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Luke Skywalker is packing his bags — for a trip to a Disney theme park

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Disney Will Add Star Wars Themed Lands to California and Florida Theme Parks

The 14-acre expansion will feature battles and the Millennium Falcon

The leading hemisphere of Dione shows tectonic faults running across its surface, along with craters, in false color, which was produced by an image in the ultraviolet, green, and infrared wavelengths taken by the Cassini Orbiter. The subtle variations in color may be caused by fine ice particles.

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Today, Cassini Will Say Goodbye to Saturn’s Moon Dione

It’s curtains for the NASA mission’s close relationship with the satellite

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The European Space Agency Wants to Build a Moon Village

Someday soon, the hot new European vacation spot could have a great view of the planet Earth

Dense smoke rises as fire engines arrive at the blast site after the deadly explosions in Binhai New Area in Tianjin, China.

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It’s Strangely Difficult to Measure Big Explosions

But is it time for a makeover?

Female saiga at the Black Earth Nature Reserve in Russia in 2009

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What Killed Over 134,000 Endangered Antelopes?

Experts are closer to an answer

The bust of Nefertiti at the Altes Museum in Berlin

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Could a Door in King Tut’s Tomb Lead to Nefertiti?

There could be more in Tutanhkamun’s burial chamber than meets the eye

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Watch the Perseids Peak This Week

Summer’s stunning meteor shower is sure to please stargazers

The famous terracotta army guards the tomb of Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang. Dozens of other graves and ruins around China are not so well secured.

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What’s Behind China’s Professional Tomb Raiding Trend?

Move over, Lara Croft: raiding tombs is an increasingly viable career in China

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Russia Might Own the North Pole

Thanks to global warming, Russia has claimed a new ocean in the Arctic

The Animas River under better circumstances in 2011.

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What’s Next for the Animas River?

Cleanup efforts are underway at the river, which turned a bright orange-yellow after a catastrophic chemical spill

Johannes Vermeer's "The Concert" was one of the most valuable paintings stolen from the Gardener Museum

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Could This Video Solve One of History’s Greatest Art Mysteries?

Footage shows an unknown man entering the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum the night before the infamous robbery

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These Academics Are Outracing (and Outwitting) ISIS

Historians, archaeologists and librarians scramble to save precious cultural capital before it can be sold or destroyed by militants

A family tunes in to the 1976 debate

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Americans Have Always Loved to Hate Presidential Debates

Audiences are ambivalent — but they still tune in

Jobs holds up an iPhone 4 at a tech conference in 2010.

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Steve Jobs is About to Get His Own Opera

But will it include a singing Woz?

The crew of the Bockscar

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The Nagasaki Bombing Almost Didn’t Happen

What really happened on the mission to drop the second atomic bomb

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Austin Just Sidestepped a Brawl Over BBQ Smoke

Don’t mess with Texas…barbecue

Tsuyuko Nakao, 92 and Kinuyo Ikegami, 77 both survived the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, pictured here in 2010.

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The Health Effects of the Atom Bomb Are Still Being Studied

Studies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors influence worldwide radiation standards, even 70 years later

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Balloon or Drone? The Internet’s Space Race is Heating Up

Facebook and Google battle to provide the best internet connection from the edge of the atmosphere

A resident walks along the border of an Indian enclave within Bangladesh

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This Was the Turducken of Border Disputes

Dahala Khagrabari (#51) used to be a piece of India inside Bangladesh, inside India, inside Bangladesh

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