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New Horizons Approaches the Most Distant Object Ever Visited. ‘We Only Get One Shot.’

Sync your calendar with the solar system

The most distant space encounter in history is happening now

New Horizons Approaches Ultima Thule

Meteor Showers That Will Light Up Night Skies in 2019

Extreme weather in 2018 was a raging, howling signal of climate change

NASA’s New Horizons Will Visit Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day

NASA has a New Year’s date with a distant space rock. Here’s how to watch.

A Journey Into the Solar System’s Outer Reaches, Seeking New Worlds to Explore

How to Throw Away Your Christmas Tree

Disruptive, disappointing, chaotic: Shutdown upends scientific research

One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine

Incoming! A June meteor swarm could be loaded with surprises.

Got gorilla milk? Inside America’s largest stockpile of exotic milks

Perhaps Santa Had to Shout to His Eight Reindeer Because They Fell Asleep

How Volcanic Activity Can Spawn Tsunamis

Vaccine for Honeybees Could Be a Tool to Fight Population Decline

Seafood, in the Pink

The biggest science stories of 2018: From the edge of the solar system to crises on Earth

Inside CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

It’s Intermission for the Large Hadron Collider

There’s a huge and hidden migration in North America — of dragonflies

Earthrise: 50 Years Since Apollo 8

Apollo 8’s Earthrise: The Shot Seen Round the World

I took Bill Nye to three places he most wanted to visit — in outer space

What We Learned in 2018: Science

Look Back at How Much Space News Got Packed Into 2018

Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions

Why massive dinosaurs had funky ‘crazy straw’ noses

Saturn’s rings are halfway to their death

Watch a Robotic Hand Play the Piano With a More Human Touch

‘Spirits Won’t Rest’: DNA Links Ancient Bones to Living Aboriginal Australians

The Earth’s Shell Has Cracked, and We’re Drifting on the Pieces

It’s the Solar System’s Most Distant Object. Astronomers Named It Farout.

Feathers and Fur Fly Over Pterosaur Fossil Finding

Scientists claim progress in earthquake prediction

Saturn With No Rings? It Could Happen, and Sooner Than Astronomers Expected.

The Yoda of Silicon Valley

A Bright Green ‘Christmas Comet’ Will Fly the Closest to Earth in Centuries

Miners in Canada unearth absolute unit of a diamond — the largest ever in North America

Albinism Strips Pigment From the Body, Including the Eyes

A Salamander of Legend Emerges From Southern Swamps

Watch This Wolf Go Fishing

One of Nature’s Smallest Flowering Plants Can Survive Inside of a Duck

Riccardo Giacconi, Explorer of the Universe Through X-Rays, Dies at 87

This Dracula Ant’s Jaws Could Make It the Fastest Animal on Earth

Virgin Galactic Rocket Ship Reaches Space, a Milestone in Space Tourism

Narrower Skulls, Oblong Brains: How Neanderthal DNA Still Shapes Us

America’s Most Hazardous Volcano Erupted This Year. Then It Erupted and Erupted.

It Could Be the Age of the Chicken, Geologically