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April 30
- FDA approves new NASA ventilator for COVID-19 treatment
- Sting headlines virtual 'Space Songs' concert by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum tonight!
- 'Mars Horizon' beta lets you command your own space agency, but act fast
- Our sun is a weirdly 'quiet' star — and that's lucky for all of us
- NASA picks SpaceX, Dynetics and Blue Origin-led team to develop Artemis moon landers
- Don't panic about Russia's recent anti-satellite test, experts say
- NASA to announce companies to build Artemis moon landers today. Here's how to watch.
- Flashy 'dance' of two monster black holes captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
- 'Uphill battle': SpaceX overcame obstacles on road to historic 1st crew launch
- NASA budget cuts at Mars threaten 'crisis' for Curiosity rover and prolific orbiters
- Building blocks of life found in famous Mars meteorite
April 29
- 'NASA at Home' is bringing space to you daily with incredible resources for all ages
- Meet Ingenuity: Alabama teen names NASA's pioneering Mars Helicopter
- Comet ATLAS disintegrates into pieces as Hubble telescope watches (photos)
- Death from above: Scientists find earliest evidence of person killed by meteorite
- Is space-time smooth or chunky?
April 28
- Small asteroid zips safely by Earth just ahead of a larger space rock's flyby
- Venus shines at its brightest of the year tonight! Here's how to see it.
- Radar views show big asteroid 1998 OR2 tumbling in space ahead of Earth flyby (video)
- Each of these 'tiny' threads of blazing-hot plasma on the sun is 125 miles wide
- See the big asteroid 1998 OR2 just before its Earth flyby in a Slooh webcast today
- 'UFO' videos declassified by US Navy
- Mile-long asteroid 1998 OR2 dons 'mask' before Earth flyby (photos)
- Exploring Apollo 13 at the Cradle of Aviation museum in New York
April 27
- A big asteroid will fly by Earth Wednesday, but don't panic. It won't hit us.
- Stellan Skarsgard in talks for 'Star Wars: Rogue One' prequel on Disney Plus —report
- 'I'll pass': Trump not interested in flying on Virgin Galactic's space plane
- Trump checks out new NASA technology to fight coronavirus pandemic
- Astrophotographers show off their favorite stargazing sites on Earth
- Get out of the way: The 1st restartable solid rocket fuel could help reduce space junk (op-ed)
- SpaceX's SN4 Starship prototype passes key pressure test
April 26
- James Gunn doesn't think 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' or 'The Suicide Squad' will be delayed
- Tomanowos, the meteorite that survived mega-floods and human folly
- See the bright 'evening star' Venus swing by the crescent moon tonight
- 'Star Wars: The Mandalorian' season 3 in the works — Report
- How the Hubble Space Telescope opened our eyes to the first galaxies of the universe
April 25
- Celebrating 30 years of the Hubble Space Telescope
- That's the way the comet crumbles: Hubble image shows remains of Comet ATLAS
- 30 years of Hubble: Space telescope's legacy goes beyond science
- Russian freighter arrives at space station with nearly 3 tons of supplies
- Russian cargo craft launches toward space station
April 24
- Mystery of Venus atmosphere's weird rotation may finally be solved
- Russia is launching a cargo ship to the International Space Station today. Watch it live!
- China reveals name, logo for its 'Tianwen' 1st Mars landing mission
- Black hole keeps snacking on white dwarf locked in its orbit
- SpaceX on target for milestone May 27 crew launch, safety panel says
- Hubble captures a 'Cosmic Reef' in stunning 30th anniversary image
- 30 notable objects that launched with the Hubble Space Telescope 30 years ago
- SpaceX's Starlink satellites will soon get glare-reducing 'sunshades,' Elon Musk says
- NASA engineers build new COVID-19 ventilator in 37 days
- Celebrate Hubble's 30th anniversary with astronauts, astrophysicists & gamers with 'Virtual Astronomy Live'
- The Hubble Space Telescope and 30 years that transformed our view of the universe
- NASA chief to space fans: Don't travel to Florida to watch SpaceX's 1st astronaut launch
April 23
- Our solar system stole asteroids from interstellar space when it was young, scientists say
- SpaceX rolls out new Starship prototype for tests (video)
- The 2020 Lyrid meteor shower thrills skywatchers. Here are the best photos.
