Space

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WASHINGTON, DC — Scientists threw everything they had into the sky during the solar eclipse that engulfed much of the

WASHINGTON DC – The Perseverance rover on Mars may have encountered the oldest rocks humans have ever seen and, possibly,

BOSTON – For the first time, astronomers have discovered an astrosphere around a sun-like star. This bubble of hot gas

From monitoring Mercury to embarking on a new adventure on an icy moon of Jupiter, spacecraft and astronauts made great

A pair of spacecraft just launched to create hundreds of artificial solar eclipses in orbit. The European Space Agency’s mission,

How to kill an asteroidRobin George AndrewsWW Norton & Co., $29.99 The dinosaurs met a gruesome death at the hands

The moons of Mars may be the remnants of an asteroid with a rogue star that came too close to

The first samples from the far side of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the lunar south

Some of the apparent quirks of Uranus may be due to bad timing. In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew