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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen in this 2 minute and 30 second exposure photograph as it launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake -- the fossilized human ancestor, "Lucy," whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution -- Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA's Lucy mission carries Amanda Gorman poem, Beatles lyrics to space

jsc2021e043285 (Aug. 26, 2021) --- Soyuz MS-19 crew members (from left) Yulia Peresild, Anton Shkaplerov and Klim Shipenko pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. Shkaplerov is a Roscosmos cosmonaut and the Soyuz Commander who will be visiting the International Space Station for the fourth time. Peresild and Shipenko are spaceflight participants and first-time space flyers representing Russia.

Russian crew wraps trailblazing movie in space, safely returns to Earth

In this photo released by NASA, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, on Oct. 16, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

NASA's Lucy mission has launched to explore never-before-seen asteroids

Planets orbiting from a sufficient distance can continue to exist after their star dies. New evidence gathered from a solar system like our own suggests that Jupiter and Saturn might survive the Sun's red giant phase—when it burns the last of its nuclear fuel and collapses some 5 billion years from now. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko

This dead star offers a glimpse of our solar system's eventual fate

JIUQUAN, CHINA - OCTOBER 15: The launchpad for the Shenzhou-13 is seen on October 15, 2021 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China. The three member crew of the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft will be carried by a Long March-2F rocket, set to launch to the core module of the Tianhe space station China is building, from the Gobi Desert in the early hours on October 16 and will stay for six months, the standard for all future missions. It is the second crewed launch this year. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

China's historic crewed mission arrives at new space station

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids. Like the mission's namesake -- the fossilized human ancestor, "Lucy," whose skeleton provided unique insight into humanity's evolution -- Lucy will revolutionize our knowledge of planetary origins and the formation of the solar system. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA's Lucy mission is ready to launch and explore never-before-seen asteroids

Leprosy seen in wild chimpanzees for the first time

FAST catches a real pulse from FRB 121102.

Over a thousand cosmic explosions traced to mysterious repeating fast radio burst

Planets orbiting from a sufficient distance can continue to exist after their star dies. New evidence gathered from a solar system like our own suggests that Jupiter and Saturn might survive the Sun's red giant phase—when it burns the last of its nuclear fuel and collapses some 5 billion years from now. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko

Giant planet found orbiting a dead star shows what may happen when our sun dies

Cool unmanned space missions

A 'living fossil' alligator gar is found for the first time in a Kansas river

Animal lovers can see the new cubs via a live webcam.

Smithsonian webcam offers view of its adorable litter of just-born cheetahs

This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 180 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping are mapped onto a computer-simulated globe to create this image.
Data gaps are filled with Pioneer Venus Orbiter data, or a constant mid-range value. Simulated color is used to enhance small-scale structure. The simulated hues are based on color images recorded by the Soviet Venera 13 and 14 spacecraft.

New findings a 'complete reversal' in understanding why Earth became hospitable to life and its 'twin' didn't

View of the Moon Limb with Earth Rising on the Horizon

Australian-built rover to head to moon in 2026 in joint mission with NASA

A General View of Part of the ASKAP Antennae at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia's Murchison Region 05 October 2012.

Strange radio waves coming from the heart of the Milky Way stump scientists

Modern tobacco seeds
Humans were using tobacco at least 12,000 years ago.

Humans were using tobacco at least 12,000 years ago