Earth's hot streak continues with warmest May since at least 1880
May was the hottest such month on record for the globe, but it may be the last month to shatter records for a while.
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Earth has a little asteroid pal that has danced with it around the solar system for 100 years
Hi, little quasi-moon. Nice to meet you.
Elon Musk tweets video of SpaceX rocket's crash landing
You can't win 'em all.
Stark photo could show newly discovered alien planet circling its star
A new image of a star shows a possible alien planet in orbit around it.
Watch Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin perform a risky rocket test during the company's first live webcast Sunday
Blue Origin will launch the fourth test flight of its New Shepard space system on Sunday. Watch it live.
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Bezos-backed Blue Origin rocket’s 4th test launch is ‘picture perfect'
Blue Origin aired its fourth test flight of the New Shepard suborbital space system live online Sunday.
Watch Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin perform a risky rocket test during the company's first live webcast Sunday
Blue Origin will launch the fourth test flight of its New Shepard space system on Sunday. Watch it live.
British astronaut Tim Peake, 2 others back on Earth after 186 days in space
Welcome back, boys!
This huge plankton bloom in the North Sea looks like a painting
Get lost in the swirls of a giant phytoplankton bloom in the North Sea.
19 stunning aerial photos of the Earth from Tim Peake's space mission
The Earth has never looked more beautiful.
Elon Musk tweets video of SpaceX rocket's crash landing
You can't win 'em all.
New video makes NASA's next Jupiter mission look like a blockbuster
NASA's new trailer for its Juno mission to Jupiter shows off the huge planet in all its scary glory.
Earth has a little asteroid pal that has danced with it around the solar system for 100 years
Hi, little quasi-moon. Nice to meet you.
Pioneering LIGO observatory finds more ripples in space and time
For only the second time, scientists have seen the signal of two merging black holes sending gravitational waves out into space.
SpaceX misses landing on a drone ship in the ocean, breaking the company's streak
Well, no one is perfect, not even Elon Musk.