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The latest discoveries from space agencies and astronomers as they explore galaxies, black holes, exoplanets, and more. Also learn about night sky watching events right here on the home planet.

Latest Space Stories

DayJet Real-Time Optimization Engine

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/ Nov 8, 2005

Meade RCX400

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/ Nov 8, 2005

Deep Impact

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/ Nov 8, 2005

Experimental Satellite System 11 (XSS-11)

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/ Oct 25, 2005

Lonely Planet, Expect Company

By William Speed Weed

/ Sep 20, 2005

Can a Small Start-up Build America’s Next Spaceship?

By Michael Belfiore

/ Sep 13, 2005

Breaking News from Space.com: NASA Returns to Shuttle Flight as Discovery Reaches Orbit

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/ Jul 26, 2005

The Biggest Bang

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/ Jun 3, 2005

Mars in Focus

By Michael Moyer

/ Jun 1, 2005

Cruising to Mars

By Rina Bander

/ May 25, 2005

Touch Down on Titan

By Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

/ May 25, 2005

Intergalactic Communications

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/ May 24, 2005

The Tourist’s Space Suit

By Patrick Di Justo

/ May 20, 2005

Storms And Waves

By Michael Moyer

/ Apr 29, 2005

Landslides

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/ Apr 15, 2005

NASA’s Fixer-Upper Flies Again

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/ Apr 12, 2005

Field Trip, Anyone?

By Patrick Di Justo

/ Apr 6, 2005

Next Big Things

By William Speed Weed

/ Mar 31, 2005

Low-Earth Orbit, and Beyond!

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/ Mar 2, 2005

The Five-Billion-Star Hotel

By Michael Belfiore

/ Mar 2, 2005

Forget Rocket Ships. TELEPORT!

By Sarah Goforth

/ Feb 2, 2005

The Daring Visionaires of Fringe Aviation

By Jeff Wise

/ Jan 1, 2005

Twilight of the Astronaut?

By Preston Lerner

/ Jan 1, 2005

On Sale Soon: Plane Rides to Nowhere

By Trevor Thieme

/ Dec 2, 2004

Astronomical Wagers

By Sarah Goforth

/ Dec 2, 2004

Space Music

By Gregory Mone

/ Nov 26, 2004

Genesis Crashes. Can Stardust be Saved?

By William Speed Weed

/ Nov 14, 2004

Robin Canup

By Ed Finn

/ Oct 30, 2004

Catch Some Rays

By William Speed Weed

/ Oct 28, 2004

Creative Waste Management in Space

By Michael Rosenwald

/ Aug 30, 2004

From the Archives: A Day With Arthur C. Clarke

By Matthew Teague

/ Aug 20, 2004

If We Can’t Freeze People on Earth, Don’t Try it in Space

By Elizabeth Svoboda

/ Aug 5, 2004

Astronomy Online

By Joe Brown

/ Jul 30, 2004

Your Venusian Crib Sheet

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/ Jun 29, 2004

SpaceShipOne Soars

By Bill Sweetman and Eric Adams

/ Jun 21, 2004

The O’Neillian

By Bruce Grierson

/ May 10, 2004

Beyond NASA: Dawn of the Next Space Age

By Bruce Grierson

/ Apr 17, 2004

NASA

By Dawn Stover

/ Feb 2, 2004

The New Space Race

By Dawn Stover

/ Dec 31, 2003

Galileo, 13, To Commit Cosmic Suicide

By Martha Harbison

/ Sep 4, 2003

Mars on Planet Earth

By Gregory Mone

/ Jul 31, 2003

Four Fixes to a Safer Shuttle

By Dawn Stover

/ Jun 20, 2003

Burt Builds Your Ride to Space

By Preston Lerner

/ Jun 13, 2003

The Search For Rocket Fuels Gives New Meaning to “Candle Power”

By Michael Moyer

/ Apr 26, 2003

Space Shuttle: The Next Generation

By Bill Sweetman

/ Apr 15, 2003

After Columbia: The ISS in Crisis

By Scott Mowbray

/ Mar 17, 2003

ISS Learns from Mir’s Flame-Up

By Trevor Thieme

/ Jan 24, 2003

FYI: Geostationary orbits

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/ Jan 24, 2003

Hail Venus! Is There Life Here?

By Erik Baard

/ Jan 10, 2003

Is the International Space Station visible to the naked eye in the night skies?

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/ Dec 4, 2002

The New War In Space

By Dawn Stover

/ Aug 8, 2002

We Fly the Space Shuttle

By Mark E. Ward

/ Jun 20, 2002

NASA Hopes to Catch a Comet

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/ Jun 18, 2002

More NASA Letters

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/ May 10, 2002

My Mother, the Scientist

By Charles Hirshberg

/ Apr 18, 2002

Where do the tons of “space dust” that arrive yearly come from?

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/ Apr 1, 2002

Go Somewhere!

By Dawn Stover

/ Mar 9, 2002

NASA Milestones

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/ Mar 9, 2002

Self-Made Scientist

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/ Mar 9, 2002

Time Travel Made (Relatively) Easy

By Michael Moyer

/ Feb 20, 2002

Robot Bugs Planned for Mars Invasion!

By Etienne Benson

/ Feb 8, 2002

Exploring Mars by Bulldozer

By Suzanne Kantra Kirschner & Michael Moyer (Editors)

/ Jan 26, 2002

Better Eyes for Hubble

By Suzanne Kantra Kirschner & Michael Moyer (Editors)

/ Jan 25, 2002

2001: A Space Catnap

By Simone de Schipper

/ Jan 19, 2002

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