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- August 21st
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- Spacewalking Astronauts Install Parking Spot for Private Spaceships at Space Station
- It's Not Too Early to Plan for the Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2024
- A Last-of-Its-Kind Rocket Will Launch a GPS Satellite for the US Military Thursday. How to Watch
- What Is Gravity?
- Watch Live Tonight! Soyuz Rocket Launching Russian Robot to Space Station
- Looks Like Elon Musk Is Serious About Nuking Mars
- NASA 'On Track' to Return Astronauts to the Moon by 2024, VP Pence Says
- Robots Explore 'Mars-Like' Lava Field in Iceland as Prep for NASA's Mars 2020 Rover
- Trump Issues New Launch Guidelines for Nuclear Spacecraft
- Monster 'Loner' Star Causes Scientists to Rethink Supernova Explosions
- If NASA Wants to Land the 1st Woman on the Moon, Her Spacesuit Better Fit
- Working in Silver, Artist Conveys Mystery of Solar Eclipses in New Show
- NASA Rehearses Astronaut Launch — and Rescue — with SpaceX, Boeing (Photos)
- August New Moon 2019: Invisible 'Supermoon' Rises with Jupiter and Saturn
- Pictures from Space! Our Image of the Day
- Snoopy and NASA Discover Space in New McDonald's Happy Meal
- On This Day in Space! Aug. 21, 1914: Total Solar Eclipse Expedition Crashed by WWI
- Russia Launching Humanoid Robot to Space Station Tonight: Watch Live
- Comedian Tig Notaro Talks NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Twitter
- Two Astronauts Are Spacewalking Outside the International Space Station Today! Watch It Live
- NASA's Europa Clipper Mission to Jupiter's Icy Moon Clears Big Hurdle on Path to Launch
- Look Up! Uranus and the Waning Gibbous Moon Share the Sky
- August 20th
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- Nuclear Propulsion Could Be 'Game-Changer' for Space Exploration, NASA Chief Says
- Meet Skybot F-850, the Humanoid Robot Russia Is Launching into Space
- Elon Musk: Revolutionary Private Space Entrepreneur
- New US Space Command Will Launch Next Week, VP Pence Says
- This Weird, Rocky Planet Has No Atmosphere
- NASA Wants Ideas for Private Cargo Ships to Supply a Lunar Gateway
- India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit
- Did a Black Hole Swallow a Neutron Star 900 Million Years Ago?
- Astrobotic's Private Moon Lander Will Launch on a Vulcan Centaur Rocket in 2021
- Vice President Pence Chairs Space Council Meeting Today: Watch It Live
- SpaceX's Starman and Elon Musk's Tesla Have Made a Lap Around the Sun
- August 19th
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- Watch Astronaut Mike Massimino Build a Lego Mars Shuttle in Zero Gravity
- China's Private 'Smart Dragon-1' Rocket Aces 1st Mission
- Let's Talk Asteroid Apophis, Planetary Defense and Elon Musk
- Kerbal Space Program 2 Is Launching in 2020
- China Just Launched a Communications Satellite. Is It in Trouble?
- Here's the Story Behind Rocket Lab's 'Look Ma, No Hands' Launch Name
- Boeing Astronaut Reveals Mission Patches for Starliner Flight Tests
- Hubble Telescope Solves a Galactic Identity Crisis for Quasars
- Space Launch Calendar 2019: Sky Events, Missions & More
- Rocket Lab Electron Booster Launches 4 Satellites Into Orbit
- Space Seagull! Telescope Captures a Celestial Gull in Flight (Video)
- What Secrets Does Titan Hold?
- America's Largest Asteroid Impact Left a Trail of Destruction Across the Eastern United States
- August 18th
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- Rian Johnson's Star Wars Trilogy Aiming 'Beyond the Legacy Characters'
- Marvel's 'Avengers' Heading on 'Epic Space Adventure' This November
- Hubble Telescope Spots Two Galaxies in a Doomed (but Dazzling) Dance
- NASA's Investigating the Impact of Arctic Wildfires on Earth. Here's Why
- NASA Robots Rove Through Caves for Underground DARPA Competition (Video)
- August 17th
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- Kylo Ren Force Grips His Way into 'Star Wars Resistance' Season 2 Trailer
- Space Photos: The Most Amazing Images This Week!
- Top Space Stories of the Week!
- Ewan McGregor in Talks for Obi-Wan Kenobi Show on Disney+: Report
- Hubble Spots Purple 'Jellyfish' Star Glowing in Abyss of Deep Space
- 'Stranger Things' Science: What If You Needed to Know Planck's Constant to Save the World?
