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January 20, 2019 at 8:02 am

Curtain rising Sunday night on total lunar eclipse

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The celestial curtain will be rising soon on a lunar extravaganza. Sunday night, the Earth will slide directly between the... Updated 7:48 pm

January 17, 2019 at 12:31 pm

Total lunar eclipse meets supermoon Sunday night

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one. The moon, Earth and sun will line up...

January 17, 2019 at 11:12 am

Scientists: Saturn spent billions of years without its rings

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Saturn may have flown solo for billions of years — almost its entire existence — before getting its stunning set...

January 17, 2019 at 10:07 am

Hubble Telescope camera back in action after 1-week shutdown

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera is back in action, after a shutdown of just over a week. The Space...

January 9, 2019 at 9:08 am

Hubble Space Telescope’s premier camera shuts down

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera has shut down because of a hardware problem. NASA said the camera stopped working...

January 8, 2019 at 11:53 am

Asteroid-circling spacecraft grabs cool snapshot of home

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid-circling spacecraft has captured a cool snapshot of home. NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft took the picture days before going into...

January 3, 2019 at 1:38 pm

Scientists show off space snowman, Ultima Thule, in 3D

LAUREL, Md. (AP) — The newly visited space snowman — the most distant object ever explored — is now appearing in 3D. At a news...

This image made available by NASA on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019 shows images with separate color and detail information, and a composited image of both, showing Ultima Thule, about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft encountered it on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. (NASA via AP)

January 2, 2019 at 11:52 am

NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman

Ultima Thule, as the small, icy object has been dubbed, was found to consist of two fused-together spheres, one of them three times bigger than...

December 31, 2018 at 3:59 pm

NASA spacecraft enters orbit around asteroid, sets records

LAUREL, Md. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft has gone into orbit around an ancient asteroid, setting a pair of records. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft entered orbit...

December 31, 2018 at 7:53 am

A billion miles past Pluto, NASA craft encounters furthest world ever WATCH

The NASA New Horizons spacecraft that yielded the first close-up views of Pluto opened the new year at an even more distant world, a billion...