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In a Week of Space Tragedy Anniversaries, We Must Continue to Venture Onward
The Broad Strokes of Jupiter
Make America Gagged Again
Juno Makes Another Pass at Jupiter
Curiosity Finds An(other) Alien Visitor on Mars
If You Need Strength Today, Be Like Daphnis
Saturn’s Moon Daphnis Creates Spectacular Ripples in Saturn’s Rings
2016 Was the Hottest Year on Record
Apollo Astronaut Gene Cernan Has Died at 82
SpaceX Returns to Flight
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled High-Mass Stars …
The Clouds of Andromeda
Talk Nerdy: Anti-Science, Trump, and Why I Hope Science Will Help Save the World
My God. It’s Full of Black Holes.
A Distant View of Home
That’s No Ordinary Taco. It’s a SPACE Taco.
New Study Confirms Sea Surface Temperatures Are Warming Faster Than Previously Thought
The Snows of … Hawaii?
Seeing Through a Cloudy Lens
Deep Field
Happy New Tropical Earth Orbital Period! Kinda!
2017: Wait Just a Second
Amazing Illusion: Invisibility Cloak
Our Magnificent Moon
A Fog Dome Rises in the Night
Vera Rubin, Discoverer of Dark Matter, Has Died
Video Preview of Cassini’s Saturn Endgame
By the Light of the Silvery Lunar Fogbow
The Photons Came Down the Chimney With Care
Venus Commands the Sky Over Frozen Waves
The Expanse Expanded
Antimatter Is Starting to Yield Its Secrets
What Happens When the Camera Faces the Other Way During a SpaceX Landing?
Happy December Solstice!
Another Day, Another Anti-Science Trump Pick For Federal Office
The Protoplanet Ceres: Water, Water, Everywhere
Trump Adviser Turns the Anti-Science Up to 11
Three News Stories About Humans in Space
Baby Exoplanets Carve Grooves Into Their Nursery
So Here’s Another Thing Global Warming Causes: Catastrophic Glacial Avalanches
The Endgame at Saturn Begins
The Mysterious Case of a Nonexistent Alien Planet Discovered 160 Years Ago
John Glenn, the First American to Orbit the Earth, Has Died at 95
An Island of Stars in a Sea of Stars
The Universe Voids Itself, and Einstein Predicted It
An Irregular Mystery
Follow-Up: Why the House Science Committee’s Climate Change Denial Is So Wrong
The House (Anti-)Science Committee Strikes Again
Russian Resupply Rocket Lost During Launch
How the Moon Got Its Weird
Another Jumping Sun Dog
A (Frozen) Great Lake of Water Is Found Beneath the Surface of Mars
Follow-Up: More on Trump’s Catastrophic Plan to Gut NASA’s Earth Science
Starry Starry Swing
Jupiter Unwrapped
Happy Thanksgoating
Trump’s Plan to Eliminate NASA Climate Research Is Ill-Informed and Dangerous
Mars Is Going Through a Bit of a Dry Spell. How Do We Know? Rusty Meteorites.
No, There’s No “Huge Blue Globe” in Front of the Sun (Sigh)
What the Heck Is Going on at the North Pole?
This Is NOT the Milky Way. Except It Is.
Zen Pencils Takes on Science, Religion, and Relativity
The Supermoon and Global Warming: A Taste of Things to Come
Ice Crystals Above Clouds Dance to the Tune of Electricity
An Eerie Hex on Saturn
So, About Today’s Supermoon …
Time Lapse: Refraction
Trump’s Cabinet: Yeah, It’s Probably Even Worse Than You Imagined
The Colors of Stars: Red vs. Blue
A Dark Day
I’m With Saturn
I’m Voting for Hillary Clinton
Ashes to Stars, Dust to Dust
Mars Spins as the Earth Laps It Around the Sun
Able Was I, Ere I Saw Oxo Crater
What Do Astronomers Mean When They Say an Object “Is in a Constellation”?
Thera Incognita
Carving the Orion Nebula
Global Weirding
Water Clouds Over a Rogue Planet
The Galactic Eye of Sauron
Oh, Right. WE LIVE INSIDE A GALAXY.
Ethereal Gravity Wave Clouds Flow Over Colorado
The Raging Beauty of Monsoons
The Sun’s Motion Reflected in the Universe
How Just Three Stars Light Up a Stellar Nursery
Astronomers X-Ray Colliding Galaxies to Find a Pair of Monster Black Holes
A Year of Record Heat
Mars Lander Impact Site Seen From Orbit
Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star, Who Wrote You? ’Twas Not Mozart.
