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Watch: real footage of cosmic particle 'snow' on comet 67P

Literally out of this world.

Breaking: Uranus smells like farts

An astronaut in the midst of Uranus' top clouds would be able to smell a rotten egg-like stench -- if he didn't die first.

What if we're not the first advanced civilization on Earth -- How would we know?

This is not about conspiracy theories, but a legitimate scientific concern.

Scientists find diamonds forged deep within a lost, ancient planet of the early solar system

Pieces of an ancient planet formed long before Earth shed their secrets.

Football field-sized asteroid makes close flyby past Earth -- and no one saw it coming

Close call!

If we don't hurry, the life we find on Mars might be from Earth

The clock is ticking.

China will grow flowers, potatoes, and silkworm on the dark side of the Moon

A Chinese garden on the Moon -- it almost sounds too crazy to be true.

Meet TESS -- the new exoplanets detective

NASA's future planet hunter has arrived -- and it's set for glory.

This is our Sun, in three different wavelengths

A trio of beautiful, and very useful images.

Dark matter may be a manifestation of extremely advanced alien life, researchers suggest

Probably the most interesting you're going to read today.

NASA's stunning, 4K 'Tour of the Moon' is just as good as visiting the place -- if not better

Eye candy galore.

Gecko-inspired adhesive allows robots to grip wider range of objects

The new gripper can grasp almost anything from pipes to porous rocks. Its primary application might be space.

Hubble snaps amazing photo of Einstein Ring phenomenon

The best kind of ring there is.

NASA is sending sperm to the ISS -- here's why

The first step to making spacebabies is to know if we can actually do it.

NASA Explores the Use of Robotic Bees on Mars

Marsbees could cover a lot more ground on the Red Planet than sluggish rovers.

Dark matter might not interact with anything other than gravity

Scientists are left in the dark again.

Phosphorus -- a crucial ingredient for life -- might be a lot less common in the universe than we thought

The odds of finding alien life are getting slimmer by the day.

Why Stephen Hawking Was Afraid of Aliens

"Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus," he said.

Scientists make most precise measurements of antimatter -- but only deepen mystery

Hydrogen and anti-hydrogen are unremarkably the same.

Astronomers discover a clump of black holes around our galaxy's center

For the first time, astronomers have managed to confirm the existence of a black hole population surrounding the core of our galaxy.

Could life be hiding in the clouds on Venus?

You wouldn't be wrong to call it 'hot' real estate.

Astronomers find the most distant star ever, looking through a galactic magnifying glass

The findings might help piece together the evolution of the universe.

X-Rays could sterilise alien planets that would be otherwise habitable

It's a small chance, but having a small chance of something wiping out all of life on a planet still seems like too much.

Gravitational waves might be created at the centre of most galaxies

Looks like we can expect more gravitational waves in the near future.

The Milky Way might be getting bigger

The Milky Way galaxy is on an eating spree.

Researchers map out the age of the Milky Way's "heart"

Our galaxy still holds many secrets.

Astronomers use gravity to zoom in on incredibly distant star

A new take on the whole 'twinkle twinkle' thing.

NASA's next mission to Mars will map the planet's interior, scheduled for May 5th

We'll learn more about our own home in the process, things that we never could here on Earth.

Water may, ironically, be the root of Mars' dreariness -- it could have sabotaged its magnetic field

The theory shows that as long as Earth's interior stays hot, it should avoid this fate.

NASA creates stunning visualization of melting snowflake

Something as simple as a snowflake melting can be very difficult to understand.

In a galaxy far, far away, Dark Matter appears to be missing

The elusive dark matter surprises us once again... this time by being absent.

A Japanese company wants to sell on-demand fake meteor showers -- but scientists aren't happy

But this could spell trouble for some satellites.

Exotic type of supernova wrapped in a 'cocoon' burns fast and furiously

Not your typical stellar explosion.

Some 70,000 years ago, a rogue star duo whooshed by our solar system -- and early humans probably saw it

If you happened to be alive 70,000 years ago, you'd be in for quite a show.

Strange object 'Oumuamua likely came from another solar system

We're still learning much from our interstellar visitor.

What's up with Steve: A new kind of aurora demystified by scientists

Meet a shimmering purple ribbon of plasma called Steve.

Supermassive black hole sends radio echoes of its stellar dinner

Another discovery that cements black holes' fundamental role in the evolution of the universe.

Martian oceans may have been aided by massive volcanoes, research suggests

A song of fire and water, on Mars.

AI spots thousands of craters on the Moon -- including over 6,000 previously undiscovered ones

The AIs are getting better and better.

Kepler -- the spacecraft that discovered thousands of alien worlds -- is running on its last drops of fuel

It will have time to find just a couple more candidate exoplanets.

Airbus tests harpoon meant to shoot down satellite-sized space junk

They're after the Moby Dick of space.

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt is still 'evolving'

Ceres doesn't get as much love as Pluto, but perhaps it should.

15 new planets discovered -- one is potentially habitable

Three of the newly-discovered planets are so-called super-Earths.

Galactic clockwork: Astronomers find all galaxies rotate once every billion years

Regardless of their size, all galaxies that just as long to come full circle.

Hunt for planets through Kepler's data with this newly released Google code

Space exploration made easy.

A year in space -- it really changes your genes

There's no need to panic, but these aren't exactly happy news.

Elon Musk: Mars spaceship might test flight in early 2019

Another audacious claim from quite possibly the boldest man on Earth.

Scientists 'sew' atomic lattices seamlessly together

The findings could lead to a new class of electronics like flexible LEDs.

Researchers create the 'crop hotspot' map of Mars so we know where to settle

All work and no food would make the colonists very sad. Also very, very dead.

New NASA data reveals many of Jupiter's hidden secrets

It's a trove of valuable data, but we're still just scratching the surface.

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