This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature photographed for the first time, and more.

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from Earth’s orbit as well as a video of Earth eclipsing the sun. See the dazzling views here.

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a parade of planets in the post-sunset sky.

Animation specialist Hazegrayart put together a video of ten never-made Russian rockets and spacecraft, these are the first ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Starting up again Saturday, a sweeping view of our solar system will glow in the night sky. The planetary alignment, or a ...

In the depth of winter, a sweeping view of our solar system will glow in the night sky. In total, six planets will be visible, four of them to the naked eye — Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The ...

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In February, six planets will align in the night sky — Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars — and be mostly visible to the naked eye. We find out how to see and more about this ...

The system was installed on the side of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module on the ISS. From there, the rig of 4K cameras is livestreaming the view of Earth for around 20 hours a day, save for ...