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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.

NASA records fascinating Martian landscape of odd rock formation and sand dunes

Mars is still full of surprises.

Fundamental quantum mechanics equation can also describe large-scale objects in the universe

It's a completely unexpected discovery.

Novel air-breathing electric thruster might mantain satellites in low orbit

It uses air molecules as fuel to beat drag.

Large, previously unknown penguin colony discovered through satellite

How were they able to hide for so long?

Astronomers find unique water-rich exoplanet similar in mass with Saturn

This odd world hundreds of light-years away could teach us about how planets in our solar system formed.

Breakthrough in the search for dark matter from the first ever stars

It's an exciting time to be a scientist.

Silicon-based life on Earth? Only artificially, so far -- but maybe natural on other planets

A team of researchers forced bacteria to create carbon-silicon bonds, and their experiment showcases why life on our planet chose carbon.

The moon may have formed from a giant spinning donut of vaporized rock

Homer Simpson is drooling over this story.

We've just found the earliest traces of hydrogen, showing when the first-ever stars ignited

We've learned a lot about the early universe.

World's biggest aircraft completes key milestone ahead of 2019 launch

Its wider than a football field.

Re-emerging life in Earth's driest desert sparks hopes for life on Mars

Life, as they say, finds a way.

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