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On the evening of Sept. 27, the moon will once again become immersed in the Earth’s shadow, resulting in a total lunar eclipse — the fourth such event in the last 17 months, As with all lunar eclipses, the region of visibility for Sunday’s blood-moon lunar eclipse will encompass more than half of our planet. […]

Astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency, left, and Terry Virts of NASA speak about their time aboard the International Space Station at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) town hall on Thursday, September 17, 2015 in Washington, DC.Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani The benefits of spaceflight extend far beyond the borders of countries […]

Hexagon observations made by Cassini in 2012, taken in wavelengths ranging from UV to IR.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University The huge, mysterious hexagon at Saturn’s north pole may finally have an explanation. The bizarre hexagonal cloud pattern was first discovered in 1988 by scientists reviewing data from NASA’s Voyager flybys of Saturn in 1980 and 1981, but […]

An early production painting of “Discovery” closely matches the description of the ship in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel “2001: A Space Odyssey.”Credit: Copyright © 2014 Turner Entertainment Co. 2001: A Space Odyssey and all related characters and elements  are trademarks of and © Turner Entertainment Co. (s14) Piers Bizony is a science writer and author […]

Does spaceflight affect the human body all the way down to the genetic level? And if so, can a study of those changes help protect or even select future astronauts? Scientists working on NASA’s one-year mission are taking the first steps toward answering those questions. Astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are living on […]

Scott Kelly, shown aboard the International Space Station, answered questions from space via Twitter, on Saturday, Sept. 19.Credit: Scott Kelly/NASA Scott Kelly just started the second half of the longest consecutive space mission a NASA astronaut has ever completed. To celebrate, he took to Twitter to answer questions from curious space enthusiasts on Earth. “Entering […]

A new video takes armchair explorers on a flyover tour of Pluto’s stunning and varied landscapes. The new Pluto tour animation stitches together photos captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby on July 14, which returned the first-ever up-close looks at the faraway dwarf planet. During the close encounter, New Horizons discovered, […]

Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko spoke to TIME mMagazine along with NASA aAstronaut Scott Kelly Thursday (Sept. 15), where they discussed their year-long mission in space.Credit: NASA Space travelers don’t have to dream of flying, but Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, up on the International Space Station, revealed his own bad dream of missing the flight back to space […]

Actress Nichols recently rode a promotional flight on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft equipped with a large infrared reflector telescope. She describes the airborne observatory’s science quest. Credit: NASA To source