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Over the last seven months, technicians at Lockheed Martin have been carefully welding together the components of the capsule of the...

New Horizons has already broken new ground and made headlines with its first-ever close-up photos of Pluto and even found evidence for...

It sounds like one of those old Sci-Fi Channel original movies (the New York Times even called it "The Snake That's Eating Florida"),...

Residents of Beijing are all too familiar with the physical health effects of air pollution--like the 'Beijing cough'--but a new study...

After carrying out several successful deliveries to the International Space Station, SpaceX is poised to become the first private...

If you've seen Jurassic Park then you probably remember the scene where they are given a crash course in the science of bringing...

There's a hundred different ways to look at the Earth, from heat maps to magnetic imaging, but one dimension that's particularly...

If you ever need a practical example of scientific problem-solving in action, consider the lionfish, dubbed "the poster child for...

Have you ever looked up at the stars and wondered which ones are already dead? It's common knowledge that it can take starlight a long...

Welp, that's another country that we can cross off the list of potential vacation destinations. It's fun to travel to places like...

Between drafting plans to protect Earth from giant asteroids, laying the groundwork for the Deep Space Gateway, and testing a new...

By now, it's generally accepted that the Russian Internet Research Agency meddled in the US' 2016 presidential election, but new...

The Russian arms manufacturer Kalashnikov has come a long way from making rifles--not only have they unveiled a new line of electric...

According to NASA, the announcement of the Orion marked the first time in a generation that NASA had unveiled a spacecraft built for...

While NASA's OSIRIS REx mission heads to the asteroid Bennu and JAXA's Hayabusa2 investigates Ryugu, another asteroid has decided to...

For the past few years, scientists have waffled between warning that the Earth's magnetic poles could flip at any time (with...

When you find out that elephants need to eat between 200-600 pounds of food a day, or that hummingbirds have to consume half their...

If Chris Hadfield's recording sessions aboard the ISS didn't impress you, how about a zero-gravity tennis throwdown? Yesterday, NASA...

Everyone remembers the spinning top and Leonardo's squinting face from Inception, but you might not remember the name of the drug...

We like to think of the scientific community as being a group of Very Serious Individuals™ committed to approaching natural...