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Virgin Orbit will fire 85 percent of its employees
Richard Branson's rocket company is making major layoffs due to its "inability to secure meaningful funding."
What is that giant seaweed blob hitting the Florida coast?
It's a sargassum, of course!
By Mark Stetson and Mike Pearl
Plastic pollution is clogging a river in Guatemala. Can we ever clean it?
Previous attempts to rid Las Vacas of its plastic have been unsuccessful.
5 planets will light the sky in rare astronomical event this week
Want to see it? We've got you covered.
By Tim Marcin
Webb telescope just started peering at the fascinating TRAPPIST planets
Would any of these worlds be suitable for life?
The first space rock ever recorded slamming into Earth is up for auction
The eyewitnessed meteorite dates back to 1492.
Mystery of spaceship-shaped object has been solved, scientists say
Astronomers found it in 2017. It's speeding up.
By Mark Kaufman
Bad fungus is spreading in hospitals at an 'alarming rate.' What to know.
The CDC is taking this fungal infection seriously.
By Mark Kaufman
Webb telescope spots unusual world with terrifying clouds
It's a perpetual, blistering sandstorm.
Lava poured out of a volcano on Venus, scientists find
How did the planet evolve into Earth's "evil twin?"
Hubble stuns with new glittering star cluster image
A brilliant disco ball of stars.
What is sargassum? The giant blob of seaweed hitting Florida
The mass of algae stinking up spring break 2023.
By Mike Pearl
How Mars rovers could explore vast uncharted caves
Could microbes live within these mysterious Martian holes?
Yes, NASA astronauts will still pee in their new spacesuits
Axiom Space partially revealed a prototype for the Artemis III moonwalks.
Webb telescope captures star on the brink of supernova
The space observatory snapped a brief, colorful teaser to an exploding supernova.
A newly discovered asteroid could, but probably won't, hit earth in 2046
At a 1-in-600 chance to collide with Earth, officials believe impact to be "extremely unlikely".
Webb telescope just saw more galaxies in a snapshot than Hubble's deepest look
And scientists have only seen four percent of the data so far.
NASA's sci-fi space cup holds a drink without gravity
No lid or straw is necessary for this futuristic mug.
Earth's water came from super deep space, and it's older than you can imagine
The cosmos is teeming with water.
By Mark Kaufman
NASA spacecraft beams back tantalizing images of volcanic world Io
On this wild Jupiter moon, magma constantly erupts onto the surface.
By Mark Kaufman
How worried should we be about Solar Flares?
"It's not like a big solar flare is going to knock everyone out tomorrow."
By Mark Stetson and Mark Kaufman
NASA reveals its moon spacecraft was damaged as it plummeted to Earth
The Artemis II mission is expected to take astronauts around the moon as early as 2024.
