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Eclipse watchers squint through protective filters as they view an eclipse of the sun from the top deck of New York's Empire State Building in New York on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 1932. Full solar eclipses occur every year or two or three, often in the middle of nowhere like the South Pacific or Antarctic. (AP Photo/File, File)

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AP PHOTOS: Total solar eclipses through the decades
By MARCIA DUNN - AP Aerospace Writer
Fri,02/23/24-9:18AM , 62 Reads
The complete shrouding of our sun by the moon has mesmerized humanity for millennia — a moment in time when skies darken and stillness creeps in.
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Speaking to Odysseus flight controllers, mission control director Tim Crain says the craft touched down.

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Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years
By MARCIA DUNN - AP Aerospace Writer
Thu,02/22/24-11:44AM , 62 Reads
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lander on Thursday made the first U.S. touchdown on the moon in more than 50 years, but managed just a weak signal back until flight controllers scrambled to gain better contact.
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This image provided by Intuitive Machines shows its Odysseus lunar lander over the near side of the moon following lunar orbit insertion on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (Intuitive Machines via AP)

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Private US spacecraft enters orbit around the moon ahead of landing attempt
By MARCIA DUNN - AP Aerospace Writer
Wed,02/21/24-10:08AM , 40 Reads
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private U.S. lunar lander reached the moon and eased into a low orbit Wednesday, a day before it will attempt an even greater feat — landing on the gray, dusty surface.
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This illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory in February 2024, depicts the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. The supermassive black hole, seen here pulling in surrounding matter, has a mass 17 billion times that of the Sun and is growing in mass by the equivalent of another Sun per day, making it the fastest-growing black hole ever known. (M. Kornmesser/ESO via AP)

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Astronomers find what may be the universe's brightest object with a black hole devouring a sun a day
By MARCIA DUNN - AP Aerospace Writer
Mon,02/19/24-10:03AM , 48 Reads
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day.
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