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Elisabeth Moss joins Dark Universe remake of 'Invisible Man'
"The Handmaid's Tale" star Elisabeth Moss will star in a new version of the classic monster movie "The Invisible Man."
Exploring the Moon in April: A Night-to-Night Description
This will be a great week to study the ever-changing lunar landscape with a telescope or even just a pair of binoculars.
Beresheet spacecraft: 'Technical glitch' led to Moon crash
Preliminary data suggests a technical glitch caused the Beresheet spacecraft to shut down its main engine at the wrong time.
'Black Hole Hunters' Shows Epic Chase to Capture First Images
From frigid Antarctica to a high-altitude location in Chile, a new documentary takes viewers around the world to capture the first black hole images.
Hubble peers at cosmic blue bauble
Messier 3: containing an incredible half-million stars, this 8-billion-year-old cosmic bauble is one of the largest and brightest globular clusters ever discovered.
Look: Jane Fonda hosts 'Book Club' film reunion
"Book Club" stars Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen enjoyed an evening together.
Hubble peers at cosmic blue bauble
Globular clusters are inherently beautiful objects, but the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Messier 3, is commonly acknowledged to be one of the most beautiful of them...
Highways still closed as blizzard moves past Upper Midwest
The blizzard that paralyzed the Central Plains and Upper Midwest with record-breaking snowfall and ice appears to be winding down.
The most famous black hole now has a name
When talking about the famous black hole whose photograph was released by scientists this week, you can now refer to it by a special name — Powehi.
Rocket break-up provides rare chance to test debris formation
The discarded 'upper stage' from a rocket launched almost ten years ago has recently crumbled to pieces.
The delight of discovering an asteroid that spits
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses recent news about the asteroid Bennu and Kuiper Belt–object Ultima Thule.
Oil-eating bacteria found at the bottom of the ocean
Scientists have discovered oil-eating bacteria in the planet's deepest oceanic trench, the Mariana Trench.
NRL researcher ventures to the Arctic in search of cosmic dust
After arriving at McMurdo Station on the unforgiving continent of Antarctica, it still took Dr. Rhonda Stroud two days of safety training and a four-hour flight before she was finally...
Tests for the InSight 'Mole'
A blue box, a cubic metre of Mars-like sand, a rock, a fully-functional model of the Mars 'Mole' and a seismometer – these are the main components with which the German Aerospace...
SpaceX Recovered Falcon Heavy Nose Cone, Plans to Re-fly it This Year (Photos)
SpaceX recovered the payload fairing during yesterday's Falcon Heavy megarocket launch and plans to employ it on another mission this year, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said.
Earth from Space
This week's edition features the busy maritime traffic passing through the English Channel
Twin astronauts Scott, Mark Kelly show space life doesn't bring lasting bio changes
Astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station. His twin brother, fellow astronaut Mark Kelly, stayed on the ground. A research team tracked the health and biology...
Europe’s institutions consider using Ariane 6 and Vega-C
ESA and Arianespace are giving full support to European institutional customers to launch their missions on Ariane 6 and Vega-C.
Curiosity tastes first sample in 'clay-bearing unit'
Scientists working with NASA's Curiosity Mars rover have been excited to explore a region called "the clay-bearing unit" since before the spacecraft launched. Now, the rover has finally tasted its...
Better city bike maps are made by volunteers
Not all bike routes are equal. Some places that are marked as bike routes on a map feel precarious when traversed on two wheels, including shoulders covered in debris and...
Drop test proves technologies for reusable microlauncher
Spain’s PLD Space, supported by ESA, has demonstrated the technologies for a reusable first stage of their orbital microlauncher, Miura 5.
NASA's 'Twins Study,' landmark research for an eventual Mars mission
A NASA study of a US astronaut who spent a year in space while his twin brother remained on Earth is providing valuable insights into the effects of extended spaceflight...
Doing up the deep dish
ESA's 35-metre radio antenna in Malargüe, Argentina, has had a major refurbishment. Extenstive modifications made will now allow the ESTRACK network to support future missions like Euclid, launching in 2022,...
Israeli spacecraft on historic mission crashes into the moon on live broadcast
An Israeli spacecraft crashed into the moon just moments before touchdown, failing in an ambitious attempt to make history Thursday as the first privately funded lunar landing. The spacecraft lost...
Lockheed Martin Proposes 'Early Gateway' to Put Astronauts on the Moon by 2024
The private aerospace company Lockheed Martin unveiled new details about its proposed architecture for landing NASA astronauts on the moon in 2024, making the announcement here at the 35th Space...
All Your Questions About the New Black Hole Image Answered
Yesterday, Earthlings first laid eyes on an actual image of a black hole — turning what lived only in our collective imaginations into concrete reality.
Israeli Lander Failure Marks 1st Moon Crash in 48 Years
Beresheet's moon crash was the first in nearly half a century. But back in the day, moon crashes happened all the time.
See the X-ray Neighborhood of the First-Ever Black Hole Photo in This Space Telescope View
The orange speckles in a new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory add another dimension to the first-ever image of a black hole.