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As non-luminous particles floating around in space, dark matter has become one of the most fascinating--and difficult to...

It's a big day for NASA: New Mars lander InSight just passed its crucial first test in its ability to search for alien life on the...

Conspiracy theorists are accusing NASA of an unprecedented cover-up, following the discovery of footage of what has been described as...

It sounds like the plot to a sequel to Gravity. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ran intro trouble today...

Sci-fi is filled with fantastic tales of multiverses--an infinite cosmic tapestry of universes wherein alternate realities play out in...

Believe it or not, there has never been an African-American crew member aboard the International Space Station. That was until last...

One of the quickest ways to cause a space-related panic (besides news of an imminent alien invasion) is to tell people that an...

Humanity has reached somewhat of a dead end in our search for alien life in the universe.We've looked on the surface of Mars, we've...

On Thursday, NASA and the Department of Energy convened at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas to explain their joint...

The sun is losing mass very, very slowly. This is mostly normal —  as it goes about its nuclear fusion process, it gradually...

Being some of the larger things we've seen in the universe, a galaxy colliding with another galaxy is no small affair, and it can be...

As you perhaps already know, Jupiter is an absurdly beautiful planet.Last year, NASA began releasing photos of our solar system's...

Explorers with the Great Maya Aquifer Project just discovered that two large underwater caverns on the Yucatan Peninsula are...

When you first see the NASA footage of what appears to be two XBOX 360s flying through Earth's atmosphere, it's pretty...

The world is still adjusting to the discovery that the Pentagon maintained a secret UFO program for over the past half a...

Last year, scientists used gravitational waves to detect the merger of two enormous neutron stars, far away in the NGC 4993 galaxy.The...

A new discovery from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute and the Mars Institute may have uncovered an...

At an official facility in Nevada, the US government is currently testing a prototype miniature nuclear reactor that should one...

It often seems like the line between conspiracy theorist and pulp science fiction is quite thin, as endless streams of new fantastical...

The wondrous discoveries that have been made by the Cassini space probe continue to astound scientists, long after the hardworking...