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Hurricane Dorian is now a "catastrophic Category 5" storm as it approaches the Bahamas in the Caribbean, according to a National Hurricane Center update.

A record-breaking altitude and a few minutes of weightlessness in an extraordinaryvehicle --

Physicists on the hunt for the invisible hand that shapes our universe and the galaxies within it have turned their gaze to the dark side.

The telescope for a major NASA astrophysics mission has passed a key review that the agency says keeps it on track for launch in the mid-2020s despite uncertainty about its funding for 2020 and beyond. SpaceNews.com

It's an extra-sunny Sunday for NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which is making its third close pass around the sun today (Sept. 1).