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A bus-size asteroid will safely pass between Earth and the moon today (Jan. 24), and the online Slooh observatory will provide live views of the space rock just hours before its closest approach. The asteroid, called 2017 BX, is about the size of a bus, according to NASA’s Asteroid Watch tracker . NASA estimates that the […]

If you’ve ever wondered what it might be like to land on Pluto, NASA has the video for you . A new color movie combines more than 100 images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during the probe’s historic Pluto flyby in the summer of 2015. The video shows just what it might be like […]

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This year’s Academy Awards may have an otherworldly bent: The sci-fi spectacle “Arrival” and the space history flick “Hidden Figures” were nominated for Best Picture, and space media made the list in other places as well. “Arrival” is a thoughtful story of alien contact  based on a short story by Ted Chiang that was released in […]

Artist’s illustration of Team Indus’ moon rover and lander on the lunar surface. Team Indus is one of five teams still competing in the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize. And then there were five. Five privately funded teams have secured verified launch contracts to blast their robotic spacecraft toward the moon, keeping them eligible […]

Artist’s concept of the Team Indus rover on the moon. There could soon be a whole new definition of the term “moonshine.” A team of University of California San Diego (UCSD) engineering students is in a ferment, all hopped up to see if beer can be brewed on the moon . Their experiment is designed […]

Although the new movie “The Space Between Us” concerns a young boy on Mars, cast members and crew said everyone can relate to his dilemma as he pines for love. The movie opens in theaters Feb. 3. Sixteen-year-old Gardner Elliot (played by Asa Butterfield) was born on Mars because his mother was pregnant when she […]

An optical observation of one of the isolated galaxy groups observed with the Magellan Telescope in Chile. The red knots reveal emissions that signify recent and ongoing star formation. The deep optical image also reveals asymmetrical morphologies/shapes possibly resulting from an interaction. Computer simulations and theoretical models have shown that clusters of miniature galaxies, some […]

The view inside St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston, as seen during Gemini and Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan’s funeral on Jan. 24, 2017. HOUSTON — Family, friends and fellow astronauts mourned the death of Eugene Cernan , the last man to step foot off the moon, at a funeral service Tuesday (Jan. 24). Cernan, who […]

Gene Cernan, the last human to walk on the moon, died last week at age 82 . The naval aviator joined NASA in 1963 and remained with the agency for over a decade, flying three times in space. He is one of only three people to travel to the moon twice and one of only […]

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