The Lone Icy Volcano of Ceres
How Big Is Proxima Centauri’s Planet?
A Spiral Galaxy Defying the Cosmic Flow
NASA Sets Sight on Mars. I Just Hope Its Aim Is True.
The Sky Is Filled With Galaxies
Earthrise, From the Moon
S Marks the Spot of a Planet Being Born Around Another Star
Time’s Arrow Explained by Minute Physics
Would You Vote for Someone Who Thinks the Earth Is Flat?
Deep Sky Colors: A Gorgeous Astrophotography Book
As Hurricane Matthew Hits Florida, What Will It Do to NASA?
Blue Origin Tests Its Rocket Escape System in a VERY Dramatic Way
Arctic Ice Reaches Second Lowest Extent on Record
How Big Can a Black Hole Get?
Goodnight, Rosetta
Chairman of Illusions
Sentinel-1A Satellite Slammed by Space Debris
Elon Musk Wants to Put a Million People on Mars
The First Photo of the Sun
Astrophoto: Dusty Star Birth and Future Spectacular Death in the Swan
Passing a Kidney Stone Can Be a Real Roller Coaster Ride
No, NASA Didn’t Change Your Astrological Sign
Infinity Squared: An Astonishing Video of the Night Sky
Shaking Hands With Pele
An Exploding Volcano Slowed Global Warming. Briefly.
Rosetta’s Final Resting Place Has Been Chosen
March … I Mean April … I Mean May … I Mean June … I Mean July... I
Mean August 2016 Is the Sixth … I Mean Seventh … I Mean Eighth … I Mean
Ninth … I Mean 10th … I Mean 11th Temperature Record-Breaking Month in a
Row
What Is the Largest Galaxy in the Universe?
Does Climate Change Affect Our Weather? Yes. Yes, It Does.
Retro Posters Promote an Ancient Battle: Humans vs. Disease
Blue Origin Will Test Its Capsule Abort System ... in Flight!
I Didn’t Even Know Mars Had a Southwest
To Beat Trump, Clinton Needs to Bring Science to the Debates
Xkcd Takes on Global Warming
This Illusion Knows When You Are Looking at It
Watch Evolution Occur Before Your Eyes
Down Under and Spinning the Wrong Way
Hank Green Tells You How to Register to Vote
Thursday Night, NASA Launches a Mission to Sample an Asteroid ... and Bring a
Piece of It Back to Earth
Jupiter, the (Surprising and Weird) King of the Planets
Philae Has Been Found on the Comet’s Surface!
The Great Kersten Blunder Blunder
Time-Lapse: Hades Exhales
Beams From the Setting Sun Cast Their Way Across the Sky
SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad During Fueling
A Monster Galaxy Hiding in Plain Sight
No, We Almost Certainly Did Not Detect an Alien Signal
Astronomers Find Three Exploded Stars Nested Like Russian Dolls
Grasping Climate Change
Goaturday
Venus and Jupiter Kiss This Weekend
Follow-Up: Just How Hot Was July 2016?
Astronomers Discover a New Planet Orbiting the Closest Star to the Sun!
Super Slow-Motion Beauty of SpaceX Rockets
Global Warming Has Now Made the Northwest Passage a Thing
The Day a Cloud Wore a Cheery Hat
A Cosmic Flower Blooms and Sends Its Seeds Into the Void
So What Exactly Is an “Alien Megastructure”?
Trump’s VP Mike Pence Wants to Teach That Old Time Religion in Public Schools
No, That’s Not a Picture of Antarctica From Space
March … I Mean April … I Mean May … I Mean June … I mean July 2016
Is the 6th … I Mean 7th… I Mean 8th … I Mean 9th… I Mean 10th
Temperature Record-Breaking Month in a Row
Chemtrails? Nope.
NASA Video Shows Meteor Shower … From Above!
When the Sun Never Sets
ORION. Holy Wow, Orion.
A Chance to See Moons Around the Exoplanet Beta Pic B in 2017
I Still Still Don’t Think It’s Aliens, but Tabby’s Star Keeps Getting Weirder
NASA High Definition Camera Creates Stunning Slo-Mo Rocket Booster Footage
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson: Lack of Global Warming Is “Scientifically Proven.”
