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While the size of Mars' moons is laughable, some scientists believe the Red Planet used to have many more moons.
Shouts of joy filled the air as Juno's success became evident and the shuttle enrolled on the gas giant's orbit.
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Mars is full of secrets, but we're unraveling them one by one.
One of the first science classes children take teaches them about the water cycle on the planet. But how did water get here in the first place?
But maybe our neighbour wasn't always so red-faced after all.
NASA’s Space Launch System will be the most powerful rocket humanity has ever built and 2020 onwards, it should make history as the craft that put man on Mars.
Food grown on Mars has been officially declared edible.
NASA always gets the best of everything.
India's space agency is taking huge strides forward.
This is some scary stuff.
Not much bigger than an apartment building, 2016 HO3 has been confirmed as Earth's newest satellite.
They may be more common than we thought.
Thousands of light years away, a two-handed molecule might help us unravel the secrets of life.
Mars will be very safe and very comfortable one day. But first it's going to be harsh and unwelcoming.
The vibrant night's sky that has enchanted countless generations is fading from from memory.
Astronomers used to think black holes feed exclusively on a hot gas and dust, but it seems they sometimes like to go out for ice cream.
It's one of the strangest experiment ever devised, and it may very well revolutionize science.
We may actually get to see a black hole!
Pluto really is crazy!
Astronomers working with the Hubble telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding 5-9% faster than expected, and this is intriguing.
Few things in life can claim to be truly breathtaking, and even fewer of those things are man-made. But this perfect rocket landing from SpaceX can definitely claim that:
One group from Lund University in Sweden says Planet 9 or Planet X, as it's sometimes called, might actually be an exoplanet, initially formed in another solar system but captured by our sun in an interstellar gravity tug of war.
Could comets have seeded life on Earth?
Swirling patterns in the ice of Mars' North Pole suggest the planet is emerging out of a long ice age that began some 370,000 years ago. The findings are extremely important for climate change, improving our understanding of both Mars' and Earth's climate.
The analysis suggests some supermassive black holes, which lie at the heart of virtually any galaxy, turn their host galaxies into "red geysers" which suppress star formation.
Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft chief, billionaire, scientist and patent creator recently published a study in which he claims NASA has made many fundamental errors in its analysis of asteroid data.
"…this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. "
At the heart of virtually every galaxy, including the Milky Way, is a supermassive blackhole that's anywhere from hundreds of thousands to billions of times more massive than the sun. How these cosmic bodies start off is still a subject of debate.
A research team discovered two geologically young craters — one 16 million, the other between 75 and 420 million, years old — in the Moon’s darkest regions.
A joint venture between US Department of Defense and Australian Defence Science and Technology Organization launched a rocket to a mind-boggling Mach 7.5. That's a speed seven and half times faster than the speed of sound or 5,710 mph (9,200 kmph).
One Japanese startup is planning one hell of a fireworks show for the official opening of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
NASA astronomers captured a beautiful image of Mars on May 12, when the planet was just 50 million miles away from Earth. Bright snow-capped polar regions and rolling clouds above the rusty landscape show that Mars is a dynamic, seasonal planet, not an inert rock barreling through space.
A faint, blue galaxy 30 million light years away from Earth could help us understand the conditions from the birth of the Universe. Nicknamed "The Little Lion", the galaxy contains the lowest level of heavy chemical elements ever observed in a system of stars - meaning its make-up is similar to what was happening directly after Big Bang.
When Hollywood makes a movie set in space, the science in the movie may or may not be based in reality.
If I asked you to guess where we have the best chances of finding life outside of Earth, you’d be hard pressed to think about Europa. But Jupiter’s frozen moon is beginning to look more and more attractive, and may even harbor an Earth-like ocean. We’ve written extensively before about the life harboring possibilities of […]
Hollywood screenwriters and directors are in business to make a lot of money. For space movies, they make trailers packed with explosions, laser beams and futuristic spacecraft. Heroes and heroines have perfect hair and dazzling smiles. Are these movies scientifically accurate? Usually not.
A team from Monash University, Australia, and Imperial College, U.K., found the oldest micrometeorites ever and by studying them could determine what the planet's atmosphere looked like 2.7 billion years ago when these objects impacted the surface.
Both civilian and military applications have become heavily reliant on digital communications, which in turn are dependent on space hardware like satellites. If only two decades ago, only the biggest companies or wealthy governments could afford to launch permanent or semi-permanent satellites. Today, satellites are smaller, better and cheaper than they ever were, which is why there are more than 1,100 active satellites orbiting the planet. However, they're as vulnerable as ever, too.
Hold my beer while I’m going to the Moon. In a move that could greatly benefit the space industry, as well as numerous companies, inventors and research labs, NASA just released 56 formerly patented agency technologies into the public domain, making their technology freely available and available for unrestricted commercial use. “By releasing this collection into […]
Despite its demotion from the planet status, Pluto continues to surprise us. As we receive more and more information from the Deep Horizons mission, we’re understanding more and more what a complex system Pluto really is – just like a planet. The latest example comes in the form of an unexpected interaction with the solar […]
NASA just released the first ever topographic model of Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun.
Ask most Americans which three astronauts they remember most, and the answers you’ll likely get are Neil Armstrong, John Glenn and Jim Lovell. Armstrong, of course, was the first person to walk on the moon in July of 1969. Glenn is the first American to orbit the earth in February of 1962. And Jim Lovell […]
Here's something you'd never expect to happen in a place with average temperatures of -67 degrees Fahrenheit -- Mars' flowing water is boiling!
It's a paradigm shift.
A rocky body that's neither exactly a comet nor an asteroid, may hold some interesting clues about how the planets in the solar system formed, including Earth. The tailless so-called Manx comet, named so after a breed of cats without tails, originates from the Oort cloud -- a shell of icy objects that exist in the outermost reaches of the solar system. Although it's more than a trillion miles away, this Manx comet is likely made of the same stuff that eventually coalesced to form Venus, Mars or even Earth.
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British astronaut Tim Peake ran the London Marathon on a treadmill aboard the International Space Station.
NASA released a new set of images of Ceres - and they're a sight to behold.f
