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The beloved German folk festival known as Oktoberfest wraps up this weekend (at least in Munich), so we decided to get in on the celebration and taste-test a beer made with yeast that’s been to space. In 2014, the Oregon-based Ninkasi Brewing Co. sent vials of brewer’s yeast on a rocket to more than 70 […]

NASA wants the world to know that putting boots on Mars is not just a sci-fi dream. The space agency has been helping promote the new film “The Martian ,” which hits theaters across the United States today (Oct. 2), as a way to publicize its own plans to send astronauts to the Red Planet […]

Movies adapted from successful books don’t always capture the magic of the original text — and the calculation- and science-heavy story of “The Martian” seems a particularly tough customer — but the upcoming film does a surprisingly good job conjuring the book’s spirit. The new movie, opening Friday, trades some of the book’s nonstop danger […]

Russia’s robotic Progress 61 cargo craft approaches the International Space Station on Oct. 1, 2015.Credit: NASA TV A robotic Russian cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station this evening (Oct. 1), ending a brief orbital chase. Russia’s uncrewed Progress 61 freighter, also known as 61P, docked with the space station’s Zvezda service module at […]

As Hurricane Joaquin barrels across the Atlantic Ocean, NASA satellites are tracking the storm to determine how it will affect residents along the East Coast of the United States. A new video of the hurricane taken by NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement satellite shows a 3D view of how the storm grew and changed on Tuesday […]

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Amazing new images show the enormous canyon system on Pluto’s big moon Charon in unprecedented detail. The photos were captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby of Pluto on July 14. Mission team members combined some of the images into a new video that lets viewers fly over Charon’s tortured surface . […]

New Horizon’s fresh hi-res multispectral images of the smaller body of this double dwarf planet reveal a tortured world of craters and crunched terrain. A rugged canyon system stretching over 1000mi (1600km) around this moon begs scientific explanation. (Full Story) Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Stuart Robbins/mash mix: Space.com’s @SteveSpaleta To source

Andromeda (M31) is the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way and the farthest object that can bee seen with the naked eye. With binoculars or a telescope, you can spot M32, a small companion galaxy that Andromeda will one day consume. October 2015 is a good time to see them, along with Saturn (after […]

Artist’s illustration of Moon Express’ MX-1 lunar lander on its way to the moon.Credit: Moon Express The first private moon landing could be just two years away. California-based company Moon Express , which aims to fly commercial missions to the moon and help unlock its resources, has signed a five-launch deal with Rocket Lab, with […]

Russia launched an unmanned cargo ship Thursday (Oct. 1) on a speedy mission to deliver tons of fresh supplies to a waiting crew on the International Space Station. The cargo ship, called Progress 61, blasted off atop a Russian Soyuz rocket at 12:49 p.m. EDT (1649 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where it […]