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The Milky Way galaxy is on an eating spree.
Our galaxy still holds many secrets.
A new take on the whole 'twinkle twinkle' thing.
We'll learn more about our own home in the process, things that we never could here on Earth.
The theory shows that as long as Earth's interior stays hot, it should avoid this fate.
Something as simple as a snowflake melting can be very difficult to understand.
The elusive dark matter surprises us once again... this time by being absent.
But this could spell trouble for some satellites.
Not your typical stellar explosion.
If you happened to be alive 70,000 years ago, you'd be in for quite a show.
We're still learning much from our interstellar visitor.
Meet a shimmering purple ribbon of plasma called Steve.
Another discovery that cements black holes' fundamental role in the evolution of the universe.
A song of fire and water, on Mars.
The AIs are getting better and better.
It will have time to find just a couple more candidate exoplanets.
They're after the Moby Dick of space.
Ceres doesn't get as much love as Pluto, but perhaps it should.
Three of the newly-discovered planets are so-called super-Earths.
Regardless of their size, all galaxies that just as long to come full circle.
Space exploration made easy.
There's no need to panic, but these aren't exactly happy news.
Another audacious claim from quite possibly the boldest man on Earth.
The findings could lead to a new class of electronics like flexible LEDs.
All work and no food would make the colonists very sad. Also very, very dead.
It's a trove of valuable data, but we're still just scratching the surface.
Mars is still full of surprises.
It's a completely unexpected discovery.
It uses air molecules as fuel to beat drag.
How were they able to hide for so long?
This odd world hundreds of light-years away could teach us about how planets in our solar system formed.
It's an exciting time to be a scientist.
A team of researchers forced bacteria to create carbon-silicon bonds, and their experiment showcases why life on our planet chose carbon.
Homer Simpson is drooling over this story.
We've learned a lot about the early universe.
Its wider than a football field.
Life, as they say, finds a way.
These stars are bending the laws of physics.
A rare and beautiful view of Jupiter from a novel angle.
It's like an ISS, but for the Moon!
A cosmic record breaker.
Another one bites the dust.
The ancients often got it wrong about science -- but they weren't that far off.
Good thing Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun.
The meteorite will be used in NASA's ambitious Mars 2020 mission.
Because it would be dumb.
There's a man-made shuttle at the edge of the solar system, taking photos. It's mind bending.
Titan's "water" isn't even water.
It's the longest Russian spacewalk and the fifth-longest spacewalk in human spaceflight history.
They've found planets in another galaxy -- if that's not jaw-dropping, I don't know what is.
