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June 3, 2016

Did our sun steal 'Planet 9' from another star?

There are eight planets in our solar system, and have been officially ever since Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. But what if there was a ninth planet, billions of miles past Neptune?

June 2, 2016

Facebook Live — from space! Astronauts chat with Mark Zuckerberg

Three space station astronauts chatted live on June 2 with Facebook's founder about experiments and fun in space, the things that training can't prepare you for, and the true astronaut ice cream.

June 2, 2016

Wow! Amazing SpaceX video gives a rocket's-eye view of landing at sea

An amazing new video lets viewers ride along with the SpaceX rocket that landed on a ship at sea last week.

June 1, 2016

Asteroid 2012 DA14: 5 Surprising Facts About Friday's Earth Flyby

While there is no chance that asteroid 2012 DA14 will hit Earth this Friday, the asteroid's flyby is history-making for several other reasons.

June 1, 2016

5 Reasons to Care About Asteroids

Missions to celestial bodies like Mars or the moon may sound more exciting than a mission to a mere asteroid, but scientists say we have much to learn from these irregularly shaped rocks that roll through our solar system.

June 1, 2016

How to Prevent an Asteroid Impact

Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with Earth. Just how would we prevent asteroids from colliding with Earth?

June 1, 2016

Earth-buzzing asteroid worth $195 billion, space miners say

The space rock set to give Earth a historically close shave this Friday, Feb. 15, may be worth nearly $200 billion, prospective asteroid miners say.

June 1, 2016

150-foot asteroid to zoom near Earth this week

An asteroid half the size of a football field will buzz close by Earth on Friday, coming closer than many weather satellites, but there is absolutely no chance the space rock will hit the planet, NASA says.

June 1, 2016

DARPA requests designs for XS-1 military space plane

The U.S. military's plans to build a satellite-launching robotic space plane are moving forward. On May 23, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) put out its official call for proposals for the futuristic space plane design.

May 31, 2016

NASA announces its space 'bounce house' has inflated

The International Space Station has a new piece of real estate -- after technical difficulties last week astronauts have now inflated the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM).