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A few years ago, the Planck survey gave scientists a picture of where dark matter might be lurking across the universe. That survey...

Earlier this year, the long-standing theory that the "building blocks of life" on Earth were seeded by meteorites got a big boost when...

One of the most-hyped fears about the Large Hadron Collider before it was first turned on was the theory that it might inadvertently...

On October 1, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration began its history-making operations in the United States....

For the past few years we've been excited by big announcements coming out of NASA, like the Deep Space Gateway and the deep-space...

Between the TESS spacecraft's newly discovered pair of exoplanets and Gaia's ability to chart the position and movement of literally...

On Thursday, the United Launch Alliance announced a partnership with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin following an...

Los Alamos scientists joked about the Manhattan Project's nuclear bomb test setting the Earth's atmosphere on fire, but it turns out...

With a name that translates to "a giant thunderclap at dawn," the dinosaur species that was recently discovered by researchers in...

If you thought CGI social media celebrities were a troubling new trend, consider the theory that social media encourages 'social...

Earlier this year, we got excited about NASA's newly announced asteroid defense plans, which included ramming potentially cataclysmic...

No matter how you slice it, astronomers have discovered a lot of exoplanets in the Milky Way galaxy--3,779, to be exact--and between...

If you paid attention in science class, you know that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere – it's an "oblate spheroid" that bulges at...

We've made a lot of discoveries about Oumuamua since it streaked into our solar system last November, but the mystery of its origins...

Well, it's been a banner two weeks for SpaceX: they've given new updates on their BFR rocket, announced the first space tourist to go...

According to at least one scientific study, the Earth is poised to undergo some radical changes over the next century if we don't cut...

At this point, the "will they/won't they" relationship between Mars and some hypothetical form of microbial life has surpassed most...

Despite being a small moon orbiting ten times farther from the Sun than Earth, Titan is strikingly similar to Earth: it has a stable,...

Ms. Frizzle on The Magic School Bus warned us that sometimes with science you have to take chances, make mistakes, and get messy. It...

Yes, people are still pursuing humanity's dream of building a full-size space elevator, but the new structures proposed in a recent...