If you're wondering how much we know about black holes, the answer is... less than you think. With new discoveries being made...
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Earth's closest neighbor is going to be even closer soon, and this should give stargazers a reason to be excited.During July 2018,...
Getting a rover or orbital probe to Mars takes an extraordinary amount of power and top-of-the-line technology from modern space...
As it becomes more common to discover exoplanets in distant (or nearby) solar systems, we're starting to see more variety in the weird...
Mars has to deal with a lot of meteor impacts, having somewhere around 635,000 craters dotting the entire planet.And the Mars...
Stephen Hawking passed away just over two months ago, but the legendary theoretical physicist will live on forever through his...
As live-streaming becomes more commonplace, it's a wonder that NASA's Twitch account isn't more widely known. After all, nobody else...
Obviously, it's a good thing that we don't have any black holes too close to our solar system, but occasionally we get a good reminder...
NASA is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to scientific research: Between the Hubble and Chandra telescopes, the multiple...
The 2015 Dawn mission to explore the dwarf planet Ceres may not have turned up evidence of life, but it did find the next best thing:...
Recycling and reusing materials to make something new is a good thing, but there are exceptions to every rule. If reports streaming...
Over the past week, NASA's Opportunity rover has found itself in the middle of an encroaching Martian dust storm that's approximately...
When astronomers talk about observing the "cosmic background radiation," you might think it's the sort of signal that can only be...
Despite all the unknowns surrounding black holes--what they look like, what happens to the matter that falls in, and how many are...
According to official NASA policy, anything brought to Earth from the surface of the Moon is immediately the property of the United...
As humanity watches Earth's major powers prepare to colonize the Solar System, most of the questions are practical--how will we...
Scientists have searched high and low on this planet for materials left over from the creation of our solar system to no avail. Things...
One thing that the Hubble Space Telescope is very good at is tracking down galactic collisions. Regardless of how common it is for...
As Neil DeGrasse Tyson is fond of saying, "We are all stardust." Zooming out a bit, however, reveals that almost everything is...