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Alfred Molina, Frances O'Connor (Bedazzled), Jimmi Simpson (Date Night) and British actor Aneurin Barnard have joined the cast of Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes, TheWrap has confirmed.

Two robotic probes began orbiting the moon Sunday in preparation for an unprecedented mission to map the lunar interior.

Two robotic NASA probes are due to arrive at the moon this weekend to resolve a long-standing mystery of what is inside Earth's natural satellite and how it got there.

A government-issued decree is the first published announcement that China intends to land an astronaut on the moon, a place where no one has stood in almost 40 years.

Moon rocks NASA collected during its six moon landings in the early 1970's have gone missing from the space agency, and a recent internal audit shows more than 500 samples are now unaccounted for. Apollo astronauts brought back 812 lbs of lunar rock and dust staring with the 1969 Apollo 11 landing of the first men on the moon's surface, and NASA has loaned out thousands of samples over the years for study.

This will be a rare event not to miss for those living in the western third of the U.S. -- a total lunar eclipse on Saturday that's the last one the United States will see for almost three years.

The total lunar eclipse will be most visible by those in the western half of the United States on Saturday, with views before dawn Pacific and Mountain Standard time. If clears skies prevail, the moon should be cast in a big shadow, appearing bright red and oversized. Beyond the U.S., those in places like Winnipeg, Guam, eastern Asia and Australia will be able to see it.

A total lunar eclipse will thrill sky-watchers early Saturday morning, Dec. 10. The best views will be the Pacific region, so, Australia, East Asia, Alaska and parts of Western Canada can expect to see the event starting at 4:45 a.m. Pacific Time. To watch the eclipse live, point your Web browser to the SLOOH space camera for real time views from telescopes in Hawaii, Austrailia and Asia.

As our sun churns out massive amounts of energy, it sometimes belts out enough solar wind to literally sandblast the surface of the Moon. NASA scientists have used a model of the effects of coronal mass ejections -a gargantuan type of sun storm- to determine that such events can blow the equivalent of 10 dump truck loads of dust right off the Moon's surface and into space.

Recent Space Pictures Released by NASA: A New Map of Moon and First Supernova Companion Star [PHOTOS]

South Korea's LG Electronics Inc has replaced the head of its home appliances division but kept its mobile chief despite the business posting six consecutive quarters of losses.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) science team has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the Moon ever created.

Tonight, Venus, Mercury and the red supergiant star Antares will form an almost perfect vertical line on the southwestern horizon. The trio of the two innermost planets in our solar system and orange-hued Antares, the brightest star in the Scorpio constellation, will angle 'up' and slightly to the right approximately 30 minutes after local sunset.

A sample from a moon rock brought to earth by astronauts of NASA's Apollo 15 mission in 1971 was placed on long-term public display at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, AZ, on Saturday.

A huge asteroid will pass closer to Earth than the moon on Tuesday, giving scientists a rare chance for study without having to go through the time and expense of launching a probe, officials said.

An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier is heading toward Earth and will fly by it closer than the moon on Tuesday, providing a rare observing opportunity to scientists, NASA said.

An asteroid will come within 202,000 miles of earth on Nov. 8--closer than the moon.

When 74-year-old Joann Davis of Lake Elsinore contacted NASA on May 10th, she was looking for a buyer for the piece of moon rock her dead husband left her. However, she was in for a shock.

NASA agents confront a 74-year-old woman at a Denny's to recover moon artifact.

Russian and European space agencies eye possible lunar bases by 2030.

China may be the first country to own land on the moon.