- Hubble Space Telescope at 30: Astronaut Mike Massimino looks back at fixing a space icon
- Scientists use Apollo data to create the best geologic moon map ever
- 'PANOSETI' prototypes: Ambitious alien-hunting project deploys 1st two telescopes
- Tiny, levitating 'nanocardboard' aircraft could explore Mars one day
- Is life a gamble? Scientist models universe to find out
- Neil deGrasse Tyson ponders the fate of planet Earth in 'Cosmos: Possible Worlds' finale
April 22
- The top 10 views of Earth from space
- NASA, Lego celebrate Earth Day's 50th anniversary with 'Build A Planet' challenge
- SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites, aces rocket landing in milestone flight
- Iran launches its 1st military satellite into orbit: reports
- Earth science missions are still challenged 50 years after 1st Earth Day
- Big asteroid shows itself ahead of Earth flyby on April 29 (photo)
- You can watch SpaceX launch 60 new Starlink satellites into orbit today. Here's how.
- Earth science is more important than ever (op-ed)
- Buzz Aldrin selling autographed Apollo 11 quarantine photos in coronavirus fundraiser
- Earth Day at 50: How Apollo 8's 'Earthrise' photo helped spark the first celebration
April 21
- Travis Scott will launch 'Astronomical' into the Fortnite frontier this week
- Russian space official tests positive for coronavirus after attending Soyuz crew launch to space station
- NASA spots fireballs from Lyrid meteor shower 2020 (video)
- Air pollution over northern India drops amid coronavirus lockdown
- LeVar Burton in talks for return to 'Star Trek: Picard'
- Europe's planet-hunting CHEOPS telescope spies its 1st alien worlds
- The UAE wants to send people to Mars. But first, a practice round on Earth.
- NASA astronauts may train on private suborbital spaceships
- The Lyrid meteor shower of 2020 peaks tonight!
- Mysterious 'disappearing' exoplanet was just a big cloud of asteroid trash, study suggests
- Physicist Stephen Wolfram thinks he's on to a theory of everything, and wants help simulating the universe
April 20
- No, they're not aliens — SpaceX's Starlink satellites surprise British skywatchers
- Earth Day 2020! Celebrate our home planet with these online activities
- SpaceX moves Starlink launch up a day to Wednesday
- Strange ingredient in interstellar Comet Borisov offers a clue to its origins
- Scientists detect rare crash of two mismatched black holes for the first time ever
- Hold your next video call in a galaxy far far away with 'Star Wars' backgrounds
- Titan twisters? 'Dust devils' may be swirling on Saturn's largest moon
- 1 year after epic black hole photo, Event Horizon Telescope team is dreaming very big
April 19
- International Dark Sky Week: See how humanity's connection with the night sky has evolved
- Lyrid meteor shower 2020 peaks this week! Here's what to expect.
- SpaceX tests Falcon 9 rocket for next Starlink satellite fleet launch
- Happy 30th, Hubble! Science Channel celebrates space telescope icon with special tonight.
April 18
- China wants a piece of the moon. Here's how it plans to handle lunar samples.
- As Comet ATLAS crumbles away, Comet SWAN arrives to take its place for skywatchers
April 17
- International Dark Sky Week 2020 starts Sunday — here's how to celebrate online
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' 20: Mysterious black holes
- New 'Space Fan' Lego minifigure sports her own NASA model rocket
- SpaceX, NASA target May 27 for 1st Crew Dragon test flight with astronauts
- What was it like to work on Apollo 13? Mission engineers to recall the hair-raising flight in webcast today.
- Ailing Intelsat satellite begins new life in orbit after historic servicing mission success
- Astronomers spot quasar with the most powerful winds ever seen
- Daisy Ridley blames 'social media' for poor 'Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker' reception
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aces asteroid-sampling dress rehearsal
- Soyuz spacecraft lands safely with US-Russian crew from space station
April 16
- Anak Krakatau volcano eruption spotted from space (photo)
- Europe's air pollution drop continues amid coronavirus closures
- Three space travelers will return to Earth tonight! Here's how to watch live.
- Russia tests anti-satellite missile and the US Space Force is not happy
- How souvenirs standing in for moon rocks helped save Apollo 13 fifty years ago
- 50 years ago, Apollo 13's Jack Swigert flew to the moon, but forgot something big. Taxes.
- Star's motion around Milky Way's monster black hole proves Einstein right yet again
- Earth is way dustier than we thought. That may be a problem for climate forecasts.
- How do you drive a Mars rover from home? Don't worry, NASA's got this.
April 15
- Newfound alien planet may be most Earth-like yet
- Stephen Colbert calls space station astronaut for social isolation tips
- 'Soviet Space Graphics' takes you inside the cosmic visions of the USSR
- Weird neutrino behavior could explain longstanding antimatter mystery
- What if Apollo 13 failed to return to Earth? A look back 50 years later
- Weird mystery of watery plumes on Europa may hint at 'stealth particles'
- NASA funds proposal to build a telescope on the far side of the moon
- NASA astronaut honors coronavirus frontline workers and first responders from space (video)
- Live Science podcast 'Life's Little Mysteries' 16: Mysterious Aliens
- Lucasfilm finds new writer for 'Star Wars: Obi-Wan' on Disney Plus: report
April 14
- Forged in fire: Earth's past and future explored in 'Cosmos: Possible Worlds'
- New 'Stargirl' Clip takes you inside the Justice Society of America HQ
- Virgin Orbit aces final test flight before first launch (photos)
- Newfound asteroid the size of a house will fly safely by Earth Wednesday
- Space travel can seriously change your brain
- What are star charts?
