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Virgin Galactic revealed a brand-new SpaceShipTwo, NASA revealed geology maps of Pluto, and Stephen Hawking revealed he's really excited about gravitational waves. Here are our favorite space stories from the past week.

"The field of cosmology these days is converging on a standard model, centered around inflation and the Big Bang," says physicist Arjun Berera at the University of Edinburgh, UK. "This is why it's as important as ever, b...

On Feb. 6, 2016, around 14:00 UTC, a tiny chunk of interplanetary material plunged into Earth's atmosphere and burned up -- likely exploding -- about 30 kilometers above the Atlantic Ocean. The energy released was equi...

Famed cosmologist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking revealed the name of the new suborbital craft -- VSS Unity -- during its star-studded unveiling ceremony Friday (Feb. 19) at Virgin's manufacturing facility at ...

New research demonstrates that particles at the quantum level can in fact be seen as behaving something like billiard balls rolling along a table, and not merely as the probabilistic smears that the standard interpretati...

"I have had ALS for over 50 years," spoke Professor Hawking in this recorded dedication of Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Unity, a craft he is now slated to ride thanks to an offer by Founder Richard Branson.

Bermuda as photographed by Astronaut Tim Peake aboard the International Space Station....

Virgin Galactic rolled out its second SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane Feb. 19 as the company seeks to rebound from a fatal test flight accident more than a year ago. SpaceNews.com

Pluto's largest moon may have gotten too big for its own skin.

A commercial Cygnus cargo freighter departed the International Space Station (ISS) this morning (Feb. 19) after successfully resuming America's train of resupply runs absolutely essential to the continued productive func...

Space travel never looked so good.