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Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope, already damaged, collapses

The Arecibo telescope's 900-ton receiver platform and the Gregorian dome — a structure as tall as a four-story building — fell onto the northern portion of the vast reflector dish more than 400 feet below.

Moon may hold frozen water in more places than suspected

The discovery is good news for astronauts at future lunar bases who could tap into these resources for drinking and making rocket fuel, scientists said Monday.

Watch live: NASA shares discoveries about the moon

NASA is scheduled to announce “an exciting new discovery about the moon” from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) on Monday. Watch live here at noon.

NASA says there is ‘no threat’ from the ‘tiny asteroid’ that will pass by Earth on election eve

Astronomers announced over the weekend that an asteroid was projected to pass by Earth with a slim chance of actually hitting it — right before election day. NASA took to their official social media account to tamper down widely shared end-of-the-world reactions.

Just in time for the election: an asteroid?
According to NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, there is a small asteroid headed our way on Nov. 2.

NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life
The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built blasted off Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of ancient life.

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Spacecraft snaps closest pictures of sun, ‘campfires’ abound

A European and NASA spacecraft has snapped the closest pictures ever taken of the sun, revealing countless little “campfires” flaring everywhere.