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January 3, 2019

NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman

LAUREL, Md. — A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman.

January 2, 2019

Mysterious 'UFO' spotted over South Carolina ignites speculation about aliens

A mysterious unidentified flying object was spotted over South Carolina's Kiawah Island during the Christmas holiday, prompting speculation about what the object is.

January 2, 2019

Alien planets rich in oxygen may not necessarily be home to life, shocking study says

A new study published in December suggests that exoplanets rich in oxygen may not necessarily contain alien life, despite the fact the element is a critical component for life on Earth.

January 1, 2019

NASA spacecraft captures images of Ultima Thule in farthest flyby of space object in our solar system

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has made a trek to the far reaches of our solar system, zooming past icy Ultima Thule at 32,000 miles per hour in the early hours of New Year's Day. 

January 1, 2019

New Horizons spacecraft makes New Year's Day Flyby of Ultima Thule

January 1, 2019

NASA's New Horizons set to ring in new year with fly-by past icy planetary object

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which has yielded the first close-up views of Pluto, was poised to ring in the new year by flying past the ancient icy object “Ultima Thule” some billions of miles away from Earth.

December 31, 2018

Rare 'super blood Moon' eclipse to put on stunning display in January: What to know

Stargazers will witness a trio of lunar events in the New Year — a total lunar eclipse, a super blood moon and a "wolf moon," an old nickname that follows a full moon that takes place in the middle of winter.

December 31, 2018

NASA to make historic New Year's Day flyby of mysterious 'Ultima Thule'

As 2018 draws to a close and a new year dawns, one group of people plans to celebrate something far more unusual — a flyby of the most distant solar system object ever explored.

December 31, 2018

China pushes for primacy in space

China is poised to realize an ambitious mission to the far side of the moon, the most immediate of many planned milestones in its effort to challenge America’s half-century-long supremacy in space.

December 30, 2018

NASA pioneer Nancy Grace Roman, the 'Mother of Hubble,' dead at 93

Nancy Grace Roman, known as the "mother" of the Hubble Space Telescope and the first woman to hold an executive position at NASA, died on Christmas Day at the age of 93.