When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On June 27, 1997, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft flew by an asteroid named 253 Mathilde ...

Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. How can we expand the limits of human knowledge further into the unknown? The Center for Astrophysics is a collaboration between the Smithsonian ...

Observatory Nights @ Hardin Planetarium. On select nights at 8:00 PM central, guests may join us to explore the night sky using telescopes right outside the planetarium. This will follow immediately ...