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- July 31
- July 30
- July 29
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- Black Holes' Cosmic 'Choir Singers' Finally Identified
- Barbie Goes Cosmic in 'Star Light Adventure' This Weekend
- Will the Great Attractor Destroy Us?
- Venus Will Soon Unleash Its Brilliant (Evening) Star Power in the Sky
- The Ultimate in Astronomy Gadgets: GOTO Telescopes
- Watch SpaceX's 1st Test-Fire of a Used Falcon 9 Rocket
- 'Star Trek: Discovery': Is the New Starship Named for NASA's Space Shuttle?
- George Takei, William Shatner Help NASA Celebrate Apollo 11 Anniversary
- Simple Exoplanet Calculation Describes Alien Atmospheres in a Flash
- Milky Way Shines in Orange Over Mauna Kea (Photo)
- New Space Boots Vibrate to Help Astronauts Navigate
- July 28
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- Mysterious Baby Star Throws a Tantrum... Alone
- Otherworldly Beauty: Astronomy Photography Contest Highlights Astounding Shots
- First Launch of NASA's New Megarocket On Track for 2018
- US Air Force's Next Space Surveillance System on Target for 2021
- The Hunt for Exoplanets Turns to Earth's Backyard
- Amazing Fireball Over Western US Caused by Chinese Space Junk
- Launch Photos: Secret Spy Satellite NROL-61 Blasts Off On Atlas V Rocket
- New American Spy Satellite Launches on Secret Mission
- Apollo Astronaut Study Reveals Greater Heart Risk for Deep-Space Travelers
- Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016: Amazing Photos
- MeerKAT Telescope Opens Its Eyes to Hundreds of New Galaxies
- Space Station Drives 'Star Trek' Fiction Toward Reality: NASA Video
- Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: Watch Live on Slooh Webcast
- 'Aquanauts' Study Space Living from Under the Sea
- July 27
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- The Spacecraft Designs of Arthur C. Clarke (Space.com Exclusive)
- Whip It Good! Star's Radiation Beam Sparks Cosmic Light Show
- Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Also Red Hot, Study Shows
- Goodbye Philae: Comet Lander Comm Link Switched Off
- Jack White's Label to Play Record in Near-Space Saturday
- Saturn Gets Warped! NASA Spots Bizarre Bend in Rings
- Mars Colonists Must 'Live Off the Land': NASA Report
- Astronaut Mark Kelly to Speak at Democratic National Convention Today
- Facebook Reports Successful Flight of Full-Scale Internet-Delivery Drone
- July 26
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- New Space Startup Audacy Shoots for the Moon
- Career Launch: 50-Foot Rocket Built By Students Breaks Records
- Incredible! Skywatcher Captures Colorful Rainbow Airglow Over Azores Island
- 'The Hubble Cantata' Weds Live Music with VR Views of the Cosmos
- The Pluto Discovery Telescope Needs YOUR Help
- Ice Volcanoes May Have Erased Craters on Dwarf Planet Ceres
- Apollo 15: First Moon Buggy Celebrates 45th Anniversary
- 1.2 Million Galaxies Dot Largest Ever 3D Map
- Sun Blasts Out 2016's Strongest Flare (Video)
- July 25
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- Abandon Ship! 'Star Trek' Loves to Destroy the Enterprise
- X Marks the Spot: Twitter-Born Collaboration Illuminates Milky Way Structure
- In Memoriam: Longtime Night Sky Columnist Geoff Gaherty
- How Many Suns Can a Planet Have?
- Sally Ride, Mae Jemison Among 'Women of NASA' Proposed as Lego Minifigs
- CBS's New 'Star Trek: Discovery' Series Full Title, First Ship Footage Revealed
- Mars 2020 Rover Mission to Cost More Than $2 Billion
- Moon 'Snuggles Up' to the Hyades (and Hides Aldebaran) Friday Morning
- Space Trivia! 'Star Trek Beyond' Stars Test Their NASA Knowledge
- Stacking Dolls in Space: Concentric Bubbles Seen Around Star Cluster
- July 23
- July 22
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- Strange Cinema: Space.com's Favorite Off-Beat Space Movies
- Why Do We Love Space Movies?
