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There are two kinds of people on this planet. Some people thoroughly enjoy the cathartic experience of popping or cracking their...

Mars doesn't experience earthquakes (or rather, "marsquakes") in the same way Earth does, because Mars doesn't have appear to have...

Despite how little we know about dark matter, we can tell when it's there, from the way it impacts galaxies and causes strange...

Star Trek has lied to you.If at some point, human beings encounter an alien species, they almost certainly won't look like us, but...

Mercury is special among the planets in our solar system for a number of reasons (not least because Han Solo has been spotted frozen...

Once it's finally in space, the James Webb Space Telescope will be one of the most powerful telescopes in NASA's arsenal. Which is...

Mars, the closest planet to the Earth, is a barren wasteland.The world has no atmosphere, and its surface is covered in dust and rock,...

When SpaceX successfully launched their Falcon Heavy rocket last month, they didn't just launch a car into space. They made a pretty...

Supernovas pack a lot of punch, to put it lightly--they can outshine galaxies and expel more energy than our Sun's lifetime output,...

Imagine being NASA scientist Jill Tarter.Imagine dedicating yourself to the study of the stars, and to trying to find alien life...

Now that we're improving our exoplanet-finding techniques (which can be tough when distant starlight tends to drown them out), we've...

Despite so many projected White House budgets proposing cuts to NASA funding, with suggestions to cancel certain projects like the...

Lots of cosmic objects are given interesting nicknames, from the Cartwheel galaxy to the "Penguin and Egg" galaxy. So perhaps it...

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...