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The sun likely has a lost twin called 'Nemesis', as do most stars like it

It sounds like the plot of a bad movie -- but it's just science.

Jupiter is likely the oldest planet in the solar system

This fatty likely had a great influence on how other later planets formed in the early solar system, including Earth.

Jupiter now officially has 69 moons. There are likely more to be confirmed

The massive gas giant likely adopted the cosmic bodies when they came too close to Jupiter's gravitational pull.

IKEA is already preparing to design Mars furniture

IKEA prepares for outer space.

Scientists develop largest simulation of the Universe to find dark matter

It's an impressive achievement.

ISS astronauts will bake the first crumb-free, space bread in 2018

One small step for bread, one giant leap for mankind.

After record number of applications, NASA announces the future generation of astronauts

Take a good look at these people. A few years from now, they will be conducting research off the Earth and in deep space.

NASA discovers unusual deep pit on Mars' South Pole

NASA doesn't know yet what could have caused it.

Another Einstein predication is confirmed by scientists: gravitational lensing measures star's mass for the 1st time

Einstein -- right again!

Citizen scientists discover new cold star close to our solar system

In this day and age, everyone can be a scientist.

Scorching exoplanet is hotter than most stars. It's so hot it might even leave a trail of atomic gas like a comet

That's one hot tomato!

Curiosity rover finds that its landing crater on Mars could have been habitable for 700 million years

We don't know whether Mars held life... but there's certainly a lot of potential.

Gravitational waves observed for the third time, opening new, unexplored paths in physics

The thrilling discovery is confirmed.

Japan launches satellite to generate its own, better GPS

Positioning errors will be decreased by a factor of 100.

Nothing can escape a black hole's clutch -- and this proves Einstein's Theory of Relativity (again)

Ready to sink your teeth into some black holes?

Halos on Mars suggest the red planet may have been hospitable for far long longer than thought

Life had more time to appear or even thrive on Mars than we imagined.

For the first time ever, we've seen a black hole being silently born -- no supernova required

Why blow up when you can mass up?

Latest results from Juno mission reveal massive surprises about Jupiter

Think you know Jupiter? Think again!

Mouse space sperm could pave a new era of space exploration

Space sperm to the rescue!

Ellen Ochoa and Michael Foale join the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame

The best of the best.

Physicists propose new, donut-shaped planetary body: the synestia

Homer Simpson would have been impressed. D'oh!

Terraforming Mars: what it is and why we'd do something this crazy

Two planets are better than one. Here's everything you need to know about Mars terraformation.

We've (unknowingly) created a radiation shield around the Earth using radios

Can your Internet landline do this? No.

This 18-year-old Indian designed the world's lightest satellite. NASA will launch it into space soon

Be more like him.

It used to rain so hard on Mars it shaped the planet's geology

A first of its kind study found rain on Mars was quite abundant.

Puffy exoplanet is as dense as styrofoam. The unusual find could help find habitable alien planets

An extraordinarily inflated planet could prove very lucrative in our quest to find other habitable planets.

China plans to have an asteroid mining base up and running "in the near future"

Epic loot.

Scientists find water clouds and exotic, primitive atmosphere on a "warm Neptune"

We didn't even know this kind of planet can exist.

Largest lava lake in the solar system makes massive waves

On Io, the floor is basically lava.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy -- the most powerful rocket in the world -- is nearly ready

Heavy metal in space.

Stunning image of the Crab Nebula put together from five telescopes' worth of data

Breathtaking.

Defunct dish turned into a radio telescope in Ghana with the help of Google Maps

Not your typical junkyard story.

Tanzania's blood-red lake snapped from space by NASA

Pretty. And pretty deadly.

This is why space armor is becoming more important

Things are getting pretty dicey in outer space.

Unmanned US plane lands after two-year secret mission

Its purpose still remains a mystery.

Stephen Hawking revises his deadline for humans escaping Earth -- it's now just 100 years

Darn.

SpaceX will launch three times more satellites than there currently are in orbit to give you fast internet

The first satellites could appear in 2019.

Want to work on NASA's software and get paid for it? You'll love this challenge

Enter the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge.

Watch amazing footage of Cassini diving towards Saturn

It's a one in a lifetime experience.

Cassini heard 'the big empty' when it dived through Saturn and its rings

The song before the 'grand finale'.

Morning glory seeds are hardy enough to survive in space, experiment reveals

Seeds -- the tiny bunkers of life.

Despite spending $200 million, NASA still doesn't have a new space suit and that could delay an important deep space mission

Internal auditors weren't happy with the way NASA is making new space suits.

China and Europe have talks to build a 'Moon Village' together

The two are already collaborating on important science projects.

Ancient carvings show comet struck Earth, triggering mini Ice Age

When you can correlate computer models of comets with carvings from 13 millennia ago -- that's got to feel good.

NASA is designing small away-from-home-ecosystems to make space exploration sustainable

Recycle everything!!!

We're launching a horde of tiny satellites, and that might eventually make space flight unusable

Space junk is cluttering space. One day, we might not be able to launch anything anymore.

Newly found exoplanet might be the best place yet to hunt for alien life

Such discoveries keep piling up. We can only rejoice.

All the ingredients for alien life: NASA finds hydrogen spewing out of Saturn's icy moon, likely propelled from hydro-thermal vents

Both Enceladus and Europa seem capable of supporting alien life, according to a major NASA announcement.

NASA to make tantalizing announcement about water worlds later today

NASA is doing the old 'announcement of an announcement,' and we're absolutely falling for it.

Venus does tectonics without any plates -- and it's possible young Earth did it too

Goddesses... always have to stand out, don't they?

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