 3 premiere sets out to show this sci-fi series is a tour de force
- 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' episode 5 taps into some classic Trek tropes
- Wobbly jets of binary star systems may affect chances of hosting life
- Elon Musk says SpaceX won't take Starlink business public for 3 or 4 years: report
- Siberian tundra could vanish in less than 500 years
- China's next crewed spacecraft is ready for potential space station rescue mission
- The 3 biggest constellations will be on full display this June. Here's how to see them.
- Asteroid the size of 3 blue whales zooms past Earth safely
- 'Top Gun: Maverick' got help from Lockheed Martin engineers to create its hypersonic SR-72 Darkstar plane
- Dizzy up the telescope: NASA channels 'Space Invaders' in new browser game
- This newly discovered neutron star might light the way for a whole new class of stellar object
- New trove of data from Europe's Gaia mission will lead to best Milky Way map ever
- Striking dunes on Mars boast a complex formation history
- Father's Day telescope deal: Save $600 on the Unistellar eVscope eQuinox
- June 6
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- SpaceX's next cargo launch to space station delayed due to odd propellant reading
- Hubble Space Telescope images twisted galaxy shaped by a big neighbor
- Valery Ryumin, cosmonaut who launched to Salyut and Mir space stations, dies at 82
- New simulation charts how the early universe developed within seconds of the Big Bang
- NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket returns to launch pad for crucial tests
- How plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth's 'Goldilocks' climate
- SpaceX's Starship will deploy next-gen Starlink satellites Pez-dispenser style (video)
- The aliens are all hanging out on Dyson spheres circling white dwarfs, physicist argues
- 3 Chinese astronauts settling in for 6-month stay on Tiangong space station
- Watch the biggest-ever comet outburst spray dust across the cosmos
- Iron meteorites point to millions of years of chaos in early solar system
- Infamous asteroid Apophis 'rediscovered' as scientists test asteroid defense mechanisms
- Wow! International Space Station and Boeing Starliner captured in the same incredible image
- June 5
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- Watch NASA roll its huge Artemis 1 moon rocket back to the launch pad tonight
- Venus crossed the sun's face 10 years ago. Most people alive will never see the sight again.
- 3 Chinese astronauts arrive at Tiangong space station for 6-month stay
- To space and back: Blue Origin's NS-21 crew wants to go again (and again)
- Moon bricks, space sutures and more: Meet the science SpaceX is flying to the space station this week
- China launches 3 astronauts to oversee construction of new Tiangong space station
- June 4
- June 3
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- Watch Blue Origin launch 6 space tourists on a New Shepard rocket today
- Tom Cruise returns to the danger zone in the triumphant 'Top Gun: Maverick' (Review)
- James Webb Space Telescope coverage wins Pulitzer Prize for science writer Natalie Wolchover and Quanta
- 'Thor: Love and Thunder' new trailer tells the tale of the 'space viking'
- NASA picks new experiments for commercial delivery to moon in 2026
- Over 100 hidden asteroids detected thanks to new algorithm studying old telescope data
- The 'supermoon' season of 2022 continues with the Full Strawberry Moon on June 14
- See the new trailer 'Star Wars Jedi: Survivor' coming in 2023
- What's it like to be on Venus or Pluto? We studied their sand dunes and found some clues.
- New, extremely reactive chemical discovered in the atmosphere
- Russia launches new Progress 81 cargo ship to International Space Station
- Dress to impress: US Space Force releases new grooming and uniform guidelines
- Jupiter is a whirling world in stunning (and woozy) footage from Juno spacecraft
- Monument to NASA's fallen Apollo 1 crew dedicated at national cemetery
- Monster black holes may have murdered their host galaxies in the early universe
- Chinese astronaut gives hair-washing demonstration in space (video)
- June 2
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- NASA to buy 5 more astronaut missions from SpaceX
- Elon Musk tells SpaceX, Tesla workers they must be in office at least 40 hours a week: report
- Pew pew! Perseverance rover on Mars picks its own prize rocks to shoot with laser
- Blue-whale-size asteroid to screech past Earth in close encounter on June 6
- Our Mars rover mission was suspended because of the Ukraine war — here's what we're hoping for next
- 4 hostile alien civilizations may lurk in the Milky Way, a new study suggests
- Hubble telescope spots peculiar dwarf galaxy with really bright neighbor
- China proposes alien planet mission to hunt habitable worlds by scanning wobbling stars
- Strange 'unknown structure,' a faint radio glow thousands of light-years wide, found around closest quasar
- See 5 planets align in the night sky this month in a rare treat!
- June 1
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- NASA just picked these 2 companies to build next-gen spacesuits for the moon, space station
- James Webb Space Telescope will release its 1st science-quality images July 12
- Groundbreaking sets stage for space shuttle Endeavour launch-like display
- NASA's Mars MAVEN spacecraft spent 3 months on the brink of disaster
- What the Voyager space probes can teach humanity about immortality as they sail for trillions of years
- Physicists just rewrote a foundational rule for nuclear fusion reactors that could unleash twice the power
- New and improved satellites will help track storms this hurricane season
- NASA's sun-grazing Parker Solar Probe will zip through its 12th stellar closeup today
- NASA to make big announcement about Artemis moon spacesuits today. Watch the reveal live.
- Launch of NASA's CAPSTONE cubesat moon mission delayed to June 13
