Chang’e-4 set down Wednesday night, according to clocks in the Americas. It's the 1st spacecraft to land on the side of the moon we can't see from Earth.
On Tuesday, Ultima Thule - most distant object visited by an earthly spacecraft - was revealed as a "contact binary," created when 2 small bodies in the early solar system stuck together.
From a global perspective, the partial eclipse starts in Asia at sunrise - travels rapidly eastward - and ends some 4 1/4 hours later at sunset in the Aleutian islands extending from Alaska. Read more. Eclipse map via NASA.
View larger. | Photographer Brett Joseph captured this image in San Anselmo, California, on Friday morning. He wrote, "Moon and Mercury prepare for their great disappearance trick. Of course, you in the eclipse path can catch the moon in the act, but none of us will see Mercury’s travel behind the sun."