- Auriga constellation: Facts about the charioteer
- This stunning crescent Earth is the last view of home from the Mercury-bound BepiColombo
- A huge cloud of invisible particles seems to be missing from the Milky Way
- 'At least something worked': Watch Apollo 13's crew hail a rocket crash on the moon
- Comet Atlas is falling apart, new photos confirm
April 13
- Intuitive Machines targets vast 'Ocean of Storms' valley for private moon lander in 2021
- You can see the moon shine with Jupiter, Saturn and Mars before dawn this week. Here's how.
- This vintage NASA Apollo 13 documentary takes you back to the iconic moon mission
- Russia's Soyuz rocket production on hold due to coronavirus
- 'World of Tanks Blitz' just transformed the moon into a tank battleground
- Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise on their moon mission 50 years later
- 'Oumuamua origin story: How our mysterious interstellar visitor may have been born
- Boom! Distant star explosion is brightest ever seen
- Weird alien planet may be core of stripped-down gas giant
- 1 year ago, the world saw a black hole for the first time. Here's how it got a Hawaiian name.
April 12
- Ozone hole three times the size of Greenland opens over the North Pole
- 'Honey, I Shrunk the NASA Payload' challenge seeks tiny designs for the moon
- Trailblazing Mars helicopter attached to Perseverance rover for July launch
- Here's what to see in the night sky while you're stuck at home
April 11
- Apollo 13 timeline: The hectic days of NASA's 'successful failure' to the moon
- Celebrate Yuri's Night 2020 online with Bill Nye, astronauts and more tonight!
- Activities and online resources for homebound kids: A coronavirus guide
- Failure was not an option: NASA's Apollo 13 mission of survival in pictures
- Apollo 13 in Real Time website offers new insight into mission, 50 years later
- Moon-metal medallions, space pens and more mark Apollo 13 50th anniversary
- Apollo 13 at 50: How NASA turned near-disaster at the moon into a 'successful failure' in space
April 10
- Light and the quantum universe take center stage in 'Cosmos: Possible Worlds'
- Celebrate Apollo 13 at 50 with NASA's 'Home Safe' documentary (and much more!)
- Fred Haise: NASA astronaut and Apollo 13 crewmember
- NASA satellite sees air pollution drop over northeastern US amid coronavirus outbreak
- Watching coronavirus outbreak from space a 'surreal' experience, astronauts say
- What a view! Mercury probe snaps stunning photos of our planet during Earth flyby.
- Chernobyl forest wildfire seen from space as radiation spikes (photo)
- Rocket Lab catches falling Electron booster with helicopter in reusability test (video)
- Meet Hope: The UAE's first spacecraft bound for Mars is now complete
- 5G is not linked to the coronavirus pandemic in any way. Here's the science.
- 50 years after Apollo 13, we can now see the moon as the astronauts did
- Farewell, Earth! Mercury probe makes successful flyby to head deeper into solar system.
April 9
- A Mercury probe flies by Earth tonight. Here's how to hitch a VR ride (and maybe see it, too!)
- Chinese Long March 3B rocket fails during launch of Indonesian satellite
- 'Hubble: Thirty Years of Discovery' to premiere on Science Channel April 19 (exclusive video)
- How the brown dwarf blows: Wind speed of a 'failed star' measured for 1st time
- Astronauts share isolation workout tips from space (video)
- Houston, we've had a delay: Apollo 13 50th celebrations rescheduled
- Surprise! The universe's expansion rate may vary from place to place
- How blockchain can change the space industry
- How did supermassive black holes get so big and chonky? Scientists still don't know.
- Soyuz crew 'socially distances' from Earth with launch to space station
April 8
- Jack Swigert: Apollo 13 command module pilot
- You can watch 3 astronauts launch to the space station early Thursday. Here's how.
- We're T-minus 4 years to the next Great American Solar Eclipse in 2024
- 'Super Pink Moon,' the biggest & brightest of 2020, stuns skywatchers around the world (photos)
- Behold! See the Hubble telescope's iconic 'Pillars of Creation' view in infrared
- This weird black hole is bending light back on itself like a boomerang
- Coronavirus pandemic forces US Space Force, SpaceX to delay GPS satellite launch
- Could Mars samples brought to Earth pose a threat to our planet? What the coronavirus (and 'Andromeda Strain') can teach us.
