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

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...

For the past several weeks, the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii's big island has been destroying homes and forcing nearby residents to...

Do you think you have what it takes to be an astronaut? Are you no-nonsense and good at working alone? Because that won't help...

Alan Bean, an Apollo astronaut and artist who counted himself among the very few humans to ever walk on the Moon, has passed away this...

This past Tuesday, an otherwise routine launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sparked a viral sensation by also sparking a grass fire...

Astronomers around the world have been amping their search for planets in distant solar systems (especially NASA, who has the...

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: an engine which could power a spacecraft without any fuel, relying simply on the vacuum...

Despite being a haven for life, Earth has some pretty inhospitable environments--the deep ocean has enough darkness, low temperatures,...

Ice cores, long vertical samples taken from glaciers and ice sheets, can tell us a lot about the past — details in each individual...

It's strange to think that our first close-up images of Pluto only came in 2015, a whopping 85 years after it was discovered. In fact,...

Back in 2011, a Martian meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert. The official name of the 320-gram rock is Northwest Africa (NWA)...

NASA may be preparing a more advanced version of their Curiosity rover to launch in 2020, but ideally, they still want to keep the...

When the Orbital ATK Antares rocket launches from Virginia tomorrow, it'll send a fascinating new experiment up to the International...

This Monday, May 21, 2018, will be business as usual for NASA as they launch another rocket carrying supplies to the International...

While Curiosity has been an effective Mars rover, both in what it's discovered and how it's become the anthropomorphized public face...

Almost exactly a month ago, NASA launched TESS up into space, so that their "Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite" could begin its...

Despite the resistance to fighting climate change that we still have to deal with, some aspects of our planet are improving due to...

As our search for Earth-like exoplanets (which are simply planets in other solar systems) continues, one of the key things we look for...

Just in case something apocalyptic ever happened to Earth, wouldn't it be great if we had a backup collection of knowledge...