- Big Leap by SpaceX's Starship Prototype Pushed to Next Week
- Elon Musk Floats 'Nuke Mars' Idea Again (He Has T-Shirts)
- August 16th
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- 'Krypton' Canceled at Syfy: Report
- NASA Sun Probe Spies the Solar Wind in 1st Birthday Photo
- NASA's Artemis Moon Lander for Astronauts Will Be Born in Alabama's 'Rocket City'
- The Moon Is Brighter Than the Sun in These NASA Gamma-Ray Telescope Views
- Rocket Lab Delays Electron Launch Due to High Winds
- A Doomed Comet Just Fell Into the Sun. Here's the Video.
- Beyond TESS: How Future Exoplanet-Hunters Will Seek Out Strange New Worlds
- Sagittarius Carries a 'Milk Dipper' and 'Teapot' into the Summer Sky
- There Are Thousands of Tardigrades on the Moon. Now What?
- Apollo to OmegA: NASA Signs Over Legacy Launcher for New Rocket
- You Can Watch Rocket Lab Launch 4 Satellites Into Orbit Soon. Here's How.
- Virgin Galactic Inaugurated Its 'Gateway to Space' by Flying 'Eve' Over Spaceport America
- NASA's Next Space Telescope Could Reveal Details About the TRAPPIST-1 Planets, But There's One Problem
- Hawaii's Mauna Kea Observatories Will Reopen After Weeks of Telescope Protests
- August 15th
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- Virgin Galactic Opens 'Gateway to Space' for Tourist Launches at Spaceport America
- The Genius of Albert Einstein: His Life, Theories and Impact on Science
- The Future of Space Design Lands at NYC's Intrepid Museum Friday
- NASA to Seek Review of International Space Station As National Laboratory
- Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser Space Plane Could Launch Astronauts One Day
- Spaceport America: Space Tourism Launch Site
- Citizen Scientists Are Helping Find Alien Planets in NASA's TESS Data
- Satellite Photo Shows China's Military Buildup in Response to Hong Kong Protests
- China's Chang'e-4 Rover Keeps Snapping Stunning Photos of the Moon's Far Side
- How SpaceX's Starship Will Help Establish a Mars Base
- 'Star Trek: Picard' Everything We Know So Far
- Something Weird Is Happening to the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way
- 2nd 'Ad Astra' Trailer Teases More Spectacular Sci-Fi Starring Brad Pitt
- August 14th
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- Fresh Interstellar Dust Discovered in the Snows of Antarctica
- The (Nearly) Full Moon of August 2019 Wowed Astronauts in Space. Here's What YOU Can See
- Private Dream Chaser Space Plane Will Ride New Vulcan Rocket for NASA Cargo Launches
- Glowing Aliens Could Turn Harsh UV Radiation into Beautiful Radiance
- New Timeline for 'Giant Planet Migration' May Rewrite History of Our Solar System
- Jupiter's Strange Core May Have Been Forged by a Colossal Head-On Crash
- LinkSpace Reusable Rocket Prototype Makes Its Highest Flight Yet (And Lands, Too!)
- India's Chandrayaan-2 Spacecraft Leaves Earth Behind for Trip to the Moon
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Scientists Create Millions of Virtual Universes to Understand Cosmic History
- Methane on Mars Isn't Being Released by Wind Erosion
- The Biggest Volcano on Jupiter's Moon Io Is Super Active. But Does It Run Like Clockwork?
