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NASA just sent a tiny spacecraft to scope out an orbiting moon base
Big lunar ambitions
NASA's moon megarocket is supposed to launch soon. Here's the holdup.
Not all systems "Go."
Strange Martian rock reveals Mars' wildly different past
A curious discovery on the red planet.
By Mark Kaufman
A meteorite punched a hole in a dog house. Now it's a collector's item.
At Christie's, one of the most popular items in its meteorite auction wasn't even a space rock.
Stunning fat bear wakes up from hibernation and is still huge
A fat bear is a healthy bear.
By Mark Kaufman
Scientists film a jellyfish with a belly full of prey in the deep sea
Hungry creatures of the depths.
Yes, there are 100 million rogue black holes wandering our galaxy
The Milky Way is teeming with black holes.
By Mark Kaufman
Five planets align for first time in 18 years
A sight you won't want to miss!
By Mark Stetson and Jules Suzdaltsev
What's this strange spiral of light in the night sky: aliens or SpaceX?
It can only be one thing, right? Right?
By Sam Haysom
SpaceX achieves incredible feat of 3 launches in 36 hours
It's a spaceflight hat trick.
See 5 planets align in order for first time in 18 years
Set your alarms for early morning skywatching June 24.
Mars rover confronts spindly, crooked finger rocks
Exterrestrial desert has some weird rubble
NASA just inflated its new-age spaceship heat shield for Mars
Space scientists think they've figured out how to pull more drag out of literal thin air.
Predators are growing hungrier in the rapidly heating seas
The oceans keep on soaking up more heat.
The giant megalodon extinction, explained
MEGA SHARK, rip, rip, rip, rip, rip.
By Mark Stetson and Mark Kaufman
These tiny, modular robots are going to space
Why send one big robot when you can send a swarm of tiny robots?
NASA says it will spend nine months studying UFOs
But don't bet on the discovery of intelligent alien life.
By Alex Perry
Mars rover films dust devil mayhem as it explores the red planet
That's a lot of vortices.
By Mark Kaufman
How NASA's Venus probe will survive hell and make unprecedented discoveries
"We haven't seen anything yet."
By Mark Kaufman
Did astronauts really eat freeze dried ice cream in space?
Ice cream and NASA go way back - all the way back to the Apollo program! But astronauts probably didn’t consume as much freeze dried ice cream as your local science museum’s gift shop has you assuming.
By Alisa Stern
