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The sky can be a showy stage with big-time events like eclipses, meteor showers and the occasional bright comet, but most nights have a quiet beauty that whispers instead of shouts. The contrast between hype and hush is ...

That video above is perhaps the ultimate off-roading adventure: taking a rover out for a spin on the moon. Look past the cool factor for a minute, though, and observe the dust falling down around that astronaut. The crew...

Rise above Earth with a telescope, and one huge obstacle to astronomy is removed: the atmosphere. We love breathing that oxygen-nitrogen mix, but it's sure not fun to peer through it. Ground-based telescopes have to deal...

Every once in a while when the time is just right and no one is looking, Curiosity's Earthly handlers allow her some night time Martian delights. In this case a pair of rising and setting celestial events bookend another...