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If you ever happen to see an eager seller on ebay or Craigslist offering authenticmoon rocks or lunar dusthauled back during the glory days of theApollo moon landing missions, it’s

The first two weeks of March provide a great opportunity to sight four bright naked-eye planets in the early evening sky. Low toward the west blazes Venus, which serves as

A sweeping new satellite analysis shows that Antarctica has lost nearly 5,000 square miles (12,950 square kilometers) of grounded ice over the past three decades — an area roughly twice

“‘Galaxy Quest’ is, without a doubt, the best ‘Star Trek’ movie.” So said Wil Wheaton in the 2019 “Galaxy Quest” documentary “Never Surrender”, and he should know a thing or

An image of RCW 36 in which the Milky Way nebula appears like a vast cosmic bird of prey (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Using the Very Large

SpaceX’s Ship 39 looks cool as it undergoes cryosystem checks on Sunday March 8 (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX’s Ship 39 looks super cool in images captured during the testing of

A newly discovered comet could put on a dazzling show in the coming weeks and if it survives a fiery brush with the sun, it might even become an ‘Easter

Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a rapidly spinning, highly magnetized neutron star or “magnetar” for the first time. The observation of this event, triggered by the death of a

NASA is one step closer to sending a drone mission to another world. Technicians at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland have begun building and testing the

The Cederblad 51 nebula in the constellation Orion. (Image credit: Emil Andronic) Astrophotographer Emil Andronic spent nearly 70 hours capturing the light of a beguiling reflection nebula near the head