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Success for Juno’s 1st Jupiter flyby
Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on July 4 and has spent some weeks in a testing mode. On Saturday, it came closer to Jupiter than any spacecraft ever has.
August 28, 2016
Your cosmic suntan
Lie on the beach, and your body is bombarded by light from our sun, and from beyond our galaxy.
August 28, 2016
Juno soars closest to Jupiter August 27
The Juno spacecraft will be about 2,500 miles (4,200 km) above Jupiter's swirling clouds. No other spacecraft has ever orbited Jupiter this closely.
August 27, 2016
Watch SpaceX Dragon depart ISS Friday
Live coverage Friday of cargo ship's departure from International Space Station. Begins at 5:45 a.m. EDT (9:45 UTC).
August 25, 2016
Proxima Centauri’s awesome new planet
The newly found planet for Proxima Centauri, our sun's nearest neighbor among the stars, is revealed as the closest possible abode for alien life.
August 24, 2016
Watch spacewalk live August 19
Two ISS astronauts will perform a spacewalk on Friday. NASA TV's live coverage starts at 6:30 a.m. EDT (10:30 UTC) and lasts about eight hours.
August 19, 2016
Physicists confirm a possible 5th force
“If true, it’s revolutionary,” said Jonathan Feng, professor of physics and astronomy at University of California, Irvine and lead author of the new study.
August 16, 2016
Astronomers aim Kepler at the Pleiades
The famous planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft peered toward the beautiful Pleiades star cluster and measured the spin rates of hundreds of Pleiades stars.
August 13, 2016
Tabby’s Star: More weirdness
Some astronomers think this star may have an alien megastructure - an energy-gathering Dyson sphere - around it. Here's a glimpse of the controversy.
August 13, 2016
Saturn’s moon Titan has flooded canyons
They're steep-sided canyons with liquid in them, but the liquid isn't water. Instead, it's liquid hydrocarbons.
August 12, 2016
