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A secondary nuclear fusion process first proposed 30 years ago has now been confirmed by scientists in Italy.
Early Mars may have gone through global megafloods, but was it habitable?
The boulder-like object has resumed its journey around the sun, but many other minimoons are waiting to be discovered.
The 10 billion-year-old fossil was named Heracles after the Greek Hero who was made immortal when the Milky Way was born.
It looks a bit like a dog house, doesn't it?
Both neural and galactic networks have the same structure, pointing to a fractal universe.
Mothballed on NASA’s shelves were the plans to view stars 13 billion years in the past. Now, a group of astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin want to dust off ideas for a moon-based telescope and try to put them to good use. The project was first tabled more than a decade ago […]
After the moon, they also want to put one on Mars.
The Milky Way has intertwined with other galaxies multiple times. Now, astronomers have put the puzzle pieces together.
For billions of years, Mars has had quite the leak.
This would be very helpful.
It's honest work.
To build a moon base, you first need oxygen.
As if Europa needed to get even cooler.
A new study highlights the importance of solar flares and space weather in reducing the habitability of exoplanets.
Scientists hope to verify their observations with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope in 2021.
Astronomers have discovered a free-floating planet, not associated with any parent star wandering our galaxy.
Beta testers for SpaceX's internet satellite network are reporting good connections so far.
Its astronomical value is another reason why we should invest more in space.
NASA has announced that water is more common on the Moon than previously believed, with traces now discovered at its sunlit Lunar South Pole. This is an area that has been traditionally considered free of water.
Suffering from success.
Shell-like structures in the Milky Way were created when a dwarf galaxy plunged through our galaxy’s heart around 3 billion years ago, new research suggests.
Getting excited over a handful of dirt is sometimes very warranted.
The crew was in no danger but the ISS is showing its age.
Good luck!
Cat videos and memes -- soon on a Moon near you.
It's the only place other than Earth in our solar system that's known to have white-peaked mountains
This could solve the mystery of tidal disruption events or ‘spaghettification.’
They pooled a lot of expertise into making these suits.
Isn't this a plot twist?
Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
Astronomers have discovered a tremendous cosmic web in the early Universe. Trapped within its threads, six galaxies feeding gas to a central supermassive black hole.
The bigger they are the… harder they mess up Venus, I guess.
Status report: astronomers may have found a planet outside our galaxy, something that has never been done before.
How do you measure... everyhing?
This has been a tremendous month for discoveries on the inner planets.
Hopefully it's better at parallel parking than I am.
The historic image was joined by previous observations of the black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy.
We've never seen anything like this before.
Like clockwork, the planet moves around its star in Pi days.
The $28-billion Artemis program will mark the next phase in NASA's moon exploration project.
Saturn's moon Enceladus features ice tectonics and subsurface liquid water.
Does this mean we can get a tan on a comet?
The big Red Spot is just one of several massive jovian storms.
Astronomers have captured stellar winds emitted by aging stars in unprecedented detail.
Small-scale concentrations of dark matter produce lensing effects that are 10 times stronger than expected, a new study found.
They killed the dinosaurs but might have also kicked off life as we know it.
Up close and per-Sun-al.
This spectacular three-star system is radically different than our solar system.
An oxidised form of iron was surprisingly common the moon, which may reveal insights about Earth's atmospheric history.