Yeah, About That …
The Complicated Trajectory to Understand a Comet
Iridescent Sunset Mammatus
Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Aug. 11 and 12 with a Possible Strong Outburst!
Senior House Republican Says Earth Is Cooling
SpaceX Fires Up a Second-Hand Booster
Blue Origin Test Flight Was a Successful Failure. Literally, in Fact.
The Milky Way Crosses Its Heart … With a Galactic X
Help Make Women NASA Lego Minifigs a Reality
Days of Wine and Redwoods and SCIENCE
Re-Entering Chinese Rocket Booster Lights Up Western United States Skies
The Corpse of a Dead Star Zaps Its Companion With a Death Ray
Why Doesn’t Ceres Have Any Really Big Craters?
Asteroid Collisions Create a Forbidden Crystal
More Evidence That Dinosaurs Suffered a One-Two Extinction Punch
Time Lapse: The Skies Over Dry Tortugas
Rosetta’s Final Resting Place Has Been Chosen
EPIC Earth: A Year of Days From Space
These Are the Antiheroes We Don’t Deserve
March … I Mean April … I Mean May … I Mean June 2016 Is the 6th … I
Mean 7th… I Mean 8th … I Mean 9th Temperature Record-Breaking Month in a
Row
The GOP Fiddles While America Burns
Hubble Takes a Long Look Into the Heart of the Crab
Throwing Shade on a Comet
Greenland Is Still Melting Away
A Moment of Clarity in the Milky Way
Time-Lapse: Vorticity
A Beauty That Hides a Beast
Pluto + 1: A Year After New Horizons Made It a World
What Do You Do With a Problem Like Space Debris?
Juno’s First Light
Moon Photobombs Earth
“Clean” Coal? Yeah, Not So Much.
Measles Outbreak in Arizona Likely Fueled by Vaccine Refusals
An Alien Planet Orbits in a Triple-Star System … and We Have Photos
Namibian Milky Way
A Gathering Storm
We Have to Be Better Than This
Looking Down on the International Space Station. Literally.
I’m a Loner, Dottie. A Dwarf Galaxy.
Follow-Up: Jupiter’s Moons Dance as Juno Approached
Jupiter Has a New Moon. And We Put It There.
Happy Fourth of July!
A Cosmic Tadpole Swims Into Hubble’s View
The Cliffs of Charon
Jupiter Looms Ahead for Juno
The GOP’s Denial of Science Primed Them for the Illogic of Trump
Using the Most Violent Explosions in the Universe to Measure Its Size
Small Meteorite Punches Through Roof of House in Thailand
Stealthy Black Hole Spotted by Accident
Comets Scoff at Gravity
A Sunday Morning Brain Teaser For You
The Stars at Night Are Big and Bright … Deep in the Heart of the Milky Way.
Neptune Just Got a Little Dark
Does Pluto Harbor an Ocean Under All That Ice?
On the Ball of the Midnight Sun
Two Baby Alien Worlds Show Us How to Cook a Planet
Happy Full Moon Solstice!
March … I Mean April… I Mean May 2016 Is the Sixth … I Mean
Seventh… I Mean Eighth Temperature Record-Breaking Month in a Row
ExoMars Sees Mars
Blue Origin to Test Rocket Parachute Failure Sunday Morning
Another Moon for Earth? Well, Not Really, but It Depends on Your Point of
View.
LIGO Bags Another Binary Black Hole Burst
A Dying Star Metamorphoses Into a Butterfly
Will SpaceX Be on Its Way to Mars by 2018? Maybe. But That’s Not the Point.
Orlando: What Can You Do in the Face of Another Senseless Gun Tragedy?
Akatsuki Reveals a Hot, Dynamic Venus
A Heavy Metal Cosmic Whodunit
Oh, THAT’S What Those Bright Spots on Ceres Look Like
“This Is Discovery”
The Fuse Is Lit. Point and Laugh, or Run for Your Lives?
Four More Place Settings at the Periodic Table
Photographer’s Quick Thinking Captures a SpaceX Rocket Descending to Earth
The White Spots on Ceres Aren’t the Only Weird Thing There
How Did Supermassive Black Holes Get So, Well, Supermassive?
When It Comes to NASA, Polarized Politics Need Not Apply
A Strip of Pluto
What Causes Stripey Clouds?