- What If the Moon Disappeared Tomorrow?
- 'Star Trek Beyond' Features Clever War Games, Too Many Questions (Film Review)
- How Big Bang Shaped Civilization: 'Deep Time' Documentary Premieres
- US Middle School's 'Space Potatoes' Win International Rocketry Challenge
- Love of 'Star Trek' Inspires Highly Illogical Careers
- July 21
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- Watch Earth Spin Through a Full Year in This Spectacular Time-Lapse Video
- Rare Meteorites May Explain Mercury's Puzzling Surface Features
- Pew! Pew! Pew! Mars Rover Curiosity Can Now Fire Laser On Its Own
- New Image from Luc Besson's 'Valerian' Space Epic Unveiled at SDCC 2016
- 'Futurama' Gang Coming Back in Live-Action Fan Film (Video)
- DigitalGlobe Says WorldView-2 Satellite Operational After 'Debris Causing Event'
- When Viking Was Voyager: The Surprising History Behind NASA's Epic Mars Landing
- Hottest Year Ever? 2016 Burns Through Heat Records, NASA Says
- Space Explorers From Around the World to Land in Houston for 2019 Meeting
- Move Over, 'Star Trek' — Hubble Telescope Sees the Real Final Frontier
- 'Star Trek Beyond' in Photos (Gallery)
- Dark Matter Still a Mystery: Most Sensitive Search Yet Comes Up Empty
- Planets, a Star and a Comet: Four Celestial Bodies Meet in Stunning Skywatching Image
- Giant Mountains On Venus May Cause Its Weird Weather Patterns
- Astronaut Eileen Collins Calls for US Space Leadership at GOP Convention
- July 20
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- Jeff Bezos' 'Star Trek' Cameo Takes Billionaire Space Battle to Final Frontier
- Long-Ago Giant Impact May Have Created Moon's Mysterious Grooves
- 2 'Nearby' Exoplanets Confirmed to Be Rocky — and May Be Habitable
- Blue Origin's Crew Capsule Aced Parachute-Failure Test, Jeff Bezos Says
- Kepler Adds 100 to Galaxy's Planet Count
- Smithsonian Debuts Neil Armstrong Gloves, Reveals Apollo 11 3D Model
- Eileen Collins, 1st Female Shuttle Commander, to Speak at GOP Convention Tonight
- Apollo 11 Moon Documentary Launches on Decades Network Today
- Got It! Astronauts Capture SpaceX Dragon Supply Ship at Space Station
- Viking at 40: How NASA Mission Brought Mars Into the Light
- Parachutes, Sky Cranes and More: 5 Ways to Land On Mars
- Viking on Mars, 40 Years Later: Reflections on Pioneering the Red Planet
- July 19
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- Pluto Stamp Aboard NASA's New Horizons Probe Sets Guinness World Record
- Europe Plans Euro-Russian Moon Exploration To Go Beyond Apollo 'Gift Shop Visit'
- Republican Platform Endorses Commercial Space Partnerships
- Orbiting Buddy Could Join Curiosity 2.0 at Mars
- NASA Seeking Ideas for Use of Space Station Docking Port
- Crater 'Cold Traps' May Hide Ice On Dwarf Planet Ceres
- Viking 1: The Historic First Mars Landing in Pictures
- 'Monolith of Phobos': Q&A with Sean Ono Lennon on His New 'Cosmic' Rock Album
- Full Moon of July 2016 Rises Tonight: See Its Many Names
- Perseid Sideshows: Smaller Meteor Showers Shine This Summer
- See the Sun Flip Out in Wild New Satellite View
- Apollo 11 Flight Plan for 1st Moon Landing Getting Crowdfunded Re-Issue
- Robotic Russian Supply Ship Arrives at Space Station
- July 18
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- 2 Newfound Alien Planets May Be Capable of Supporting Life
- Watch All 5 SpaceX Rocket Landings in This Epic Video
- 'Air Conditioning' Could Make Exoplanets Habitable
