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Rockets as we know them leverage Newton's third law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. As propellent combusts...

The Milky Way has been “stealing” satellite galaxies as we merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud, amassing a collection of over...

Oxygen and nitrogen-bearing compounds – components of amino acids, the so-called 'building blocks of life' – were found on...

A research team of astronomers reports evidence of a Seyfert energy flare decimating the Milky Way galaxy some 3.5 million years ago,...

The NASA InSight lander on Mars has been picking up on some unusual sounds lately. Or, as Phil Plait put it in his Bad Astronomy...

How would the discovery of life – never mind intelligent life – on Mars change humanity's view of itself, the universe, and life...

The NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed dozens of massive cosmic “bubbles” in the Eagle constellation, each one trapping...

If you’ve been hoarding blueprints for a citizen science Death Star, now’s your chance: NASA is accepting private-sector proposals...

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, currently an Expedition 60 crew member aboard the International Space Station, captured a stunning...

A compelling new theory is floating around the scientific community that phenomena attributed to a mysterious “Planet X” may...

Yesterday NASA released a breathtaking new visualization of a black hole in motion.“Until very recently, these visualizations were...

Scientists at West Virginia's Green Bank Observatory have discovered an unfathomably massive neutron star on the verge of collapsing...

We have it pretty good here on the third rock from the Sun. The climate is temperate – cooler than Mercury, warmer than Mars – and...

So, you've got ambitions of being the first human to set foot on the Red Planet, eh? Maybe you've watched The Martian a few too many...

It seems intuitive, even for humans. If a planet is too close to its sun, there will be no chance of liquid water, which is, as far as...

Press release: ESA/HubbleCredit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California,...

While the greater motor physical changes associated with low-gravity in space are relatively well-known, scientists are now learning...

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a dwarf star, dubbed TOI-270, with three exoplanets – TOI 270B,...

On July 20, 1969 at 2017 hrs UTC (4:17pm Eastern Time), the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle, commanded by Neil Armstrong and piloted by...

I've always been interested in extreme diets. I once dropped from 170 to 138 pounds (for reference, I'm 6'0" tall) by going vegan for...