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Dwarf satellite galaxies are challenging the standard cosmological model

We thought the Milky Way was special. Now, scientists have found a glitch elsewhere which challenges established physics.

The Search for Alien Life: We Have Been Looking in the Wrong Places

If there are any, aliens should be less conspicuous and charismatic-looking than most people think.

Russia is planning to offer tourists a trip to the ISS, spacewalks included

It would cost around $100 million a pop, though.

New panorama shows just how amazing Curiosity's journey has been on Mars

It's a breathtaking view!

Breathtaking panoramic view of Mars shows how far Curiosity has gone

We're looking at a view from millions of miles away. Take a moment to appreciate this fact.

Jodrell Bank, Earth's oldest radio telescope, nominated as UNESCO Site

The site has had an immense role to play in our understanding of the universe.

Cosmonaut blood reveals that our immune systems grind to a halt in space

This is definitely Not Good™.

Japanese Space Agency offers volunteers $3,500 to spend 14 days in a simulated space station

Explore what it's like to be in space, while also getting paid? What's not to like?!

Astrochemists can now study stars' magnetic fields using alcohol

Ah, alcohol. The basis of any sound science.

Amateur astronomer finds long-lost NASA satellite after 12 years of drifting around Earth's orbit

It just serves to show that hope is never lost.

Astronaut poop could one day be recycled into Marmite-like food

I never liked Marmite.

Two men and two women spent 200 days in a virtual Chinese moon base. Here's what happened

Preparations for the moon base are intensifying.

New Zealand startup launches huge 'disco ball' into space. It's now the brightest object in the night sky

It's supposed to be an art project, but you be the judge.

Trump wants to withdraw NASA's funding for the ISS as of 2024

It's the earliest date this is possible but this could leave American astronauts stranded on the ground.

Google-backed civilian race to the moon ends with no winner for $20 million prize

Ten years and four deadline extensions later, there's still no winner to show.

First Kenyan satellite to be launched into orbit in April or May

It's a big milestone for the African country.

Space might be teeming with viruses that we're not looking for, but we should

When the very large can't be found, maybe it's time to look for the very small.

This brave spacecraft will soon fly through the sun's atmosphere

A modern-day mechanical Icarus.

Tiny nuclear reactors might power the first Martian settlements

It's the first space-bound nuclear reactor in 50 years.

Find a 2.2-pound-chunk of the Michigan meteorite and you can win $20,000

It's raining money. Incandescent, rocky money.

Brewing beer on Mars? Students find Martian soil is suitable for growing hops

Brace yourselves for Martian craft beer!

NASA zooms in on one of the oldest galaxies with the help of a cosmic magnifying glass

It might teach us about how galaxies such as the Milky Way evolved.

SpaceX to test the world's most powerful operational rocket, the Falcon Heavy, later today

This is what Elon Musk hopes will put men on Mars.

China deems blasting space junk with a laser station is feasible

It's a super James Bond-esque idea.

Crowdsourcing astronomy: Citizen scientists discover new rocky planets locked in resonance

Citizen scientists found five "musical" exoplanet.

Cliffs of pure, blue water-ice spotted just below Mars' surface

That's a lot of water.

Meteorites carrying both water and organic compounds point to an ocean world "seeding life" in the universe

Why spread your seed across the Earth when you can spread it across space?

Strange interstellar stone discovered in Egypt is like nothing else found in the solar system

A unique cosmic stone challenges what we know about how the solar system formed.

Japanese astronaut didn't actually grow 3½" taller after only three weeks in space [UPDATE]

The astronaut apologized for the 'fake news'.

Millenniums-old rock art in India could be humanity's first record of a supernova

India was into astrophysics before it was cool.

What Curiosity found on Mars are probably just crystals -- not fossils

This is likely not our first brush with alien life.

Nearby star is like a 'Rosetta Stone' for understanding the sun's cycles and variability

Star can be capricious but understanding their mood swings is definitely worth it.

First topographic map of Titan reveals surprisingly Earth-like features

The intriguing moon Titan just became even more interesting.

China will grow potatoes on the dark side of the moon by the end of the year

A trifecta consisting of a lunar probe, lander, and rover will be deployed for this purpose.

Chinese space station will come crashing down in March, but it probably won't hit anyone

Doesn't hurt to stay under a roof while it happens, though.

Atmospheric methane on Mars changes with the seasons -- and we don't really know why

We don't want to say there's life on Mars... but there could be life on Mars.

Researchers measure the interior of two stars, find our models weren't quite right

Not everything is as we believed in the core of these hot bodies.

Supermassive black holes eventually stop star formation

Supermassive black holes slowly eject cold gas.

Astronauts identify microbes in space for the first time

We really do contaminate everything we touch -- and space is no exception.

Not so dry after all: Mars lost much of its water to the crust

Mars might be abundant in water. The problem is its trapped in minerals inside the planet's crust.

In the Pisces constellation, one star is busy devouring its own planetary offspring

Giving "family dinner" a whole new meaning.

Elon Musk shows off Falcon Heavy one month before its maiden flight

The stunning pictures capture the might of the soon-to-be 'most powerful rocket' in operation.

Jupiter is still a ridiculously beautiful place judging from Juno's pics, and here's how it does it

A dash of chemistry, a stroke of physics, all mixed in with behemothian mass.

Blue Origin makes first test flight in over a year, tests new Crew Capsule

The booster sent the unmanned crew capsule to the edge of space. They both soft landed on Earth later.

Boeing wants to beat SpaceX to Mars. Elon Musk: "Do it"

The two companies are in a direct competition, and we just can't have enough of it.

The International Space Station is mounting a new device to protect it from space junk

It's a sensor that will tell scientists how common small, but dangerous debris are.

Wildfires roar through Southern Cali as NASA and ESA satellites watch, powerless to intervene

Immense devastation has been wrought upon California this year.

Oldest black hole found by astronomers -- the gargantuan object lies 13 billion light years away from us

It's the farthest, oldest, and perhaps most mysterious object we've ever discovered.

Ginormous hydrogen clouds whizz around the Milky Way at phenomenal speeds

Scientists gain new insight into mysterious cloud formations traveling around the galaxy.

ISS bacteria is almost the same as in your home, and that's a good thing

Microbes seem at home in the space lab.

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