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With one minute remaining, SpaceX aborts today’s launch of Falcon 9
The soonest Space X can try again to launch Falcon 9 and the Dragon spacecraft - on a mission to resupply the International Space Station - is Friday.
January 6, 2015
Wow! Stunning new Pillars of Creation
One of the most beloved Hubble Space Telescope images is called the Pillars of Creation, first captured in 1995. Check out this new Hubble image of the pillars!
January 5, 2015
Slow spin of older stars key in the search for life
This is "gyrochronology," from Greek words gyros (rotation), chronos (time). It can help identify distant planets old enough for complex life to have evolved.
January 5, 2015
How to make an Earth
New evidence suggests that the basic ingredients for our Earth would likely go into making distant rocky exoplanets, orbiting other stars, as well.
January 5, 2015
Super-Earths may have long-lasting oceans
Planets with two to four times the mass of Earth are even better at establishing and maintaining oceans than our Earth, according to new research.
January 5, 2015
Cool animation shows Venus in evening sky in 2015
Watch 238 days of the sky's brightest planet, Venus, now back in your evening sky. You can also see Mercury, Mars and Jupiter enter the scene at various points.
December 31, 2014
Amazing 44-second meteor might be space debris reentry
Video of an impressive and slow meteor seen over Puerto Rico on December 28. It might be a Falcon 9 rocket body falling from orbit.
December 31, 2014
Dawn spacecraft starts approach toward Ceres
The spacecraft will arrive at Ceres, a Texas-sized dwarf planet never before visited by a spacecraft, on March 6, 2015.
December 30, 2014
Tiny galaxy is Milky Way’s newly-discovered neighbor
A tiny, isolated dwarf galaxy almost 7 million light years away, with only one ten-thousandth of the mass of our Milky Way.
December 26, 2014
ISS astronauts send Christmas greetings to the world
Expedition 42 Commander Barry Wilmore and Flight Engineer Terry Virts send greetings and talk a little about their own Christmas Day in space.
December 25, 2014
