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June 11, 2018

NASA extends Juno Jupiter mission until July 2021

NASA's Juno spacecraft will continue studying Jupiter for another three years.

June 11, 2018

New Horizons spacecraft wakes up to prepare for historic flyby of distant object

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has woken up from hibernation to prepare for a historic New Year's Day flyby at the edge of our solar system.

June 5, 2018

Mars Cubesats make history with deep-space maneuver

Two tiny NASA explorers have notched another spaceflight first.

June 5, 2018

The moons of some giant alien planets could host life

Researchers have identified more than 100 giant exoplanets that may have potentially life-hosting moons

June 4, 2018

Galaxy distorted by long-ago collision glows in gorgeous Hubble photo

A misshapen galaxy shines in a newly released photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

June 1, 2018

Apollo 13's importance: How failure can lead to great success

Carie Lemack is co-founder and CEO of DreamUp , the first company to bring space into classrooms and classrooms into space.

May 30, 2018

Could we build the Millennium Falcon from 'Star Wars'?

With so many incredible, newly developing technologies, could we build a real-life Millennium Falcon?

May 30, 2018

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane aces 2nd powered test flight

Virgin Galactic's newest space plane has taken to the skies again.

May 29, 2018

Astronaut Don Peterson, who performed first shuttle spacewalk, dead at 84

Astronaut Donald Peterson, one of the first astronauts to perform a spacewalk from the space shuttle, died on Sunday at the age of 84.

May 29, 2018

Jeff Bezos says we need to leave Earth

The recently anointed richest person in the world, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, says we need to colonize the moon — and time is of the essence.