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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...

Robert Lightfoot, the current Acting Administrator of NASA, just announced his retirement today in a surprise statement. As of now,...

Dreams always have a feeling of impermanence to them.You might recall a few particularly vivid dreams for a while, but most of the...

Some people like to unwind by bingewatching Netflix. Some people like to curl up with a good book. But now, when someone asks you...

Since Neil deGrasse Tyson's big claim to fame is how he can break down astrophysics into laymen's terms, he's had to address the claim...

It's a tale as old as time: a Silicon Valley startup is denied permission by the government to launch satellites, so the...

Have you ever wanted to stand on the surface of Saturn and breathe a deep lungful of alien air?If so, you're going to have a bad time,...

As has been well documented, humanity is weirdly paranoid about the threat of giant deadly asteroids. Sure, life on Earth was almost...

In 2015, NASA began a study into how time in space alters the genetics of the human body. The foolproof method for undertaking this...

NASA's "InSight" Mars mission is coming up fast, and the space agency hopes to launch an advanced new lander to the Red Planet this...

NASA's Deep Space Gateway is finally taking shape--we already have an idea what it will look like, but only now are we starting to...

Ever since the Juno space probe arrived at Jupiter in 2016, we've been learning some absolutely fascinating things about the distant...

If you're looking for examples of balance and symmetry, look no further than nature. Here on Earth, there are countless examples...

This isn't good.A new study from NASA into the melting permafrost that covers much of the Arctic predicts that once the frost has...

Let's get a few things straight right out the gate: First, the scientist Erwin Schrödinger did more in his life than muse on the...

While it's always cool to see a detailed photograph of planets like Saturn, sometimes our space probes are capable of more artsy...