After five successful spacewalks that have left the Hubble Space Telescope more capable than ever, astronauts on the space shuttle Atlantis hold a space-based press conference.

Property agents in Washington, DC say young buyers seeking to become first-time homeowners with the help of government tax breaks and other incentives are getting outbid by investors and even each other. A host of factors has ignited home sales in the area, according to buyers and sellers, whose anecdotal experiences would not show up in the official statistics for several months

Finding the source of a faint “shh” sound could help scientists better predict space weather, which can bombard satellites, spacecraft, and spacewalking astronauts with dangerous radiation.