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A Rare Blue Moon Will Light Up the Night Sky This Halloween

Halloween will be even spookier this year.

A Rare Blue Moon Will Light Up the Night Sky This Halloween

100 Fascinating Facts About Earth

The best Spaceball.

100 Fascinating Facts About Earth

The Draconid, Taurid, and Orionid Meteor Showers Are Coming This Fall

Mike Lewinski, Flickr //CC BY 2.0

The Draconid, Taurid, and Orionid Meteor Showers Are Coming This Fall

Dr. Jeanette Epps to Become the First Black Woman to Live Aboard the International Space Station

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps.

Dr. Jeanette Epps to Become the First Black Woman to Live Aboard the International Space Station

Beavers and Bat People: The Great Moon Hoax of 1835

A lithograph of "ruby amphitheater," as it was printed in The Sun.

Worried About Asteroids Hitting Us in 2020? Don't Be

Two asteroids are expected to come close to Earth soon, but there's no cause for alarm.

What You Should Know About the 2020 Fall Equinox

Matt, Unsplash

How to See August’s Full Sturgeon Moon

It'd be pure lunacy to skip an opportunity to see this beauty.

10 Famous Birthdays to Celebrate in August

Getty Images // Chloe Effron

The NEOWISE Comet Is Visible This Month—But Won't Be Again for 6000 Years

NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab/Parker Solar Probe/Brendan Gallagher

The 2020 Perseid Meteor Shower Is Coming

Barry Mulling, Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0

July's Last Quarter Moon Is Coming This Weekend

When the Moon hits your eye like half a pizza pie, that's a quarter moon.

NASA Scientist Simulates What Sunsets Would Look Like on Venus, Mars, and Beyond

NASA's Curiosity rover captured this sunset at Mars' Gale crater in 2015.

Eau de Space: Former NASA Scientist’s New Perfume Smells Out of This World

One small scent for man.

A Huge, Super Bright Jupiter Reaches Opposition This Month

Alejandro Sanchez de Miguel, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA

An Annular Solar Eclipse Will Be Visible in Some Parts of the World on Summer Solstice Weekend

hashim mahrin, iStock via Getty Images