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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield charmed the world with his guitar-playing during his stint as commander of the International Space Station.

The first stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket managed to hit its target — a robotic "drone ship" stationed a few hundred miles off the Florida coast — but wasn't able to stick the landing during the successful launch of two satellites today (June 15).

Ganymede would easily be classified as a planet if were orbiting the sun rather than Jupiter.

After launching 2 EUTELSAT satellites, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket engines were restarted for a controlled descent down to the "Of Course I Still Love You" robotic ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

On June 15, 2016, SpaceX launched the EUTELSAT 117 West B and ABS-2A communications satellites, and attempted to bring the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket down for a landing on a ship at sea. See images here.

The EUTELSAT 117 West B and ABS-2A satellites were launched into geostationary transfer orbit On June 15, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Small asteroid 2016 HO3 loops around Earth, but is too far away to be considered a true satellite, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It was discovered using the Pan-STARRS 1 asteroid survey telescope on Haleakala, Hawaii.

Just in time for the 50th anniversary this year of the beloved "Star Trek" franchiseJust in time for the beloved franchise's 50th anniversary this year, Paramount has released the its two most recent "Star Trek" films, 2009's "Star Trek" and "Star Trek: I

Scientists have converted data from the LIGO into audio files. By increasing the audio frequency of the data. they were able to make it sound like a 'chirp.'

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have detected the "fingerprint of gaseous methyl alcohol, or methanol (CH3OH)" in protoplanetary disk TW Hydrae, according to the European Southern Observatory.

NASA successfully ignited a piece of cotton-fiberglass cloth 1.3 feet wide by 3.3 feet long (0.4 by 1 meter) Tuesday afternoon (June 14) during the first stage of the Spacecraft Fire Experiment, or Saffire-1.

SpaceX will try to ace its fourth consecutive rocket landing at sea during a satellite launch Wednesday morning (June 15), and you can watch all the spaceflight action live.

In December 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected gravitational waves from two black holes colliding. This is the second LIGO detection to be be confirmed - the historic first was announced in February 2016.

Distortions in the fabric of space-time, whpredicted by Albert Einstein a century ago, have been directly detected for the second time. Today (June 15), the LIGO collaboration announced its second detection of gravitational waves created by colliding blac