Fireball: Couch-Sized Rock Lights Up the Sky Over Arizona
Breathe Deep Pluto's Gathering Gloom
Scientists Stand Up To Congressional Attacks
King Tut Had a Dagger That Fell From Space
Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert Will Save Us From Gay Space Colonies
Having a Gassy Neighbor Is Beautiful
Mammatus Mia!
Lies Trump Reality
Ride Along With a SpaceX Rocket Back to Earth
Come See Me at Star Trek: Mission New York
A Physics Outsider Says NASA Asteroid Scientists Are All Wrong. Is He Right?
(Spoiler: No)
A Silhouette of Cold, Dusty Galactic Fingers
Update: Mysterious Martian Plumes May Be From a Solar Storm and Not an
Impending Invasion
A Cold Ribbon Where Future Stars Are Born
These Dunes Are the Pits. Or Vice Versa.
Jupiter May Be Hit by a Half-Dozen Visible Asteroid Impacts Every Year
A Dozen (or So) Ways to Die in Space
Now’s a Good Time to Look Up as Mars Looks Back at You With Its Red,
Baleful Eye
Of Course Trump Chose a Global Warming Denier as His Energy Adviser
Cards Against Humanity Just Paid for a Young Woman’s College Tuition
White Spots Blemish the Face of Ceres
A Fantastic Optical Illusion: Just Another Brick in the Wall?
Watch the Expansion of Debris Hurled Into Space by a Supernova
Sunrise on a Crater Rim
March … I mean April 2016 Is the Sixth … I Mean Seventh Temperature
Record-Breaking Month in a Row
Astronomers Take the Measure of a Monster Black Hole
Kinked Vortices
JWST Preps for Its Cameras
A Map That Goes Medieval on Mars
Reminder: There’s Still Space Left for Science Luau 2016
Ken Ham Really Doesn’t Understand Science
Cassini Takes a Last Close Look at Epimetheus
Huge New Bounty of Exoplanets Found, Including Nine in the Goldilocks Zone
Transit Transit
Sic Transit Gloria Mercury
When Science Reporting Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong
The Highs and Lows of Mercury
Reminder: How to Watch Monday’s Transit of Mercury
Colonizing Venus
SpaceX Nailed Its Most Difficult Landing Yet
Did a Super-Mega-Ultra Neutrino Come From a Black Hole Gobbling Down Matter
10 Billion Light-Years Away?
How to Watch the Rare Transit of Mercury Across the Sun on Monday
JWST’s Mirrors’ Golden Glow
Jimmy Kimmel: Climate Hero
Three Earth-Size Planets Found Orbiting a Nearby Ultracool Star
SpaceX Wants to Go to Mars—and It Actually Can
A Galaxy Hidden in Plain Sight
The Earth Is Getting Greener … but That’s Not a Good Sign
360° View of the SpaceX Booster Ocean Landing
No, Saturn Won’t Be Huge in the Sky on May 1
The Warped Path to Understanding the Universe
Climate Change Is Strangling Our Oceans
A Moon for Makemake
An Emerald Green Comet and a Billion Stars
Five Days in Paradise: Come to Science Luau 2016
A Martian Crater Torn in Half
A Twice-Lit Moon Kisses the Horizon
Valley of the Cosmos
Noon on a Comet
A Seriously MASSIVE Bubble Blown in Space Celebrates Hubble’s 26th
Anniversary
Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane … Actually, It’s a
Bird and a Rocket.
The Future Is Here: A Festival Celebrating Science and Science Fiction
So Maybe Not Aliens, but How About Comets?
A Sooty Cosmic Spider
Optical Illusion: Are These Lines Moving, or Is This a Spinning Square?
How Do You Get Better Science in TV And Movies? You Have to SEE.
The Taste of Alien Dust
Spectacular Drone Ship (and Rocketcam!) View of SpaceX Booster Landing
The New World: March 2016 Is the Sixth Temperature Record-Breaking Month in a
Row
A Tale of Three Jupiters, Part 4: Great Jupiter’s Ghost!
A Tale of Three Jupiters, Part 3: Jupiter’s Brother Has Three Suns
Robert De Niro Defends Anti-Vax Nonsense
I’m Shocked—SHOCKED—by This NASA Photo
A Tale of Three Jupiters, Part 2: A Jupiter Doppelgänger
Guardian of the Galactic Dust
A Tale of Three Jupiters, Part 1: A Lonely Young Jupiter Wanders the Galaxy
Volcanic Eruption of Denial
No, Planet Nine Will Not Send a Wave of Earth-Destroying Comets to Kill Us All
Welcome to the Grand Aleutian
Time Lapse: Field of View
SpaceX Sticks the Landing!
