Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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I’ve had a love affair with the planet Saturn ever since I first saw it through my first telescope almost 60 years ago. Even though the image was tiny, I could see the ring system around the great ...

The three-quarter moon rose over Europe last week as serene and remote as ever, but dropping faster and faster through its gravitational field was a small, alien object: a metal sphere blazoned ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A moon tree is landing in Pittsburgh's Riverview Park in front of the Allegheny Observatory. Seeds of ...

NEW YORK – New York magazine says its highly regarded Washington correspondent, Olivia Nuzzi, is on leave after disclosing she violated the publication’s standards by having a personal relationship wi ...

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be a new way to detect passing dark matter. MIT physicists ...

Earth is about to gain a new "mini-moon," but it won't stay around for long. The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, ...

Two cosmonauts have set the record for the most days spent continuously aboard the International Space Station (ISS), ...

A rare mini-moon, a small asteroid temporarily captured by Earth's gravity, will briefly orbit the planet for two months.

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Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.