- 100 days from launch: NASA's Mars rover Perseverance gets its wheels, parachute
- Here's how Europe's JUICE spacecraft will look for alien oceans
- Take a wild ride with SpaceX in this 'emergency egress' test for Crew Dragon (video)
April 7
- Here's the best way to enjoy the 'Super Pink Moon,' according to a NASA astronomer
- Astronaut Anne McClain's estranged wife charged with lying about alleged 'space crime'
- Committee waves off landing Apollo lunar module on new $1 coin
- How to see the 'Super Pink Moon' online in live webcasts today
- Event Horizon Telescope spots weird black-hole jet mystery inside quasar
- SpaceX Dragon cargo ship, the last of its kind, returns to Earth from space station
- No, the 'Super Pink Moon' isn't really pink … though we wish it was
- A spacecraft headed to Mercury will observe the moon this week during an Earth flyby
- 'Super Pink Moon' rises tonight! Teach your kids about the biggest full moon of 2020
- Trailblazing astronomer Margaret Burbidge, who helped reveal what happens inside stars, dies at 100
April 6
- Boeing will launch a 2nd uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft for NASA
- Jim Lovell: NASA astronaut and Apollo 13 commander
- What smacked Uranus on its side? Something icy and as massive as Earth, scientists say.
- April's Super Pink Moon is the biggest full moon of 2020. Here's what to expect.
- Trump signs executive order to support moon mining, tap asteroid resources
- Bright Comet ATLAS could blaze into view this month
- This is what Jupiter and Saturn look like from Mars
- Private companies find role in developing nuclear power for space travel
- Next stop, Enceladus? Scientists make their case for a mission to Saturn's icy moon
- Heavy-metal alien planet may be shaped like a football
April 5
- Antarctica's Denman Glacier is sinking into the world's deepest canyon
- Astronomers spot never-before-seen gravitational wave source from binary white dwarf stars
April 4
- The spaceship crash survival game 'Symmetry' is free right now on GOG
- Marvel at the universe with the free Northeast Astronomy Forum Virtual Experience today!
- Huge asteroid 1998 OR2 will zip harmlessly by Earth April 29. See the latest telescope photos.
- Accion raises $11 million to refine its dime-size spacecraft thrusters
April 3
- NASA chief rallies employees amid coronavirus outbreak as agency faces big summer in space
- 'Going back to a different planet': Astronauts will return to Earth soon amid the coronavirus pandemic
- NASA unveils plan for Artemis 'base camp' on the moon beyond 2024
- What would Picard do? Investigating disease outbreaks in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
- Chinese rocket sells for $5.6 million in livestreamed auction: report
- SpaceX's Starship SN3 prototype collapses in pressure tank test
- Interstellar Comet Borisov is no longer in one piece
- Look up! Venus and Pleiades star cluster are putting on a rare evening show
- Radiation poses major obstacle to future deep-space astronauts bound for Mars
- You can build your own Earth 2.0 with the awesome website 'Earth-like'
April 2
- 'Star Trek Online' wants you to celebrate First Contact Day with the Borg in new update
- Europe's Mercury-bound BepiColombo will swing past Earth soon! Here's what you need to know.
- NASA asks its employees for new ideas to combat coronavirus
- NASA's famous 'worm' logo crawls back into action on SpaceX rocket
- Zodiacal light: How to spot the rare celestial glow in the night sky
- Constant speed of light: Einstein's theory of special relativity survives a high-energy test
- At Thirty Meter Telescope protest, native Hawaiian elders leave mountain over coronavirus threat
- The sun may kick off a new solar weather cycle this month
- Hubble's best evidence yet for 'missing link' of black holes may solve 14-year-old space mystery
- Shutdowns from coronavirus create blue skies in California, could inform future pollution control
- April is the month of Venus! See the 'evening star' at its brightest
- 1,400-year-old mystery of strange 'red sign' in Japan's sky solved
April 1
- More than 12,000 apply to become an astronaut for NASA's 'Artemis Generation'
- SpaceX readies new Starship prototype for testing (video)
- Locust swarms are invading Africa. Here's how NASA satellites can help stop them.
- Watch NASA's James Webb Space Telescope unfold its golden mirror for the 1st time (video)
- NASA's next robotic moon landings in 2021 still on track despite coronavirus pandemic
- NASA's Mars rover Perseverance rover has a hidden message for the Red Planet
- US military may start moving towards launching fleets of tiny satellites
- For NASA's next sun mission, 6 tiny spacecraft will work as one massive telescope
- Star clusters betray Milky Way's cannibalistic past