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Sam Rockwell Is Nobody’s Fool

Arts, Culture & Media

The actor Sam Rockwell specializes in playing tough, damaged, working-class guys — from a space miner to a rodeo cowboy in love.

Moon

The Trump administration wants to put Americans back on the moon

Technology
Moonrise from aboard the International Space Station, August 3, 2017.

What happened to the moon’s magnetic field?

Science
A composite image of a partial (left) and total (right) solar eclipse, taken in March 2015.

What you need to know about this month’s total solar eclipse

Science
The shadow of the moon

What solar scientists will be watching for in this summer’s total eclipse

Science
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Explorers Tom and Tina Sjogren stand in front of a blackboard at a makers space.

Dreaming of a DIY mission to Mars

Science

NASA and high-tech billionaires aren’t the only ones who want to get to the red planet.

The moonset behind Earth, as viewed from the International Space Station.

Some of the oxygen on the moon used to be on planet Earth

Science

The moon may be airless, but we know it has oxygen — Apollo mission samples confirmed its presence in the moon’s soil.

November's supermoon in southern Spain.

The violent collision that formed our moon may have tilted Earth, too

Science

Scientists have proposed a new “giant impact” theory about how the moon formed — and it provides a few new clues about our turbulent young Earth

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