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According to at least one scientific study, the Earth is poised to undergo some radical changes over the next century if we don't cut...

At this point, the "will they/won't they" relationship between Mars and some hypothetical form of microbial life has surpassed most...

Despite being a small moon orbiting ten times farther from the Sun than Earth, Titan is strikingly similar to Earth: it has a stable,...

Ms. Frizzle on The Magic School Bus warned us that sometimes with science you have to take chances, make mistakes, and get messy. It...

Yes, people are still pursuing humanity's dream of building a full-size space elevator, but the new structures proposed in a recent...

On the heels of Elon Musk's big reveal of the identity of the world's first space tourist to fly around the Moon, he's made another...

The JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Hayabusa2 probe arrived at the asteroid Ryugu this past June, but it's been waiting for...

Whether it involves warping space-time so much that you can effectively time travel or bringing a 'dead' star back to life, black...

If you thought the Arctic was home only to the mysterious skyglow known as STEVE, we have exciting news for you: scientists have taken...

Better known as ecstasy or MDMA, methylenedioxymethamphetamine is a psychoactive drug that is used recreationally to give people a...

Last April the ESA Gaia satellite released its first big dump of data, which gave astronomers the brightness, distances, and...

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

You've probably encountered error messages before: Error 404 (Page Not Found), Error 403 (Forbidden) or – if you're very lucky –...

When Stephen Hawking coined the term "spaghettification" to describe what happens when you're sucked into a black hole, we doubt he...

Last May, NASA's TESS spacecraft (short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) took its first test photo of the cosmos, but...

When scientists found a blood-sucking tick from the Cretaceous encased in amber, everybody went wild--"Michael Crichton was right!"...

There is either a crazy 007 movie set piece being filmed in secrecy out in the Pacific Ocean, or a team of scientists have just...

There's a lot of weird stuff floating around in space, including interstellar grease and at least one asteroid worth about $700...

If Breaking Bad did anything for science literacy, it was introducing the name 'Heisenberg' into pop culture. For those of you who...

There's only one emotional gut-punch worse than being told you have cancer, and that's being told your cancer came from...