- August 13th
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- Europe and Russia Have ExoMars Parachute Problems. It Could Threaten the 2020 Mars Launch
- 'Star Trek: Picard' Actors Reminisce About Their First Trek Experiences
- A NASA Spacecraft Will Snatch Samples of Asteroid Bennu in 2020. Here's 4 Places It May Land
- Perseid Meteor Shower 2019 Dazzles Skywatchers Despite a Bright Moon
- Amazing Photos of the Perseid Meteor Shower 2019
- SpaceX's Elon Musk Endorses Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang
- SpaceX Now Has a 2nd Boat to Catch Rocket Payload Fairings Falling from Space
- Watch NASA's 'Lemur' Robot Climb a Cliff in Death Valley as Practice for Mars
- Weird Star Slows Down Before 'Glitching,' and No One Knows Why
- Watch Live @ 9 pm ET: Perseid Meteor Shower Webcast from Slooh
- August 12th
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- SpaceX's Starship Prototype Could Make Its Biggest Hop Yet This Weekend
- 'Mad' Flat-Earther's Steam Rocket Launch Grounded by Bad Water Heater Bought on Craigslist
- First View of 'Interplanetary Shock' Spotted by NASA Spacecraft
- Meet 'Churymoon'! Photographer Spots Tiny Moon in 2015 Rosetta Comet Photos
- Uranus 'Backs Up' in the Night Sky Ahead This Week's Full Moon
- Cloaked Black Hole Found Hidden Behind Gas Cloud in Early Universe
- Amazon Eyeing Event Horizon TV Show Reboot — Report
- Perseid Meteor Shower 2019: When, Where & How to See It
- Famous 'X-Shaped' Galaxy Isn't Actually X-Shaped
- Nuclear Reactor for Mars Outpost Could Be Ready to Fly by 2022
- Before He Was a Rocket Engineer for Nazi Germany, Von Braun Was a Student Experimenting on Mice
- August 11th
- August 10th
- August 9th
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- 'Mad' Flat-Earther to Launch Himself 5,000 Feet Up on a Homemade Steam Rocket Sunday
- Skywatching Spider Photobombs 2019 Perseid Meteor Shower
- The 2019 Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Soon: Here's What to Expect
- Jupiter: Our Solar System's Largest Planet
- Doomed Planets Around Dead Stars Can 'Broadcast' Their Woes for a Billion Years
- Mysterious, Ancient Radio Signals Keep Pelting Earth. Astronomers Designed an AI to Hunt Them Down.
- Something Just Smacked Jupiter and Here's the Photo to Prove It
- Can We Ever Understand the Size of Red Dwarf Stars?
- Life May Be Common in the Milky Way, Thanks to Comet Swapping
- Hubble Telescope's Gorgeous New Jupiter Views Could Help Demystify Shrinking Great Red Spot
- USRA's Earth from Space Institute Wants to Help Save the World
- August 8th
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- Hail Félicette! French Space Cat Memorial Beginning to Take Shape
- This Next-Gen Spacesuit Could Protect Astronauts on the Moon and Mars
- Dark Matter May Have Existed Before the Big Bang, New Math Suggests
- Bernie Sanders Pledges to Release Any Information About Aliens If He's Elected in 2020: Report
- Martian Merlot? How a Red Wine Compound May Help Us Cope with Mars' Gravity
- Steam-Powered Cubesats Dance in Space as One NASA Spacecraft Commands Its Twin
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe Is Beaming Back Extra Data as it Buzzes the Sun
- SpaceX's Mars-Colonizing 'Starship' Prototype Coming Together in Texas (Photos)
- Space Radiation Will Damage Mars Astronauts' Brains
- The Problems with the Cosmic Calendar
- Atlas V Rocket Launches Advanced Communications Satellite for US Military
- Here's How to Watch an Atlas V Rocket Launch a US Military Satellite Today
- August 7th
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- What Was the Space Race?
- When Will the Sun Die?
- See China's Cool New Rocket Fins in Action!
- Earth's Last Magnetic-Pole Flip Took Much Longer Than We Thought
- See the Moon Near Jupiter (and Twinkly Red Antares, Too!) This Friday
- These Gargantuan Galaxies, Hidden in Plain Sight, Could Rewrite Universe's Early Days
- Why Thousands of Hawaiians (Including Jason Momoa) Are Protesting a Giant Telescope on Mauna Kea
- X-37B Military Space Plane's Latest Mystery Mission Hits 700 Days
- 'All Systems Are Go!' With Timex 'Snoopy In Space' Watch Collection
- Watch SpaceX Catch a Falling Rocket Fairing with a Giant Net (and Boat!) in This Awesome Video
- Report Outlines SpaceX's Plans for Starship Launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center
- How Venus Turned Into Hell, and How the Earth Is Next
- Upcoming Atlas V Mission Will Launch Air Force Cubesat Before It Releases Main Payload
- Shallow Craters on Moon and Mercury May Hide Thick Slabs of Water Ice
