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There's something about the perfect right angles of rectangles that evokes human-ness. Our rooms, our phone screens, and even our...

The naming of constellations is serious business. The ones you're probably most familiar with like the Big Dipper, Sagittarius, and...

They're not exactly grabbing for three-eyed alien toys at Pizza Planet, but engineers at NASA are using the same arcade game from...

There was a time when physics experiments could be carried out with two weighted balls and a tower in Pisa (although Galileo's famous...

For a space agency that just experienced one of the biggest spacecraft failures in recent memory, Russia's Roscosmos is playing it...

It has not been a good few weeks for NASA. With the Hubble Space Telescope still asleep and adrift in safe mode due to instrument...

It looks like we are unofficially in the middle of SpaceX season. After putting on a light show for the people of the West Coast with...

To boldly go where one Voyager has gone before! NASA is reporting that, according to a familiar increase in cosmic radiation, the...

After 28.5 years in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope is having some issues and is taking a (hopefully brief) break from its duties....

While astronomers are still trying to pin down the existence of Planet Nine lurking somewhere beyond our solar system, scientists...

Ever since missions like Kepler and K2 launched, the discovery of new exoplanets has become a little less exciting. Sure they're...

About a month ago, cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station discovered a hole in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that was slowly...

The work that astronauts do while orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station is important and not exactly easy, but there...

A few years ago, the Planck survey gave scientists a picture of where dark matter might be lurking across the universe. That survey...

On October 1, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration began its history-making operations in the United States....

For the past few years we've been excited by big announcements coming out of NASA, like the Deep Space Gateway and the deep-space...

Earlier this year, we got excited about NASA's newly announced asteroid defense plans, which included ramming potentially cataclysmic...

It has been a few months since NASA lost its $400 million Opportunity Rover to a dust storm on Mars, but at least now they have a...

Last April, a dogfighting AI pulled off the first kill on a human fighter pilot in a simulation (and boy, was it a shutdown), but now...

Earlier this week, we got to see the TESS spacecraft's "first light" images – the first photos a telescope takes after being fully...