SpaceX Lands Another Rocket
Company racks up its 5th rocket landing in a cargo launch to the Space Station
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How to See This Year's Perseid Meteor Shower
Look up into a dark sky in mid-August to see more than 150 meteors per hour
Astronomers Spot First-Ever "Snow Line" around Newborn Star
The images of water frost forming around the young star V883 Orionis offer new insights into planet formation
Juno Spacecraft Captures First Photo from Jupiter Orbit
Image takes in the Great Red Spot, cloud belts and three big moons
New Dwarf Planet Found Far beyond Pluto
The newfound icy world may be roughly 700 kilometers in size, and orbits the sun once every 700 years
New Equation Tallies Odds of Life Beginning
Creators factor in “origin-of-life” events and available building blocks
First Water Clouds Reported outside the Solar System
Signs seen on brown dwarf, an object bigger than a planet and smaller than a star
China Finishes Building the World's Largest Radio Telescope
A dish the size of 30 football fields will search for alien life
Curiosity Rover Stable after "Safe Mode" Glitch
Mission scientists are investigating what caused a suspension the Mars rover's activities on July 2
Supermassive Black Hole Belches X-Rays from Shredded Star
Researchers used "light echoes" from the the doomed star to map material around the normally dormant black hole
Rare Newborn Planet May Be the Youngest Ever Detected
The Kepler space telescope has discovered an exoplanet that is just five million to 10 million years old—much younger than the typical planet
Newfound Asteroid is "Quasi-Moon" of Earth
Space rock is caught in a “little dance” with our planet, and will bob around us for years to come
When Will China's "Heavenly Palace" Space Lab Fall Back to Earth?
Satellite trackers debate where and when eight-ton Tiangong-1 will come down
What Does Mars Smell Like?
Trying to create a whiff of an alien atmosphere—sunbaked sulfur and chalk
The Universe May Be Expanding Faster Than Astronomers Thought
“Dark radiation” is named as a possible factor, as a new study suggests expansion could be 9 percent faster
Mystery of Martian Methane Deepens
After two years on the Red Planet, NASA's Curiosity rover rules out a seasonal explanation for an observed methane spike
NASA Probes Witness Powerful Magnetic Storms near Earth
Explosive interactions of sun’s and Earth’s fields endanger astronauts and power grids
Why Is Mercury's Transit of the Sun So Rare?
With Mercury’s inclined orbit, transits come 13 times a century
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SpaceX Racks Up Another Sea Landing [Video]
The second successful landing of a Falcon 9 booster on a floating barge is a milestone for the aerospace company
Nearby Star Harbors Trio of Earth-Size Worlds
Astronomers speculate that the three planets orbiting the small, cool star TRAPPIST-1 could support life
