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The time of totality during the April 8 eclipse will only last about 4 minutes. Can you “chase” the path of totality to experience the total eclipse for longer?

The galactic grand slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles (9.6 million kilometers) away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the small space rock at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph).

Jupiter will be closer to Earth this evening than at any point in the next 107 years. Additionally, with a new moon, skies will be darker than usual, meaning even clearer views.

The International Space Station orbits the earth about every 90 minutes at almost five miles per second, meaning views are common, if brief and often dim. Saturday’s flyby will be notable for its brightness and duration.

“James Webb is a force to be reckoned with," Purdue professor Dan Milisavljevic said.

It's amazing how much light our moon reflects. Having a few mirrors doesn't hurt, though. They're there because of the Lunar Laser Ranging experiment.

The Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon famously blasted off from Florida, but NASA was in Arizona, too. In 1967, two years before Neil Armstrong left his footprint in the lunar dust, engineers figured out a way to recreate the moon's surface . . . on Earth.

Just a few years before the Space Race, the people who would help win it were university students in Indiana with no plans of leaving the Earth.