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November 8, 2018

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has 'succeeded' after it whizzed past the Sun for the first time

After becoming the closest spacecraft to the Sun last month, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has gotten even closer, coming within 15 million of our solar system's star on its own, a feat NASA has called a success.

November 8, 2018

End of days? Telescope images reveal what happens when galaxies collide

Scientists have managed to capture, for the first time, a series of images showing what happens when galaxies collide and merge together, causing a massive explosion and supermassive black holes uniting to form one giant black hole. 

November 7, 2018

Creepy orange 'airglow' surrounds the Earth

According to the government space agency, the airglow is "diffuse bands of light that stretch 50 to 400 miles into our atmosphere."  It typically occurs when  molecules, largely nitrogen and oxygen "energized by ultraviolet radiation from sunlight." 

November 7, 2018

Space shocker: Astronomers confirm Earth has two hidden 'dust bunnies' floating around it

A new study may finally confirm the reality of dust clouds that have circled the Earth, after scientists have had heated debates over their existence for more than 50 years.

November 6, 2018

Researchers want to use lasers to contact aliens and help bring them to Earth

Scientists want to build a laser that could guide an extraterrestrial civilization and bring them to Earth.

November 6, 2018

Election Day 2018: How astronauts vote when they're in space

Even the International Space Station has a local polling site, thanks to a Texas law that arranges special absentee ballots for U.S. astronauts who are in orbit on Election Day .

November 5, 2018

NASA posts photo of crashed 'flying saucer from outer space'

A "flying saucer" crash-landed in a Utah desert 14 years ago and now NASA is sharing pictures for the first time.

November 5, 2018

Hubble Space Telescope snaps smiley-shaped cluster of galaxies

This group of galaxies can’t help but grin.

November 5, 2018

Mysterious interstellar object could be 'lightsail' sent from another civilization

NASA may have ruled that Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever spotted in our system is a "metallic or rocky object" approximately 400 meters in length and 40 meters wide, but a new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics says it could be something much more exciting – it could be "a lightsail of artificial origin" sent from another civilization.

November 4, 2018

Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 spacecraft ID plate sells for $468G in auction

Neil Armstrong’s personal collection of memorabilia has taken flight.