The Delicate Petals of a 30 Megaton Impact
A Hundred Billion Galaxies
Soon
A Distant, Moody Comet
Time Lapse: “Radiance”
Mars Gives Opportunity a Whirl
Students: Want to Experience Weightlessness?
Blue Origin: Third Time’s a Charm (but So Were the First and Second)
Introducing Crash Course Physics!
Tesla, Elon Musk, and Climate Change
At the Heart of the Milky Way
Astronomers Map a Distant Super-Earth, but It’s a Molten Hell
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Another Scary Record
We Are Dead Stars
Jupiter Got Whacked by Yet Another Asteroid/Comet!
Psychedelic Stroboscopic Easter Eggs
Trump’s Faith in Denial
The Tribeca Film Festival Pulls Anti-Vax “Documentary”
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
A Giant Martian Cone Defies the Wind
Red Canaries
NGC 3310, Its Arm Wide
Amazing Time Lapse: A Year of Sunrises
If Global Warming Is Real … Why Is Iceland So Cold?
ExoMars Spacecraft Seen on Its Way to Mars!
Watch TWO Tiny Comets Zip Past Earth This Week During a Very Close Encounter
Time-Lapse Video: Skylight
Happy Vernal Equinox 2016! But What Does That Mean?
Three More Space Travelers Set to Go to ISS, Plus Two Uncrewed Launches
Coming Soon
Want to Make a Diamond? Slam an Asteroid Into the Earth!
Google Doodle Honors Caroline Herschel … With One Small Problem
Global Warming: Satellites vs. Thermometers
Staring Down the Horns of the Bull
What Pause?
No, That’s Not a Hubble Photo of “Cosmic Ice Sculptures”
10 Years Over the Red Planet
February 2016: Hotter Than Ever
An Active Volcano Eruption Caught From Space
Why Is There a Huge Mountain on Ceres?
DSCOVR an Eclipse Seen From Space
How Do We Know Global Warming Is Real?
No, That’s Not a Photo of Earth From Hubble
FRB Update Part 2: Repeating Fast Radio Burst Opens Up the Playing Field
Climate Whirlwind: Severe Tornado Outbreaks Are Increasing
Does Pluto Have Clouds? Well …
FRB UPDATE Part 1: Yeah, So About That Fast Radio Burst …
Is This the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Seen?
Earth’s Sentinel
Lamar Smith: Still Fishing With Dynamite
Pluto’s Purple Mountains’ Majesty Turns Out to Be … Methane
Stated Clearly: Mutations
A Sandy Martian Self-Portrait
A Cosmic Jet Ramped Up by the Big Bang
One Moon, Two Moons, Three Moons, a Trillion Moons
A Long, Cold Sleep for Philae
Tuesday Ends (Almost) a Year in Space
A Blue Bubble That Isn’t
Leap Days Explained!
Why Do We Have Leap Days?
Saturnian Shadow Play
Martian Weather Report: Scattered Clouds, With a Chance of Dropping Jaws
Astronomers Find Another Small Icy Body Out Past Pluto
Astronomers Solve One Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts and Find Half the Missing
Matter in the Universe
Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
The Two Tails of 67/P
Gardasil Has Already Drastically Cut HPV Infections in Young Women
Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShip Two, Too
Plunge Into One of the Largest Star Nurseries in the Near Universe
Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water
Largest Fireball Since Chelyabinsk Falls Over the Atlantic
Crash Course Astronomy: Now in a Language Near You!
When Is an Asteroid Not an Asteroid? When It’s a Chunk of a Comet.
Is More CO2 Good for Us? Don’t Hold Your Breath.
Galactic Shell Game
January 2016: Shattering the Global Warming Monthly Record
Unholey Comet
Jupiter: Jedi or Sith?
Climate Quickies: Scientists (Briefly) Discuss Climate Change
Life in Space: Comparing Science Fact and Science Fiction
OK Go Defies Gravity
LIGO Sees First Ever Gravitational Waves as Two Black Holes Eat Each Other
Uluru
NASA’s 2017 Budget Request: The Good, the Bad, and the Same Old Same Old
New Study: Yup, Thermometers Do Show Global Warming Is Real