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Of all the things for NASA to get involved in, landslide prediction is probably one of the more surprising.   Between the new...

The Curiosity Rover is easily the most popular object on Mars right now. Nearly all of NASA's Mars rovers have had the same "face",...

A lot of fuss has been made over the past few weeks about Bennu, a giant asteroid that has a 2000 to 1 chance of crashing into the...

In the 2002 sci-fi movie Simone, an ambitious movie director creates an entirely fake CGI actress to play a starring role in a movie....

Famous astronomer Charles Messier was known for tracking down comets in the 1700s — however, he kept finding more stationary objects...

Day by day, hour by hour, humanity continues to doom itself.We've long since stopped passing points of no return with regards to...

For their most important missions, NASA will sometimes create a power source from their very limited supply of plutonium-232, a rare...

By this point in our planet's ongoing journey towards environmental ruin, we're all well aware of the fact that the bees are...

The successor to previous Mars rovers like Curiosity and Opportunity is launching in just a couple years (although those older rovers...

We've seen field tests, but we're not at the point where self-driving or autonomous cars are a widespread phenomenon. But when that...

Maybe you love spring because of the nice weather, or maybe you hate it because of all the bugs and allergies that come with it. But...

Scott Kelly and Mark Kelly are both astronauts and twin brothers who've been helping NASA with a fascinating experiment — Scott...

Fact: staring directly at the sun is a bad idea. The bright light from our planet's star can cause genuine retinal damage to anyone...

Earlier this month, we reported on NASA's new plan to deflect the asteroid Bennu, which involves a new spacecraft called the HAMMER....

Despite living in the highly advanced 21st century, there's still some things we do the old fashioned way. For example, our list of...

Launched back in 2009, the Kepler spacecraft/telescope was designed to search for Earth-like exoplanets orbiting around distant...

When a series of purple lights with flourishes of green appeared in the northern hemisphere, professionals and amateurs alike...

We're all constantly spinning.From the atoms that make up out DNA to the planet we live on, to even out galaxy itself and all the...

NASA's New Horizons space probe is currently flying through the farthest outskirts of our solar system, having recently left a close...

Increasingly, scientists are becoming convinced that life on Earth must have started in space.The prevailing theory, which is gaining...