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You wouldn't think that studying dust is important, but if we hope to find more Earth-like exoplanets out there, looking at space dust...

Researchers recently made a surprising discovery while conducting a long-term study of spiders in Western Australia when one of their...

Never assume that a star is too big to steal. If you carelessly leave some spare hydrogen lying around, it'll snatch that right up in...

Jeff Bezos, a multi-billionaire with an uncanny resemblance to comics supervillain Lex Luthor, would naturally be interested in...

Currently, NASA only has a handful of active technology on/orbiting the Moon, preferring to set their sights on Mars and other spots...

From Inception to the anime classic Paprika, science-fiction is filled with devices that let people manipulate dreams. Though...

You probably heard about the Gaia satellite's new, super-precise star map of the Milky Way earlier this week, but it looks like...

Despite our fascination with far-off galaxies and distant exoplanets, it turns out the humble Milky Way is still surprising...

Most people imagine generation ships as being giant ring-worlds, like Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora, or gleaming metal ships, like...

The early universe is still in many ways a mystery, but we do have some idea of what it looks like thanks to light from distant...

A piece of Mars will soon be coming back to Earth. A whole clump of Mars, actually, and possibly more than that.NASA and the European...

Apart from the Moon landing and Nazi super-technology, the assassination of John F. Kennedy probably takes the cake for the sheer...

The Holy Grail of astrobiology is still discovering liquid water on an alien planet, but scientists still aren't sure where Earth got...

What's creepier than an old, desiccated mummy or a skeleton with a prosthetic knife-hand? How about an 11-foot-tall ominous wooden...

Neanderthals may have ended up as an evolutionary dead end, but at least they were artists (apparently). Though they may not have...

Sloths nowadays are pretty mellow animals. But that wasn't always the case: up until around 11,000 years ago, the dreaded...

Thanks to the recent flurry of exoplanet discoveries over the past few years, we've managed to find both similar planets to the ones...

When you file a Freedom of Information Act request, you're most likely going to get a lot of dry government documents and records that...

Astronomers have been upping their game recently: the Hubble Telescope celebrated its 28th anniversary by taking photos of the Lagoon...

No man wants to catch a bullet between their legs, but one anonymous soldier lost his legs below the knees and his member in an IED...