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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
A micrometeoroid hit NASA's giant Webb telescope, but it took it like a champ
The big guy has already picked itself up and dusted itself off.
By Amanda Yeo
NASA taps SpaceX for five additional missions through 2030
SpaceX is NASA’s only provider capable of "safe, reliable, and cost-effective human space transportation services."
NASA spacecraft zooms over Jupiter's swirling clouds at 131,000 mph
It swooped darn close.
By Mark Kaufman
NASA's tenacious drone sweeps over Mars in farthest flight yet
A Martian bird's eye view
NASA spins a spiral galaxy soundtrack. What exactly are we hearing?
It's a space jam.
Meteor shower this week: Everything you need to know about tau Herculids
One tau Herculids meteor shower, please.
Vigilant amateur asteroid hunters keep watch for menacing space rocks
Crowd-sourcing planetary defense.
The most mysterious asteroids in the solar system
A spacecraft is en route for the first-ever reconnaissance of these ancient objects.
By Mark Kaufman
Astronomer captures image of the huge mile-wide asteroid (safely) passing Earth
Fortunately, it's not a threat.
By Mark Kaufman
NASA just showed us why its Mars lander will soon run out of power
The landmark robot recorded over 1,300 Martian temblors.
By Mark Kaufman
NASA's getting screwy messages from interstellar space
How much farther can the spacecraft go?
Watch incredible NASA video of a total lunar eclipse from space
The Lucy probe got the money shot
