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As the Hubble Space Telescope frequently surveys the observable universe, it likes to remind us how frequently galaxies seem to...

The Dawn spacecraft first made a pass around the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015, and its findings were fascinating enough that NASA...

Remember when everyone was afraid that colliding tiny particles together with the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that...

It seems like astronomers get to explore all the cool mysteries: What black holes look like, how big the Milky Way is, whether an...

When a six-mile-wide asteroid single-handedly kills 75 percent of life on Earth and leaves a crater over a hundred miles wide, you'd...

Both Jupiter and Saturn have lots of moons, and some of them like Europa could possibly support life. But they're hindered greatly by...

Dunes on another planet may not seem like an especially important find, but they actually only appear under specific conditions. "Lots...

A bunch of weirdly entrancing videos have come out this year of pro basketball players moving in perfect synchronicity with one...

We may finally have a science/sci-fi crossover story to beat cell phones (famously inspired by Star Trek's communicators): A team of...

Whether aliens end up being squid-faced monstrosities or Wookiees, if they've got the intelligence and appropriate gripping...

For all its wonders and mysteries just waiting to be discovered, outer space has no pizza. And that is deeply unfortunate.It's...

At first glance, the reptile Megachirella wachtleri pictured above looks like a normal lizard. And it should — it's the direct...

Some of the wonders of the universe look like the Ant Nebula: giant, iridescent patterns splashed across the face of the void....

If NASA can spot a tiny exoplanet millions of miles away just by catching the momentary dip in brightness as it passes in front of a...

When the New York Times first ran its story on the Pentagon's secret UFO program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification...

China's been working on a sizable new space station for several years, and assuming they don't run into more space station troubles...

Last year, the consulting linguist for the film Arrival, Jessica Coon, burst a lot of people's bubbles at Silicon Valley Comic-Con...

Earlier this month, we reported that acidic streams in a small region of Dorset, UK, could give astrobiologists a template for how to...

Since Fermi's first conversation with fellow scientists in 1950, the Fermi Paradox has haunted astrobiologists and astronomers with...

While William Shatner is best known for portraying daring space captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek, he has a tendency to end up in...