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Ancient cosmic collissions between small bodies could explain quirk of early solar system formation

Early Earth could have lost as much as 40% of its mass during collisional growth.

NASA and Russia to work on new Lunar Space Station

It's good to see two old rivals work together.

Lava tubes on Moon and Mars might be habitats for future colonies

We might someday build cities inside lava tunnels on Mars.

Hubble snaps the first binary-asteroid comet we've ever seen

Asteroids of a feather flock together. Sometimes into a comet.

Mysterious high-energy cosmic rays fire from outside the galaxy

The brightest cosmic rays don't seem to be from the same neighborhood.

The Milky Way might not be your typical spiral galaxy but is it unique?

The Milky Way just got an ego boost.

Designer Oscar Lhermitte brings the moon to your fingertips

You can't get any more lunar than this without leaving the planet.

After exploring Venus' dark side, scientists find unexpected weather

Strange things happen in the dark.

Odd Jupiter-sized exoplanet is hot enough to melt metal but paradoxically pitch-black

It's the 'blackest' planet we've found.

Cassini spacecraft ends 20-year-old voyage in style, crashes into Saturn

We had a good run!

Gravity map reveals Martian crust might be lighter than we thought

Mars may be more porous than we thought.

Main asteroid belt might be a dump for planetary leftovers, new theory proposes

A strikingly different take on the asteroid belt's origin.

The first water map on the moon shines hope for human colony

There's less water than in Earth's driest deserts. But that's still a lot more than we used to hope.

Bacteria shapeshift in space in response to antibiotics, becoming far more resilient

Not good news for interplanetary travel.

Wrapping paper-like spacecraft might one day collect junk and throw it into Earth's atmospheric shredder

This may be crazy enough to work.

Elon Musk shares full-body pic of SpaceX's sleek astronaut suit

Space flight just got a lot sexier.

Voyager-1 spacecraft: 40 years of history and interstellar flight

Despite traveling more than ten billion miles in four decades, Voyager-1 is still at it.

More than a million years from now, our solar system will briefly house two stars

It will shine three times brighter than Mars in the night's sky. It might also cause an unpleasant stir in the Oort cloud...

Researchers find tantalizing evidence of mid-sized black hole in the Milky Way

If confirmed, this could indicate a remarkable progress in modern physics.

SpaceX completes critical test ahead of the first launch for world's most powerful operational rocket

This year is shaping up as SpaceX's best one yet.

Intelligent alien life hunters pick up 15 high-energy bursts far across the universe

The mysterious high-energy signals are unaccounted for. Alien technology is not excluded.

Astronomers just compiled the most detailed image of an alien star -- and it just looks stunning

This is 620 light-years away!

Dragonfly dual-quadcopter drone proposed to explore Titan to understand how life appeared

The final selection for New Horizons is expected in mid-2019.

Huge asteroid to safely pass by Earth on September 1st, NASA announces

Make sure to wave as it passes by.

This space probe is so small you could lose it in your backpack -- and it just got launched into space

Four grams worth of space explorer.

Diamond rain of Neptune and Uranus mimicked in the lab by scientists

Yes, on some planets it rains diamonds!

Waste not, want not: astronauts to turn pee into nutrients, tools on deep-space missions

Stay hydrated up there, ladies and gents.

TRAPPIST-1, the dwarf star with seven Earth-sized planets, is older than our solar system

This could be both good and bad for potential extraterrestrial life.

Hewlett Packard supercomputer to be delivered to the ISS next Monday

Time to dust off that old Skyrim dvd.

NASA will fly jets to chase the upcoming total eclipse to learn more about the sun

No, they don't want to chase away the eclipse. It's just science.

Scientists may have found the first exomoon. It looks like it's the size of Neptune

It's the best candidate for an alien moon we've encountered so far.

We really are made of star stuff: half of the atoms inside us come from intergalactic space

Aside from the romantic aspect, the study also offers an important scientific perspective.

Moon's mantle contains lots of water suggesting its interior is wet, study finds

The findings have big implications for future missions to the moon.

The Grand Finale: NASA plans to see Cassini off with a trail of fire as it crashes into Saturn

The Cassini spacecraft will get a burial place fit for such a long-trekked explorer: Saturn.

You can now take a virtual walk on the International Space Station. Here's how

It's the best place to get lost -- and trust me, you will.

NASA: We just can't afford to land humans on Mars

Oh boy...

Despite slowing solar activity, NASA spots larger-than-Earth sunspot

It seems like a freckle, but this freckle is larger than the Earth.

NASA releases dazzling images of Jupiter's Red Spot, makes them open for citizen scientists

It's awesome, it's very useful, and it's open for everyone to use.

Chemical compounds found in Martian soil suggest the planet's surface is highly toxic

The prospect of finding life on Mars is getting bleaker.

Russian space agency finally admits it's afraid of SpaceX and reveals how it plans to fight back

Can the Russians take on SpaceX?

This video ISS astronauts shot of the norther lights is just the thing to brighten up your day

Nature, being ridiculously cool since forever.

Man who thinks "God created heavens and Earth" to oversee US space program

"God created the heavens and the earth," he says.

Corrected satellite data shows 2.4 times faster warming than previously indicated

It also debunks one of climate deniers most cited argument.

Space Race 2.0: Japan wants to put a man on the Moon by 2030

The new space race seems to be shaping up in Asia.

NASA wants to celebrate its 100-year-anniversary -- with you!

Happy bday, NASA!

Gecko-inspired 'Velcro' could help cleanup our growing space junk problem

Inspired by nature, scientists tackle a sticky problem.

Orbiting supermassive black holes confirmed by astronomers for the time

This is one slow dance.

Curiosity caught on camera climbing Martian mountain by orbiting spacecraft

Can you make out Curiosity from this satellite photo?

Elon Musk shares his view of Mars colonization: one million people living in a self sustainable city

Shoot for the stars and you might just land on Mars.

Chinese satellite beams entangled particles over 1,200km away, sets the stage for unhackable quantum network

This is the beginning of the quantum internet.

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