SEATTLE, Wash - Washington's most recognizable manmade landmark celebrates a milestone Monday: 63 years ago, was the Space Needle's opening day. According to SpaceNeedle.com, it was conceived in ...

With each orbit, BD+05 4868 Ab leaves a blazing trail of molten rock behind it like a comet made of lava ... MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research in a statement.

(Mike Olason via AP) (Mike Olason) The newest comet was discovered by amateur astronomers, who spied it in photos taken by a camera on a spacecraft operated by NASA and the European Space Agency ...

home of the Space Needle, with her cat and two snakes. In her spare time, Hanneke enjoys exploring the Rocky Mountains, basking in nature and looking for dark skies to gaze at the cosmos.

NASA scientists ruled that out — it didn’t have the high iron and nickel levels typical of space rocks. Another possible theory is that Skull Hill is an igneous rock formed when lava or magma ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock. The space agency released the images ...

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It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station landed on Sunday in Kazakhstan, ending their ...

Reaction to this move, however, has been relatively muted. “I don’t think [the new directive] will move the needle much,” Genevieve Kanter, an associate professor of public policy at the University of ...