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This straight stretch of windblown road crosses mostly empty desert, offering vast vistas of open sky and long-distance views of the surrounding mountain ranges in the distance.
Sweeping through eight U.S. states before heading over Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Brazil, the impressive eclipse was visible to millions of people.
A much bigger, grander affair than the annular solar eclipse just gone, this event will include totality - darkness in the day and a chance to see the sun's corona with your naked eyes - but only if you're in exactly the right place at the right time.
The International Space Station (ISS) spacewalk with NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara will be only the fourth extravehicular activity (EVA) with an all-woman crew (the other three were all done by the same two people).
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The Falcon Heavy -- the second-most powerful rocket currently in operation, after NASA's Space Launch System -- launched the agency's Psyche asteroid mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida Friday morning (Oct. 13).
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellites GOES-East and GOES-West watched as the shadow of the moon darkened the surface of Earth.
On Thursday (Oct. 12) -- just a day after NASA revealed its first sample returned from an asteroid and on the eve of the launch of the agency's first mission to a metal-rich asteroid - Apple TV+ dropped a new trailer featuring a familiar-looking space rock.
