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It's not going to save you 100% of the time, but if you could travel with armor on your back all day every day, you'd stand a better...

Hello, space police? We'd like to report a crime scene. While studying Chandra X-Ray Observation data, NASA reports that a group of...

If we were to host a system-wide beauty contest among the planets and accepted natural satellites as a valid skill, Jupiter would...

A father and son team of scientists at the Universities of Canterbury and Otago in New Zealand have made history with the first 3D...

If you're like us, you've been impatiently waiting for your chance to board a rocket and fly into space since you were a little kid....

The biggest payday in history is sitting one hundred miles beneath Earth’s surface. Scientists from MIT – with scholars at ten...

Sometimes in life you get more than you bargained for – NASA has just confirmed that a near-Earth asteroid is actually two asteroids...

CRISPR technology has come under a lot more public scrutiny in the past few weeks thanks in part to a cautionary segment by John...

Today marks the United Arab Emirates Space Agency’s fourth anniversary on the world stage as a competitive player in space and...

Exciting new evidence has revealed that an exoplanet 11 short light-years away from Earth may have all the qualities necessary to...

Quasars are the brightest things in the universe. Astronomers have spotted several of them recently – but the discovery of PSO...

After two failed attempts, the Russian space agency Roscosmos has successfully sent a cargo freighter to the ISS via a new "fast...

During its final orbits around Saturn, which culminated in a fiery, destructive Grand Finale, Cassini managed to pick up something...

Elon Musk has been flirting with the line between eccentric visionary and Bond villain for years, but his latest proposal sounds more...

For midwesterners, fireworks weren't the only things worth staring up at the sky for during this long holiday weekend. Hundreds of...

For years, Earth has been bombarded by cosmic rays emanating from a mysterious source astronomers couldn't identify. Now, new...

Today marks Earth's aphelion, the point in its orbit when we are farthest from the Sun! If you want to be exact, aphelion occurred...

If you suffer from arachnophobia and clicked on this story anyway, go ahead and add agoraphobia to the list while you set up Amazon...

Just two days into their search for a giant meteorite that crashed off the coast of Washington State, Dr. Marc Fries and the crew of...

Like the formation of Earth's Moon, Uranus' radical tilt has been a mystery for decades. The planet is so skewed that its equator sits...