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It must be hard to be an astronomer or astrophysicist--every week, a new discovery (like Swift J0243.6+6124) seems to challenge their...

Considering NASA has one of the most extensive carbon dioxide-monitoring programs on the planet and an entire website devoted to...

We may think of space as a vast, untouched frontier, but the truth is that there's already about 18 million pounds of junk floating...

There were a lot of things keeping Stephen Hawking awake at night, but among the top three were the imminent AI revolution, the...

When it's not teaching AI how to create fake photos that look totally real, Google and its associated companies are taking big strides...

Sending your DNA off to a genealogy company like 23 and Me and filling the gaps in your family tree has become a fascinating little...

If you thought the announcement of the first air-to-air drone kill or the unveiling of Russia's new bipedal military mech was cause...

If you went through public school in the last fifteen years, odds are that your math tests included a space for an answer and a...

At around 4:40 AM today, two astronauts set out to the ISS aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. Less than two minutes into that flight,...

Astrobiology has always been at the fringes of NASA's science programs, and the last time it tried to break into the big-time with the...

Mount Etna may not spew out as much lava as Hawaii's Kilauea volcano (which has been erupting for months), but it's not an eruption...

If you're not rich enough to buy a trip around the Moon with SpaceX (like Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa), the next best thing is...

Even Magic Leap's CEO Rony Abovitz admits that all the hype surrounding the release of the company's new headset, which took several...

Between new techniques to de-age cells and transplant faces, modern medical technology has come a long way. Now, it appears that...

By now, most of us are familiar with the 'Invisible Gorilla' experiment, which shows how selective our attention can be, but now a...

The ocean is a puzzle that scientists are still working overtime to solve, and one piece of that puzzle has just been snapped into...

It sounds like the kind of story you tell to scare small children today: "If you're a naughty child, a giant bird will come and eat...

Ufologist Scott C. Waring calls it  "Absolute proof that aliens are active in Mexico," which is a pretty bold claim for (probably)...

And all this time we thought the people of Pompeii and the surrounding areas got off relatively easy in 79 AD — sure, being covered...

For years, astronomers have struggled to find what exactly is causing the mysterious phenomenon known as "fast radio bursts:" the...