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For the first time ever, we've seen a black hole being silently born -- no supernova required

Why blow up when you can mass up?

Latest results from Juno mission reveal massive surprises about Jupiter

Think you know Jupiter? Think again!

Mouse space sperm could pave a new era of space exploration

Space sperm to the rescue!

Ellen Ochoa and Michael Foale join the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame

The best of the best.

Physicists propose new, donut-shaped planetary body: the synestia

Homer Simpson would have been impressed. D'oh!

Terraforming Mars: what it is and why we'd do something this crazy

Two planets are better than one. Here's everything you need to know about Mars terraformation.

We've (unknowingly) created a radiation shield around the Earth using radios

Can your Internet landline do this? No.

This 18-year-old Indian designed the world's lightest satellite. NASA will launch it into space soon

Be more like him.

It used to rain so hard on Mars it shaped the planet's geology

A first of its kind study found rain on Mars was quite abundant.

Puffy exoplanet is as dense as styrofoam. The unusual find could help find habitable alien planets

An extraordinarily inflated planet could prove very lucrative in our quest to find other habitable planets.

China plans to have an asteroid mining base up and running "in the near future"

Epic loot.

Scientists find water clouds and exotic, primitive atmosphere on a "warm Neptune"

We didn't even know this kind of planet can exist.

Largest lava lake in the solar system makes massive waves

On Io, the floor is basically lava.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy -- the most powerful rocket in the world -- is nearly ready

Heavy metal in space.

Stunning image of the Crab Nebula put together from five telescopes' worth of data

Breathtaking.

Defunct dish turned into a radio telescope in Ghana with the help of Google Maps

Not your typical junkyard story.

Tanzania's blood-red lake snapped from space by NASA

Pretty. And pretty deadly.

This is why space armor is becoming more important

Things are getting pretty dicey in outer space.

Unmanned US plane lands after two-year secret mission

Its purpose still remains a mystery.

Stephen Hawking revises his deadline for humans escaping Earth -- it's now just 100 years

Darn.

SpaceX will launch three times more satellites than there currently are in orbit to give you fast internet

The first satellites could appear in 2019.

Want to work on NASA's software and get paid for it? You'll love this challenge

Enter the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge.

Watch amazing footage of Cassini diving towards Saturn

It's a one in a lifetime experience.

Cassini heard 'the big empty' when it dived through Saturn and its rings

The song before the 'grand finale'.

Morning glory seeds are hardy enough to survive in space, experiment reveals

Seeds -- the tiny bunkers of life.

Despite spending $200 million, NASA still doesn't have a new space suit and that could delay an important deep space mission

Internal auditors weren't happy with the way NASA is making new space suits.

China and Europe have talks to build a 'Moon Village' together

The two are already collaborating on important science projects.

Ancient carvings show comet struck Earth, triggering mini Ice Age

When you can correlate computer models of comets with carvings from 13 millennia ago -- that's got to feel good.

NASA is designing small away-from-home-ecosystems to make space exploration sustainable

Recycle everything!!!

We're launching a horde of tiny satellites, and that might eventually make space flight unusable

Space junk is cluttering space. One day, we might not be able to launch anything anymore.

Newly found exoplanet might be the best place yet to hunt for alien life

Such discoveries keep piling up. We can only rejoice.

All the ingredients for alien life: NASA finds hydrogen spewing out of Saturn's icy moon, likely propelled from hydro-thermal vents

Both Enceladus and Europa seem capable of supporting alien life, according to a major NASA announcement.

NASA to make tantalizing announcement about water worlds later today

NASA is doing the old 'announcement of an announcement,' and we're absolutely falling for it.

Venus does tectonics without any plates -- and it's possible young Earth did it too

Goddesses... always have to stand out, don't they?

Jupiter has a massive cold spot as well

Jupiter's Great Red spot has a new sister. Well... it's not new, but we just found it.

NASA snaps unprecedented image of auroras on gas giant Uranus

A rare sight 4.50 million kilometers away.

This year's 22 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts are out of this world

It's incredible what humans can do with some funding.

Researchers discover atmosphere around an Earth-like planet

Can we get excited yet? Mmm no, not really.

Radio observatory equivalent to the size of Earth sets its gaze to the center of the Milky Way to image a supermassive black hole

This was thought to be impossible to undertake until not too long ago.

Mars' Arsia Mons and the dinosaurs went extinct at the same time. Coincidence?! Definitely

#sync.

SpaceX rockets are just inches away from full reusability. Space flight might never be the same after

Last week was a historic one for SpaceX. Here's what should happen next.

From fiction to reality: scientists grow potatoes in Mars-like conditions

Interplanetary potato, yeah!

Geological deposits hint at ancient ocean on Mars' surface

Can't have a devastating water wave without water!

Adorable NASA robocube will float and do the housekeeping aboard the ISS

More like robocute, am I right?

Supermassive black hole dislodged from its galactic throne travels at 5 million mph

In the aftermath of a titanic galactic battle, a merged black hole caused some waves.

Researchers spot the biggest brown dwarf ever, trailing at the edge of the Milky Way

Surprisingly pure.

Curiosity's wheel grousers show damage after five years of off-roading on Mars

:(

Landslide spotted on comet for the first time using Rosetta's images

Comets are far more geologically active than we thought.

Astronomers zoom in on baby solar system only 300 light-years away that's forcing us to rethink planetary formation

In a rare opportunity, scientists are studying how planets are forming in a very young solar system. They got more than they bargained for.

Researchers found a supermassive black hole choking on its meal

Greedy!

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