Russia Could Stay with the International Space Station to 2028
The orbital outpost is presently slated to be retired as early as 2024
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Only One of TRAPPIST-1's Rocky Planets May Be Right for Life
A new climate model suggests six of the nearby star's seven worlds are uninhabitable
Astronomers Struggle to Explain Mysterious X-Ray Burst
The brief flash of light from a far-distant galaxy is unlike any seen before
Citizen Scientists Spot Candidates for Planet Nine
A crowdsourced science project to find the hypothetical new world has turned up four curious candidates
Used SpaceX Rocket Launches Satellite, Then Lands in Historic First Reflight
Elon Musk says reusing expensive orbit-class boosters will mean “a huge revolution in spaceflight”
New Supply Could Prevent Deep-Space Plutonium Shortage
Public-private partnerships may boost available nuclear fuel for space exploration
Life Bounced Back Fast after Dino-Killing Impact
A new study finds organisms only took 30,000 years to repopulate a region devastated by the impact
Gravitational Waves Send Supermassive Black Hole Flying
The billion-solar-mass object is the largest runaway black hole ever seen
Planetary Scientists Decry Trump's Proposed Earth-Science Cuts
The president's proposed budget would boost funding for NASA's planetary science division, but at what cost?
Comet Landslide Caught in Action
Images from the Rosetta spacecraft provide the first clear link between a comet's outbursts and changes upon the comet's surface
NASA Satellite Catches Star's Death by Black Hole
The Swift telescope has charted a star's plunge into a supermassive black hole at the core of a distant galaxy
Telescope Sets Sights on Universe's First Stars
New funding will help the HERA observatory to peer deeper into the cosmic past than ever before
Titan’s Lakes May Fizz with Nitrogen
Bubbles of nitrogen gas may explain strange shape-shifting “magic islands” in the hydrocarbon seas of Saturn's largest moon
Dark Matter Did Not Dominate Early Galaxies
A new study finds the mysterious substance was at most a minor constituent of large galaxies in the early universe
Enceladus's Buried Ocean Is Just beneath the Surface
New research suggests parts of the subsurface ocean are covered by as little as two kilometers of ice
Trump’s NASA Budget Eliminates Crewed Mission to Asteroid
The Obama-era Asteroid Redirect Mission is one of several casualties of the $19.1-billion budget request
U.S. and Russia May Explore Venus Together
NASA officials are considering taking part in the upcoming Russian Venera D mission
Star in Record-Breaking Close Orbit around Black Hole
A white dwarf star in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae circles a black hole twice per hour
Kepler Telescope Releases Trove of Data on Newfound Earth-Size Exoplanets
The planet-hunting observatory stared at the TRAPPIST-1 system for nearly three months
The International Space Station May Soon Host the Coolest Place in the Universe
The station's Cold Atom Laboratory will reach temperatures just a billionth of a degree above absolute zero