- NEOWISE Boosts Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Finds
- Kickstarter Project Aims to 'Back Up Humanity' in Cosmic Cloud
- SpaceX Aims to Relaunch Landed Dragon Capsule in Early 2017
- Spectacular Emission Nebulas Captured in Photos
- Sunspot Surprise: Dark Features Form More Slowly Than Thought
- Photos: SpaceX Launches Cargo Mission, Lands Rocket Again
- No. 5! SpaceX Lands Another Rocket During Space Station Cargo Launch
- July 17
- July 16
- July 15
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- Exploring the Realm of Saturn with Mobile Astronomy Apps
- NASA Is Ready to Start Building Its Life-Hunting 2020 Mars Rover
- Britain Selects US, French, British Teams to Study Spaceport Feasibility
- Three Years Later, Reaction Engines Gets Promised UK Investment in Rocket Technology
- Fishing for Space Junk: Europe's Wild Idea to Clean the Cosmos
- Space.com's 'Star Trek' Marathoner Beams Into 'Random Trek' Podcast
- China Readies Next Space Lab for September Launch
- 'Land' on Pluto's Icy Plains in This Amazing New NASA Video
- Sun Makes Nervous Face with Hole in Its Head (Video)
- July 14
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- First Female Shuttle Commander to Speak at GOP Convention
- SETI Seeks Ideas to Hunt Strange Alien Lifeforms
- Pluto Flyby Turns One! New Horizons Mission Celebrates Anniversary
- U-F-NO! NASA Shoots Down Speculation Over Space Station Video
- In-flight Plan Used by 1st American in Orbit John Glenn Heads to Auction
- Get Ready for the Perseid Meteor Shower!
- SpaceX to Launch Vital New Spaceship Docking Port for Space Station
- New Type of Black Hole Spotted in the Early Universe
- Star Trek's George Takei Talks Space Travel and More with Space.com (Video)
- July 13
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- Massive Florida Algae Bloom Can Be Seen from Space
- Sierra Nevada Corp. Completes 1st Milestone on ISS Commercial Cargo Contract
- Sirens of Titan: Flying Aerobot Drone Could Soar Over Saturn Moon
- In Cosmic First, Scientists Spy a Star's Snow Line
- Einstein's 'Time Dilation' Spread Age Gap for Astronaut Scott Kelly & His Twin
- Moon Express Takes Over Delta 2 Rocket Launch Site in Cape Canaveral
- Salty Streaks of Flowing Water Could Morph Mars' Surface
- July 12
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- Juno Spacecraft Captures 1st Photo from Jupiter Orbit
- As Monster Black Hole Feeds, a Slow-Motion Jet Is Born
- The Milky Way and a Green Comet Amaze Amateur Astronomer (Photo)
- The US Navy's Newest Satellite Suffers Glitch Following Launch
- Behold, Saturn! Planet's Rings and Moon Tethys Shine in Awesome Photo
- Ice Ages Make Outer Edge of 'Habitable Zone' a Tough Place for Life
- Photobomb! Satellite Catches Moon Crossing Earth's Face (Video)
- This Deepest View Ever of the Orion Nebula Reveals Hidden Objects
- What Would It Be Like to Play 'Pokémon Go' in Space?
- July 11
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- Mars Rover Curiosity Bounces Back from Glitch
- New 'Star Trek' Exhibit Lets You Join Starfleet Academy
- The Starfleet Academy Experience: Inside the Intrepid ꞌStar Trekꞌ Exhibit (Photos)
- Monstrous 'Frankenstein Galaxy' Made from Cosmic Spare Parts
- New Dwarf Planet Discovered Far Beyond Pluto's Orbit
- Astronaut-Turned-Artist Nicole Stott Shares View from Space in Paintings
- Moonwalker Neil Armstrong to be Featured on Mural in Downtown Cincinnati
- Did Supernova Explosion Contribute to Earth Mass Extinction?
