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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...

It's safe to say that astronomers and astrobiologists have spent thousands of hours trying to find the perfect exoplanet to harbor...

Starting this past January, the United Arab Emirate's Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) has been conducting interviews to...

With the Fourth of July just one day away, we thought it'd be fun to put all those M-80s and sparklers into perspective by showing you...

As the Hayabusa2 spacecraft studies the asteroid Ryugu and the OSIRIS REx mission closes in on the monster rock known as Bennu, a new...

Along with monkeys and dogs, mice are one of the few species that have racked up major frequent flyer miles on spacecraft, and now...

After introducing his theory of general relativity in 1915 and turning the scientific world on its head, Albert Einstein wasn't happy....

Astronauts have brought some strange things into space, including $2 bills, a penny-sized chip with art by Andy Warhol, and (most...

Despite tens of thousands of meteorites entering Earth's atmosphere each year, the vast majority of them burn up before they ever hit...

Using the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), a group of astronomers led by a team at...

Despite scientists claiming that a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak is pretty much impossible, researchers have created...

To get an idea of just a few of the requirements for a habitable, Earth-like planet, here's a short list: it has to orbit its star at...

Very few would argue the fact that Elon Musk has one of the most impressive minds of the 21st century when it comes to tech, complex...

You'd think that after 70 years, the Roswell crash site would be picked clean, but New Mexico geologist Frank Kimbler claims that...

When most people imagine space, they usually see it as a cold, empty void with some dust and gas floating around, but that's about it....

From Tokyo Rose's radio broadcasts to American soldiers blasting Van Halen to force out Panamanian dictators, breaking the will of an...

An international cohort of scientists analyzing data from mass spectrometers aboard NASA's Cassini space probe have discovered...

The Hubble Telescope has captured some amazing images from space, but the new image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE...