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LightSail-2 Mission Shows Solar Sailing’s Potential for Spaceflight

How Does a Male Black Widow Find a Mate? Follow the Other Guys

A New Way to Fight Crop Diseases, With a Smartphone

When Mega-Tsunamis Drowned Mars, This Spot May Have Been Ground Zero

NASA’s TESS Satellite Spots ‘Missing Link’ Exoplanets

Wanted: Old Chimney, Suitable for Roosting

The Southern Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower Will Peak in Night Skies

Chaser, Border Collie Trained to Recognize 1,022 Nouns, Dies at 15

Triceratops Skull, 65 Million Years Old, Unearthed by College Student, 23

A Brutal Disease Kills Monkeys. Flies Could Be Spreading It.

Tree Stumps Are Dead, Right? This One Was Alive

Daniel Callahan, 88, Dies; Bioethics Pioneer Weighed ‘Human Finitude’

Five Women Who Made the Moon Landing Possible

Sailing Through Space on Solar Wind? LightSail 2 Will Try

Christopher Kraft, NASA’s Face and Voice of Mission Control, Dies at 95

Even Unhatched, Birds Exchange Survival Skills

Five Things to Know About Rabies

Rabies Kills Tens of Thousands Yearly. Vaccinating Dogs Could Stop It.

Where Rabies Is Entrenched

Dinos for Dinner

A Shipwreck, 500 Years Old, Appears on the Baltic Seabed

Watch Our Moonshot for the Stage

NASA Practices Space Gardening to Pack Lunchboxes for Mars

Just Before the Eagle Landed, an Alien Arrived in Our Living Room

Most Wikipedia Profiles Are of Men. This Scientist Is Changing That.

Mitchell Feigenbaum, Physicist Who Made Sense of Chaos, Dies at 74

Why Are These Mice Hallucinating? Scientists Are in Their Heads

This New Liquid is Magnetic, and Mesmerizing

The Apollo 11 Moon Landing in Augmented Reality

Apollo 11: As They Shot It - Returning Home

Apollo 11: As They Shot It

The Story of 8 Unforgettable Words About Apollo 11

Hawaiian Elders Arrested Trying to Block Telescope Construction

Apollo 11 Anniversary: Everything You Need to Read on the Moon Landing

To Make It to the Moon, Women Have to Escape Earth’s Gender Bias

One Small Step for Experimental Space Gear. Many Giant Leaps of Imagination.

Michael Collins Didn’t Walk on the Moon. But He Got to Drink Warm Coffee.

As New Space Race Beckons, Astronauts Face Identity Crisis

Looking Back at People Watching the Apollo 11 Mission

If Algae Clings to Snow on This Volcano, Can It Grow on Other Desolate Worlds?

The Sun Will be With You Shortly

Lion Bones Are Profitable for Breeders, and Poachers

Is it Time to Play With Spaceships Again?

India’s Chandrayaan-2 Moon Launch: When and How to Watch

Two Magical Places That Sent Apollo 11 to the Moon and Back

Watch Live: ‘Manhattanhenge’

Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93

Rene Favaloro, a Pioneering Surgeon, Is Honored in Today’s Google Doodle

Rene Favaloro, a Leader in Early Heart-Bypass Surgery, Died at 77

A Burning Lava Lake Concealed by a Volcano’s Glacial Ice