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It's eclipse season for the Solar Observatory
The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has revealed some information which may force us to rethink the evolution of the early Universe.
Pictures from NASA's Dawn spacecraft seem to indicate that the dwarf planet was much more active than we thought.
SpaceX has suffered a serious setback after one of its rockets, carrying a $200 million communications satellite, exploded yesterday.
It's not the full picture, but its a lot more than we knew before.
The sub will be used to explore Titan's oceans.
Scientists track how a critical chemical element for life got to our planet.
Spinning black holes are capable of complex quantum information processes encoded in the X-ray photons emitted by the accretion disk.
A star system 94 light-years away stepped in as a potential candidate for intelligent life.
NASA's Juno shuttle will get closer to Jupiter than any other man-made structure.
A dark galaxy that a Sith Lord would enjoy.
NASA's year-long Mars simulation experiment has concluded today.
Fire those blasters. We're going exploring!
The Chinese space program is taking huge strides forward.
It just needed some space...
Researchers have developed a method to identify impoverished areas using free information from satellite imagery.
The entirety of its scientific work will be made public at no cost whatsoever.
A Yale University researcher claims that the so-called Goldilocks planetary area only tells half of the story.
Polish astronomers have captured an incredibly rare event from start to finish: a white dwarf going nova.
Anthropologists have shown that Mayan tablets of math and astronomy have been greatly underestimated.
Astronauts will be installing a new module on the ISS for space taxis.
Teleporting quantum states might the future of communications, and China is leading the way.
The Perseids are taking place in this period, and this year promises to be an especially good one.
Drawn by gravity, a dwarf galaxy pair is leaving the void for a more crowded region of the universe.
NASA's ever-resourceful Cassini probe found steep-sided canyons on Saturn's moon Titan.
When a star is ready to drop the curtain, it goes out with a bang -- a supernova explosion. But some double the bang.
All because the sun had a bad day and 'farted'.
Now? Not so much.
Moon Express is going to the Moon -- if we can solve the paperwork.
We finally know what caused the huge, Earth-sized red spot on Jupiter.
We might be too early for the party. Darn!
Reason number #1304 not to colonize Io.
You could say they hit a high note.
The findings help create a more comprehensive picture of supermassive black hole populations.
Every two minutes, this pulsing star lights up the entire star system.
Six months, floating above the Earth, with no gravity, no family and only radio contact with your home planet. Anyone can do it, right?
They actually take one another for a spin.
The swirling gases could shed light on the atmosphere of other planets within and outside of our solar system.
The findings could reveal the location of the missing matter of our universe.
Invisible dark matter continues to elude scientists
We have touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it is us—extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions of our mind, extensions of our heart and soul… — Ray Bradbury, science fiction author, speaking at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, October 8, 1976 Traveling to Mars has been the dream of many […]
Of these planets, four are believed to potentially be similar to Earth.
Despite being thousands of kilometers away, the sun and moon are behind some of the earthquakes on the Earth.
The drone will have to be light but solid enough to survive in the moon's harsh atmosphere.
This space snow could help scientists better understand planet formation and evolution.
The image captures the gas giant and its surroundings in amazing detail.
Pluto and Ceres have a new neighbor.
Death from the heavens.
Researchers working with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii have made a stunning discovery: they found evidence of water clouds around a brown dwarf. Since its discovery, the brown dwarf known as WISE 0855 has fascinated astronomers. It lies just 7.2 light-years from Earth and it’s the coldest confirmed object outside of our solar system at temperatures ranging […]
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