Science news roundup: Water on Mars, Arctic drilling ends
It's a rare thing when a week is filled with good environmental news, but that is precisely what happened.
Forty years ago: Apollo and Soyuz link up androgynously in orbit
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), conducted 40 years ago in July 1975, was the first joint U.S.-Soviet space flight.
After nine-year star trek, NASA spacecraft passes Pluto
Applause erupted at NASA's New Horizons control center in the wake of the eponymous spacecraft's flyby of Pluto.
Astronomers discover galaxy far, far away, and it's baby blue
It's among the universe's first generation of galaxies, from 13.1 billion years ago.