- August 6th
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- Twice-Flown SpaceX Rocket Launches Huge Communications Satellite
- Rocket Lab Plans to Snag Falling Boosters with a Helicopter and Refly Them
- In Photos: Ariane 5 Rocket Launches Intelsat 39 and EDRS-C Communications Satellites
- Ariane 5 Rocket Launches 2 New Communications Satellites
- Top 10 Perseid Meteor Shower Facts
- Stunning Photos Show Earth from India's Spacecraft Headed to the Moon
- Thousands of Tardigrades Stranded on the Moon After Lunar Lander Crash
- Cygnus Spacecraft Departs Space Station, Begins New Mission in Orbit
- NASA's Curiosity Rover Still Learning After 7 Years on Mars
- Bits of Corpse from One of the Universe's Oldest Stars Found Inside Its 'Child'
- 'Supergravity' Theorists Win $3 Million Physics Breakthrough Prize
- New Stars on the Cosmic Block Are Fast, Bright and Pulsating
- NASA Calls New Companies for Commercial Lunar Payloads
- Watch Live Tuesday: 2 Rocket Launches and a Space Station Cargo Ship's Departure
- Hubble Captures Spiral Galaxy with 'Barrier' of Dust (Photo)
- Russia Launches 4th and Final 'Blagovest' Military Communications Satellite
- August 5th
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- See the Elusive Planet Mercury in the Dawn Sky This August
- Happy Birthday, Neil Armstrong! Apollo 11 Moonwalker Would Have Been 89 Today
- Curiosity Rover Celebrates 7 Years Since Thrilling Mars Touchdown
- NASA Seeks 'Industrialization' of Low Earth Orbit with ISS Commercialization Strategy
- GOES-17 Instrument Problem Blamed on Blocked Heat Pipe
- DoubleTree Offers Limited Edition 'Cookies in Space' Tin Ahead of First Zero-G Bake
- Tiny Robot 'Bumbles' Through the Air Aboard Space Station
- SpaceX Aims for Tuesday Launch of Israeli Communications Satellite Amos-17
- This Impact Crater Was Likely Ground Zero for an Ancient Mega-Tsunami on Mars
- From Apollo to Artemis — How Astronaut Food May Change When We Return to the Moon
- E.T. Hunt Shouldn't Be Limited to Earth-like Life, Scientists Say
- August 4th
- August 3rd
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- SpaceX Delays Launch of Amos-17 Communications Satellite for Israel's Spacecom
- 'Shaun the Sheep' Completes Astronaut Training for Sci-Fi Film
- NASA's TESS Exoplanet Hunter Goes Above and Beyond in Mission's 1st Year
- A Tiny Chinese Lunar Orbiter Just Crashed on the Moon's Far Side (on Purpose)
- If Aliens Are Flashing Laser Beams at Us, We Now Have a Way to Detect Them
- August 2nd
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- An Asteroid Bigger Than the Empire State Building Will Pass Earth Soon. But Don't Worry
- France Is Launching a 'Space Force' with Weaponized Satellites
- 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' Getting 40th Anniversary Re-Release
- In Photos: SpaceX's Amazing CRS-18 Dragon Flight for NASA!
- Who Will Be the First Woman on the Moon?
- Night Sky, August 2019: What You Can See This Month [Maps]
- Satellites Go with the Flow in This Amazingly Accurate Map of Antarctica's Ice
- Chinese Long March Rocket Launch Tests Grid Fins for Safety, Future Reusability
- How 'Ploonets' Tell Us About Planet Formation
- Apollo Moon Buggies Earn Landmark Status in Washington City
- India's Chandrayaan-2 Mission to the Moon in Photos
- 'Volcano of Water' Turns into a Lightning Rod in This Electrifying Image
- August 1st
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- It's Good! Hubble Telescope Scores Big with Football-Shaped Alien Planet
- Epic '80s Sci-Fi Miniseries 'V' Remastered and Available on Blu-Ray
- The Brightest Visible Planets in August's Night Sky: How to See them (and When)
- Waxing Nostalgic About Apollo 11? Neil and Buzz Land at Madame Tussauds' Space Exhibit!
- 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Is Coming to Hulu
- This 3D Map of the Milky Way Is the Best View Yet of Our Galaxy's Warped, Twisted Shape
- NASA Chief Says Moon 2024 Plans Won't Rob Funds from Space Station
- Peering at History from Orbit: 'Archaeology From Space' Author Talks New Book
- What Is a Dyson Sphere?
- Giant Magellan Telescope Project Finishes 2nd Primary Mirror
- 2019 Full Moon Calendar
- Moon Rocks and Lunar Meteorite Are the Stars in This NYC Exhibit
- Scientists Just Built a Mini-Sun in a Lab That Emits 'Plasma Burps'
- Feel the Burn! Watch NASA's 2020 Mars Rover Do a Bicep Curl (Video)
- 'The Expanse' Gets a Season 5 with Amazon (And Season 4's Coming in Hot!)
- 'Snowball' Planets Might Be Better Abodes for Life Than We Thought
- Best Night Sky Events of August 2019 (Stargazing Maps)