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Breakthrough Starshot to Alpha Centauri
Breakthrough Starshot seeks proof of concept for a 100-million-mile-per-hour mission - using light-propelled nanocrafts - to reach the nearest star in 20 years.
April 29, 2016
Mars rover crosses most rugged terrain so far
The Curiosity rover has nearly crossed a stretch of the roughest terrain it's seen during its 44 months on Mars. Scientists are monitoring the wear and tear on the rover's wheels.
April 28, 2016
Stunning view of solar flare
On April 17, an active region on the sun’s right side released a mid-level solar flare, which can be seen in this video as a bright flash of light.
April 27, 2016
Dwarf planet Makemake has a moon
This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the first moon ever discovered around little Makemake, in the outermost region of our solar system.
April 26, 2016
Watch NASA build a space telescope
The JWST mirror covers off for a few days this week, and webcams are set up at Goddard Space Flight Center. Watch!
April 26, 2016
What Venus Express learned by aerobraking
Results from the Venus Express spacecraft, obtained when - in the craft's final months - it surfed the dense atmosphere of Venus.
April 26, 2016
Moon rocks reveal nearby supernova
Iron-60 found in moon rocks supports an earlier finding that - 2 million years ago - a supernova exploded only 300 light-years away.
April 25, 2016
Bubble Nebula looks like giant cosmic soap bubble
A new Hubble image captures - in stunning clarity - the Bubble Nebula, a cloud of gas and dust illuminated by the brilliant star within it.
April 23, 2016
New images of Ceres craters
New Dawn spacecraft images of two craters on the dwarf planet Ceres, Haulani and Oxo. Haulani looks like a fresh impact into Ceres' surface.
April 20, 2016
Gravity lens reveals dwarf dark galaxy
A detailed analysis of an image of the gravitational lens SDP.81 has indicated the presence of a dark dwarf galaxy, four billion light-years away.
April 17, 2016
