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Another gorgeous Saturn photo has emerged from the Cassini archives. The newly released image, which NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took on Aug. 12, shows the gas giant and its iconic rings in all their glory. And if you look carefully, you can see the tiny moon Pandora; it’s a faint dot near the top of the […]

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover conducted a test on Oct. 17, 2017, as part of the rover team’s development of a new way to use the rover’s drill. NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is making strides toward bringing its rock-boring drill back online. On Oct. 17, Curiosity pressed its drill against a Martian rock for the first […]

The Dawn spacecraft has received a second extended mission that will ensure it spends the rest of its life at the dwarf planet Ceres. NASA officials have decided that the Dawn spacecraft will spend its last days studying the dwarf planet Ceres. Rather than move on to another target for its final hurrah, Dawn will […]

The European Space Agency is studying ways to build a “moon village” using 3D printing. Here’s an artist’s illustration of one concept. Human settlement of the moon may go through Hawaii. Earlier this month, an International MoonBase Summit (IMS) brought together representatives from academia, government and the private sector to help lay the groundwork for […]

A bizarre cosmic object known as “Tabby’s star” exhibits strange dips in brightness, and scientists can’t seem to figure out exactly why. The star — also known as Boyajian’s star or KIC 8462852 — is located 1,500 light-years from Earth. It has generated quite a bit of intrigue and speculation since 2015, when data from […]

NEW YORK — The new documentary film “Lunar Tribute” depicts the awe and anxiety of traveling across the “velvet” blackness of space, and reveals the dedication of one astronaut to his family. When former astronaut Charles Duke entered the auditorium at the American Museum of Natural History here last week for a screening of the […]

Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) sits in the captain’s chair, with Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) to his right on “Star Trek: Discovery.” Warning: This recap includes spoilers for Episode 6 of “Star Trek: Discovery .” The Vulcans are one of the most beloved races of “Star Trek” because they demonstrate the eternal fight between logic and […]

Scott Kelly shares his experiences as an astronaut in “Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery.” Scott Kelly left a copy of “Endurance” on the International Space Station. The veteran of the single longest mission by an American astronaut, Kelly recounts his 340 days on board the station in “Endurance: A Year in […]

Halley’s Comet as photographed May 8, 1910, by Dr. G.W. Ritchey using the 60-inch (1.5-meter) telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, Calif., during the comet’s last appearance. The head of the comet and the beginning of its long tail are shown. Short, straight streaks are background stars. Comets are icy bodies in space that release gas […]

Researchers found that the sun-like star Kronos likely consumed 15 Earth masses’ worth of rocky planets. A distant sun-like star may have devoured a dozen or more of its own Earth-size planets, new research shows.  Researchers named the star Kronos, after the Titan of Greek mythology who ate his own children out of fears they’d […]

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