- Now Is the Best Time to Observe the Moon This Month
- July 9
- July 8
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- S.S. Alan Poindexter: Orbital ATK Freighter Named for Late Shuttle Astronaut
- Wakey Wakey! Juno Spacecraft Turns on Science Gear at Jupiter
- Old Eyes on the Sky: Touring Harvard's Shuttered Oak Ridge Observatory
- Touring Oak Ridge Observatory (Photos)
- New Equation Tallies Odds of Life Beginning
- See Jupiter and the Moon Team Up in Friday's Night Sky
- Shining Silver-Blue Clouds Captured in Night Sky Photo
- Gorgeous New Hubble Photo Reveals 'Beating Heart' of Crab Nebula
- July 7
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- Photos: Amazing Views of the Famous Crab Nebula
- Super Typhoon Nepartak Spied from Space (Photos)
- Water Clouds Found Outside the Solar System — a First
- Three's Company: Newly Discovered Planet Orbits a Trio of Stars
- NASA Negotiated Discounts After SpaceX Launch Failure
- The Epic Spaceships of 'Independence Day: Resurgence'
- One Year After Kickoff, OneWeb Says Its 700-Satellite Constellation is On Schedule
- Cool Your Jets: Cold Eruption from Black Hole is First of Its Kind
- New Crew Launches on Two-Day Journey to Space Station
- July 6
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- 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year
- Mars Rover Curiosity in 'Safe Mode' After Glitch
- Lost Japanese Spacecraft Shares Groundbreaking View of Galaxy Group
- China Finishes Building World's Largest Radio Telescope
- New Crew Begins 2-Day Journey to Space Station Tonight: Watch Liftoff Live
- The Fabulous Lives of Nebulas
- Station-Bound NASA Astronaut is the 60th Woman to Fly into Space
- Today's Journey to Space Station Will Take Longer Than Usual
- July 5
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- Black Holes' Inner Secrets Revealed — with Math
- Chemistry on Titan Could Lay the Groundwork for Life
- Astronauts, Aviators Celebrate National Air and Space Museum's 40 Years
- Jupiter Probe Captures First-Ever View of Moons Moving (Video)
- Moon-Cargo Poster Rockets Past Fundraising Goal
- Real-Life Holodeck? 'Star Trek' Tech Uses VR to Solve Global Problems
- Tomb with a View: Ancient Burial Sites Served as 'Telescopes'
- Sun-Stripped Mars Can Help NASA's MAVEN Provide Exoplanet Insights
- Google Doodle Celebrates Juno's Jupiter Arrival
- NASA, Juno Team Exult in Successful Jupiter Arrival
- By Jove! NASA Probe Arrives at Jupiter After 5-Year Trek
- July 4
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- One Last View of Jupiter: Juno Snaps Photo Ahead of Tonight's Orbit Insertion
- Juno Probe's Jupiter Arrival Tonight Fraught With Peril
- Red Planet Impact: Huge Moons May Have Crashed Into Mars
- Juno Spacecraft's July 4 Jupiter Arrival: Complete Mission Coverage
- Lego Minifigures on NASA's Juno Jupiter Probe Inspire Design Challenge
- Cosmic Fireworks: Hubble Snaps Stunning Photo of 'Skyrocket' Galaxy
- Fastest-Ever Spacecraft to Arrive at Jupiter Tonight
- July 3
- July 2
- July 1
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- It's Official! NASA Pluto Probe to Fly by Another Object in 2019
- Meteorite Minerals Reveal Unexpected Collisions in the Early Solar System
- Terrence Malick's 'Voyage of Time' Highlights History of the Cosmos
- Hunting for Alien Exoplanets with Mobile Astronomy Apps
- Syfy's 'Dark Matter' Is Even Darker for Tonight's Season 2 Premiere
- NASA's Dawn Probe Ends Primary Mission, May Visit 3rd Cosmic Object
- The Brightest Planets in July's Night Sky: How to See them (and When)
- Going Deeper: Syfy's 'Killjoys' Returns Friday for Season 2
- Songs to Orbit Jupiter By: NASA, Apple Link Musicians to Juno Mission
- First Look at Air and Space Museum's New 'Milestones of Flight' Hall
- Juno's Jupiter Arrival Continues String of July 4 Spaceflight Milestones
- Juno Probe Now on Autopilot Ahead of July 4 Jupiter Arrival
