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The Japanese AKARI spacecraft – formerly known as Astro-F – captured this photograph of the reflection nebula IC 1396. This…

Thanks to gravity, there are places across the Solar System which are nicely balanced. They’re called Lagrange Points and they…

One of the great accomplishments of the Apollo missions was to bring home hundreds of kilograms of lunar rock. Suddenly,…

As I’ve mentioned in several episodes now, humanity is in a bit of a transition period, a time when it…

NASA managers decided on Tuesday that Tropical Storm Ernesto won’t pose a threat to the Space Shuttle Atlantis, so they…

Mars is the place that most of our spacecraft, landers and rovers are studying, searching for any evidence that life…

Cassini took this photograph of the 245-km (150-mile) crater Melanthius on the surface of Saturn’s moon Tethys. The central mountains…

In this week's questions show, I answer if techno optimism is blinding us to the challenges of spaceflight, why there…

It’s amazing to think there are telescopes up in space, right now, directing their gaze at distant objects for hours,…

This is a view looking down onto the unlit side of Saturn’s rings, lit only by the reflected light from…