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June of this year marks the 40^th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon. At the time of Charon’s discovery, scientists weren’t even looking for it.

Today is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. Here are three things you might not know about the longest day of the year.

Parker Solar Probe's mission to figure out three strange things that the Sun does.

On the 35th anniversary of Sally Ride's historic trip to space, a look at other groundbreaking women in aerospace.

Space is a mess. At this moment, there are literally thousands of human-made objects cluttering up Earth orbit.  

Today, NASA announced some exciting new discoveries made by its Curiosity rover. Let our experts at the Museum help break down these exciting new findings.

We remember Alan L.  Bean, the fourth man to walk on the Moon and the only artist to have visited the Moon.

How the patches on Sally Ride’s flight jacket help tell her groundbreaking story of spaceflight.

Parsecs are actually astronomical units—not just in the Star Wars universe—used to measure distance, not time. (Sorry, Han.)

Filmaker and special effects artist Doug Trumbull shares the behind-the-scenes story of 2001: A Space Odyssey's most groundbreaking scenes.