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By 1972, the Vietnam War was close to its end, though it would still take three more years for Saigon to fall. In the wake of the...

Over the past year or so, different scientific studies have argued that so-called 'rogue planets' (ie, planets without a star to...

Just before Halloween, NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its 16th close flyby of Jupiter, snapping images just 4,400 miles above the...

If Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the Michael Jordan of astrophysics, Stephen Hawking was the Muhammad Ali. Thousands lined the streets for...

If there are galactic archaeologists, what about stellar homicide detectives? Scientists recently spotted a star called CPD 64°2731...

Is it good or bad things that come in threes? We'll find out soon enough: according to data from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object...

Two days ago, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day featured the mangled wreck of some kind of capsule, half-buried in the sand. In the...

If you've ever stood in front of a 4K television at your local electronics store, or if you're lucky enough to own one, then you know...

It seems like everyone's focus has been on Mars lately. With the numerous rovers and probes that are already focused on the planet and...

NASA is no stranger to amateur science enthusiasts criticizing their work, but Robert Zubrin, the President of the Mars Society, has...

An image in a recent update from NASA's Curiosity Rover mission has surprised the space agency's team of experts back here on Earth....

It's a day we all knew was coming, but now that it is actually here we're a little sad about it. According to Gizmodo, NASA...

What's big, strong, and faster than the speed of sound? Well, it's not Superman because he doesn't exist. Sorry. It's actually the new...

Earlier this month, NASA spotted something particularly bizarre while flying over the Antarctica: a perfectly formed iceberg with...

We've said this before, but we'll say it again: black holes are weird. Stephen Hawking once thought they were gateways to another...

Between 4,200 and 5,500 light years away from Earth in the constellation Scorpius lies a nebula with a familiar shape for those who...

Stephen Hawking apparently spent his last days sorting through some of the biggest, most mind-blowing problems in science, including...

After checking to make sure that it is plugged in and receiving power, one of the first steps in electronics troubleshooting is to...

There was an explosion at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida last week — but it was only water, and it wasn't...

There's something about the perfect right angles of rectangles that evokes human-ness. Our rooms, our phone screens, and even our...