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Get ready for New Horizons’ flyby of Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will fly through the Pluto system on July 14. It's only 2 weeks away!
June 29, 2015
SpaceX rocket explodes after launch
It was unmanned, and astronauts aboard the International Space Station still have 4 months of supplies. But it's the third failed cargo mission to ISS in 8 months.
June 28, 2015
Is our universe ringing like a crystal glass?
Two physicists say the universe's expansion has sped up, then slowed down, 7 times since time began. They describe this oscillation as the universe "ringing."
June 26, 2015
Titan’s strange lakes may be sinkholes
What forms the depressions holding liquid hydrocarbon lakes on Saturn's moon Titan? It might be a process similar to that creating caves and sinkholes on Earth.
June 26, 2015
Exoplanet has a comet-like tail Gliese 436b
A Neptune-sized exoplanet is being trailed by an immense cloud of hydrogen. This discovery might also suggest a method for detecting extrasolar oceans.
June 25, 2015
How close to finding alien life?
The search for life beyond Earth has heated up. Here are some of the ways that scientists have been thinking and talking about it, including a definition of new buzzword: biosignatures.
June 25, 2015
Methane in Mars meteorites = life?
Biological processes can produce methane. Its presence in Martian meteorites might mean Mars was or is habitable for microbial life. Or it might not.
June 25, 2015
First color movies of Pluto and Charon
It's not Disney quality, but these distant worlds are real and 3 billion miles (5 billion km) away.
June 23, 2015
Geomagnetic storm on its way, June 22 and 23
It's due to arrive sometime today (June 22, 2015). NOAA forecasters estimate a 90% chance of polar geomagnetic storms when the CME arrives. Aurora alert!
June 22, 2015
All systems go for Europa mission
Jupiter's moon Europa is a promising place to look for life beyond Earth. A new mission to Europa is now moving forward from concept review to development.
June 21, 2015
