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- SpaceX launch on Apollo 11 pad: Private spaceflight takes reins from government
Historic launch pad 39A stands to witness yet another landmark in aerospace history: the transition of space dominance from public to private.
- First LookMicrobes wake up from 10,000-year nap in cave crystals
Microbes that once slumbered inside giant crystals in a Mexican cave are alive and well, according to NASA scientists.
- How facial-recognition software is helping protect endangered lemurs
A new program may help researchers distinguish – and protect – Madagascar's lemurs.
- First LookCoders volunteer to capture NASA climate data as scientists rally for anti-Trump protests
Climate scientists and other researchers are increasingly speaking up against what they see as the anti-science views of the Trump administration.
- First LookHunt for Planet 9: how you can help NASA search for brown dwarfs and low-mass stars
The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 team says that technology is not advanced enough to analyze all of the images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission. They need the human eye.
- First LookDwarf planet Ceres has organic molecules, widening the hunt for life
Scientists have seen signs of 'pre-biotic compounds' on the nearby dwarf planet Ceres, teasing the possibility of life.
- First LookWe can clone a woolly mammoth. But should we?
Gene editing technology may literally open up a shortcut to resurrecting the woolly mammoth, but some scientists argue doing so would be risky and unethical.
- Despite moral objections, panel gives cautious approval to gene editing research
The gene sequencing tool CRISPR-Cas9 was Science's 2015 Breakthrough of the Year, but its use is prompting serious ethical debate.
- First LookUAE wants to build Chicago-sized city on Mars by next century
Move over SpaceX. The United Arab Emirates has plans for a large Martian settlement, too.
- First LookWinston Churchill's 'aliens' essay reveals scientific thinking with a philosophical bent
A newly rediscovered essay by the famed British prime minister written on the eve of World War II discussed the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.
- First LookFor the record: India launches 104 satellites all at once
Several decades of thrift and perseverance are paying off for the country's space agency.
- First LookResearchers discover 60 new planets: Could you help find the next?
Measuring changes in stars, an international team of astronomers has discovered dozens of new planets. They've made the data public, giving amateur astronomers a chance to find a planet for themselves.
- Mars 2020: Could this be Red Planet round-trip?
Engineers are building NASA's next rover with a return mission in mind. So far, NASA’s four Mars rovers have only covered about 38 miles of the Red Planet.
- First LookWhat ancient clay jugs reveals about Earth's magnetic field
Time stamp in a jar: The intensity of the Earth's magnetic field spiked suddenly in the 8th century BC, according to a new analysis of ancient ceramic jar handles.
- First LookAstronomers spot last gasps of dying star
A study in Nature Physics paints the most complete picture yet of the first six to ten hours of a supernova some 160 million light-years from Earth.
- Look Ma! No eggs. This ancient reptile birthed live young
Researchers thought that archosauromorph reptiles only ever laid eggs, but this new fossil may prove them wrong.
- SpaceX reignites historic launch pad that sent NASA astronauts to moon
A once-thriving hub of rocket launches at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is ready for its second life.
- First LookHow this cockeyed squid shines a light on deep sea evolution
Histioteuthis heteropsis, a.k.a. the cockeyed squid, has two eyes of vastly different sizes, which point in totally different directions. That's far from a deformity, though, scientists say.
- Ready to live on Mars? It won't be as easy as you think.
Living in orbit above planet Earth is hard enough, but living on Mars may be nearly impossible.
- Proxima Centauri's 'pale red dot' no Goldilocks planet after all
A new NASA paper dashes hopes that Proxima b, an exoplanet just over four light years away, might be habitable. But the research helps to define what conditions do create that 'just right' environment for life.