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While the Hubble telescope is a phenomenal achievement, it has its limitations.Even the most powerful telescope satellite in orbit...

NASA's flying telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, is able to intimately capture data in...

For years, we’ve accepted that one the greatest and most mysterious things about black holes is the fact that we just can’t see...

2021 will see a momentous occasion as we continue to explore our galaxy. This is the year that the Star-Planet Activity Research...

If you thought comets were just flashy rocks that show up every now and then to entertain stargazers, you're in for a surprise.  ...

Far away, in a distant dwarf galaxy, something may be trying to get our attention. Since 2016, scientists have been baffled by the...

A Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) led team of engineers and researchers from the Penn State Department of Aerospace...

NASA scientists must be breathing a sigh of relief at the moment, as the high-powered Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope...

Following the public discovery that the US military has genuinely been secretly investigating UFO reports, a number of prolific...

One of the coolest things about quantum mechanics is the way that this branch of science seems to regularly contradict all commonly...

Astronaut John Young has walked on the moon, flown to the moon twice, flown the space shuttle six times, and generally had an...

NASA's Cassini probe has managed to be really helpful since it crashed into Saturn, and that trend's continuing now. This time, data...

Since a year on Mars is about 120 days longer than an Earth year, it's on a very different schedule. And that means that NASA's...

When a probe is fired off into the vastness of space, suffice to say that it doesn't reach its destination quickly. It's a long...

There's no denying it: Jupiter is an utterly amazing sight to behold, even if it's a place you'd never want to visit in person.A new...

Of all the various celestial phenomena that exists out beyond the boundaries of our own world, few are as fascinating as brown dwarf...

As we learn more about Mars, many find themselves disappointed that we haven't spotted any bug-eyed green aliens living on the...

The moon is approximately 238,855 miles away from the Earth, on average (these things can fluctuate slightly). This seems like a big...

Between Elon Musk's claim that we're all living in the Matrix and the idea that the inside of the Earth is populated by aliens, there...

It seems like the Earth's new global asteroid defense system is doing its job: we've spotted an approaching asteroid the size of a...