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President Donald Trump’s administration is working with NASA on new space exploration policies for the United States. See photos of President Trump and his administration as they work with NASA. Here Trump, center, speaks before signing an Executive Order to reestablish the National Space Council, alongside members of the Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, […]

President Donald Trump, flanked by astronauts, members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence, signs an executive order June 30 re-establishing the National Space Council. WASHINGTON — After leaving the space community waiting and wondering for months, the White House announced Sept. 1 that President Trump planned to nominate Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) as NASA […]

In celebration of Force Friday, Lego just released the latest additions to its “Star Wars” collection, with several new building sets inspired by the upcoming release of “The Last Jedi .” Get ready for the next epic battle in a galaxy far, far away by building your own BB-8, assault walker and iconic spaceships from the […]

SpaceX says its Falcon Heavy , which is slated to make its maiden launch in November from the historic Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, will be the world’s most powerful operational rocket.  No matter how you look at it, the reusable Falcon Heavy is a big deal. Its first stage […]

A mountain-size space rock cruised past Earth this morning (Sept. 1) in a record-breaking encounter that has long had scientists drooling. At 8:06 a.m. EDT (1206 GMT) today, the roughly 2.7-mile-wide (4.4 kilometers) asteroid 3122 Florence came within a mere 4.4 million miles (7 million km) of Earth — just 18 times the distance from […]

Your favorite astronomy sky-charting app is a virtual time machine in your pocket. By manually setting the location date and time, you can re-create the greatest moments in astronomy history, such as Galileo’s first view of Jupiter from Padua, Italy, on Jan. 7, 1610. Astronomy sky-charting apps such as SkySafari 5, Starwalk 2 and Stellarium […]

Force Friday II is upon us  and there’s never been a better time to stock up on Star Wars toys and collectibles. For the uninitiated, Force Friday is an annual, weekend-long celebration of all things Star Wars. Think of it as the warm-up for the forthcoming release of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” which hits […]

The VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured a night-time image of Hurricane Irma in the Atlantic Ocean that showed a tight circulation on Sept. 1, 2017. With Houston just beginning to contemplate its long recovery from the onslaught of Hurricane Harvey , which made landfall in Texas as a hurricane before dumping record […]

A close-up of the solar prominences. John Delaney is Assistant Director of Communications for the Bronx Zoo-based WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society)  and a member of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York .  Last week’s Great American Solar Eclipse generated both widespread media coverage and record crowds for towns and parks fortunate enough to lie […]

Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) as imaged by TRAPPIST-South national telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in 2013. Sixty-six million years ago Earth underwent a cataclysmic change. Back then, our planet was dominated by dinosaurs, but a mass extinction event hastened the demise of these huge reptiles and paved the way for the mammalian takeover. Though […]

A supermassive black hole is depicted in this artist’s concept, surrounded by a swirling disk of material falling onto it. The purplish ball of light above the black hole, a feature called the corona, contains highly energetic particles that generate X-ray light. The corona gathers inward, becoming brighter, before shooting away from the black hole. […]

With an AR headset from Lenovo and a lightsaber controller, you can take on Kylo Ren in Star Wars Jedi Challenges. Kylo Ren stood in front of me, and since he already had his lightsaber drawn, I assumed he wasn’t there to calmly chat about the relative merits of the First Order. Indeed, the would-be […]

Whether it’s the trusty blaster Han Solo keeps at his side or the power converters Luke wanted to pick up at Tosche Station, tech gadgets are a major part of the Star Wars universe. Heck, R2-D2 and C3P0, who appear in all seven Star Wars episodes, are droids — you can’t get more gadget than […]