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Regardless of your vantage point during a rocket launch, it's impossible to see the whole thing. If you're on the ground then you...

Earlier this week, NASA said they had an announcement regarding Mars which they planned to share on Thursday.And now we know what...

These objects should get pulled apart when they get close to the black hole. Instead, they keep themselves together and keep orbiting,

Despite its enormous size and gaseous composition being completely alien to Earth, at least Jupiter's lightning strikes look familiar...

Sometimes it's the steps that look insignificant at first that turn out to be the most instrumental. Such is the case with NASA's new...

While there are still various plans underway to get human-made tech and eventually humans to set up shop on Mars, some aerospace...

The future of the International Space Station is very unsteady, but we know what the recently appointed head of NASA is hoping for. It...

About 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away, close to the outer edges of our solar system, a quiet space probe has just...

In sci-fi movies, when a space object is hurtling towards Earth it's a really big deal. There are countdown clocks, scientists running...

Anybody who got to watch astronaut Chris Hadfield rock out to David Bowie's Space Oddity from the International Space Station (ISS)...

For non-astronomers, it's easy to imagine that the edge of the solar system is simply the point where nothing is orbiting around the...

A typical spacecraft is large, bulky, and extremely expensive. A CubeSat is not a typical spacecraft.CubeSats are a fairly new and...

When the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, a scientific agency that studies Earth's oceans and skies)...

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...

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

Does any natural force endure more in the human psyche than the Sun? For purposes both practical and spiritual, pragmatic and social,...

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

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