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Not Long For This World: Astronomers Find Distant Planet Locked in a Death Spiral

Not Long For This World: Astronomers Find Distant Planet Locked in a Death Spiral

By Jelor Gallego

Engineers Created Tiny, Hovering Reusable Rockets

Engineers Created Tiny, Hovering Reusable Rockets

By Todd Jaquith

Luxembourg Establishes €220 Million Fund for Space Mining

Luxembourg Establishes €220 Million Fund for Space Mining

By Jelor Gallego

Astronomers Detect Hydrogen Signal More Than Five Billion Light-Years Away

Astronomers Detect Hydrogen Signal More Than Five Billion Light-Years Away

By Jelor Gallego

An Alien in Our Solar System: Planet 9 Might Have Once Belonged to Another Star

An Alien in Our Solar System: Planet 9 Might Have Once Belonged to Another Star

By Todd Jaquith

Earth Will One Day Die, But We Could Survive By Moving Here

Earth Will One Day Die, But We Could Survive By Moving Here

By Jelor Gallego

Giant Solar Storms May Have Fueled the Evolution of Life on Earth

Giant Solar Storms May Have Fueled the Evolution of Life on Earth

By Todd Jaquith

India Successfully Launches Tiny Reusable Space Shuttle

India Successfully Launches Tiny Reusable Space Shuttle

By Todd Jaquith

What’s the Biggest Star in the Universe? Depends on Your Definition of “Big”

What’s the Biggest Star in the Universe? Depends on Your Definition of “Big”

By Todd Jaquith

Alien Oceanography: Cassini Reveals a Primordial Ocean of Organics on Titan

Alien Oceanography: Cassini Reveals a Primordial Ocean of Organics on Titan

By Todd Jaquith

Today’s Stars May Evolve Differently Than Stars in the Early Universe

Today’s Stars May Evolve Differently Than Stars in the Early Universe

By Jelor Gallego

The Forgotten Dwarf: Meet the Largest Unnamed Object in Our Solar System

The Forgotten Dwarf: Meet the Largest Unnamed Object in Our Solar System

By Todd Jaquith

Rumors of ‘Alien Megastructures’ Around Tabby’s Star May Be Nothing But Flawed Data

Rumors of ‘Alien Megastructures’ Around Tabby’s Star May Be Nothing But Flawed Data

By Cecille De Jesus

Luxembourg Set to Launch Water-Powered Asteroid Mining Tech

Luxembourg Set to Launch Water-Powered Asteroid Mining Tech

By Jelor Gallego

Watch GoPro Take an Out-of-this-World Ride on a Rocket

Watch GoPro Take an Out-of-this-World Ride on a Rocket

By Sarah Marquart

Pluto Serves up Another Surprise—An Enormous Earth-Like Tail

Pluto Serves up Another Surprise—An Enormous Earth-Like Tail

By Todd Jaquith

Newly Discovered Planets May Host Infrared Based Life

Newly Discovered Planets May Host Infrared Based Life

By Sarah Marquart

Halley’s Comet Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: Here’s How to Watch

Halley’s Comet Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: Here’s How to Watch

By The Conversation

Rare Galaxy Hiding in the Night Sky Captured by Hubble

Rare Galaxy Hiding in the Night Sky Captured by Hubble

By June Javelosa

Nearby Supernova Packed the Same Punch as 100 Million Suns

Nearby Supernova Packed the Same Punch as 100 Million Suns

By Sarah Marquart

Computer Code Sheds New Light on the Early Universe

Computer Code Sheds New Light on the Early Universe

By Jelor Gallego

Vector Space Systems: The Space Taxi Service Of Tomorrow

Vector Space Systems: The Space Taxi Service Of Tomorrow

Scientists Find Evidence of a Recent Nearby Supernova, And Its Remnants Are Hitting Earth

Scientists Find Evidence of a Recent Nearby Supernova, And Its Remnants Are Hitting Earth

By Todd Jaquith

Nearby Star System May Host an Earth-Like Planet

Nearby Star System May Host an Earth-Like Planet

By Jelor Gallego

Our Solar System May Have Had Super-Earths, But the Sun Ate Them

Our Solar System May Have Had Super-Earths, But the Sun Ate Them

By Cecille De Jesus

We’re Going to Visit the Farthest Reaches of Our Solar System

We’re Going to Visit the Farthest Reaches of Our Solar System

By Sarah Marquart

The Bottle-Sized Satellites Leading a Quiet Revolution in Space

The Bottle-Sized Satellites Leading a Quiet Revolution in Space

By World Economic Forum

Astronomers Just Discovered a New Galaxy Orbiting the Milky Way

Astronomers Just Discovered a New Galaxy Orbiting the Milky Way

By Jelor Gallego

Scientists Discover Quasar That Emits Jets Reaching 18 Trillion Degrees

Scientists Discover Quasar That Emits Jets Reaching 18 Trillion Degrees

By Sarah Marquart

Astronomers Have Discovered a Super-Fast Star System That Seems to Break Current Physics Models

Astronomers Have Discovered a Super-Fast Star System That Seems to Break Current Physics Models

By Science Alert

Vacations in Space? Bigelow Aerospace and ULA Announce First Commercial Space Station

Vacations in Space? Bigelow Aerospace and ULA Announce First Commercial Space Station

By Todd Jaquith

100 Years Ago An Alien Planet Was Discovered…And We Never Noticed

100 Years Ago An Alien Planet Was Discovered…And We Never Noticed

By Sarah Marquart

An Infant, Rogue Planet Has Been Found Lurking in Our Solar Neighborhood

An Infant, Rogue Planet Has Been Found Lurking in Our Solar Neighborhood

By Todd Jaquith

By 2020, We May Have a Fully Inflatable Space Station

By 2020, We May Have a Fully Inflatable Space Station

By Miguel Santos

A Real “Death Star”—White Dwarf Caught Destroying a Tiny Planet

A Real “Death Star”—White Dwarf Caught Destroying a Tiny Planet

By Todd Jaquith

Scientists Create Building Blocks of Life in Lab Comet

Scientists Create Building Blocks of Life in Lab Comet

By Jelor Gallego

Scientists Uncover a Jupiter-Sized Planet in a Triple-Star System

Scientists Uncover a Jupiter-Sized Planet in a Triple-Star System

By Sarah Marquart

Astronomers Find the Purest Oxygen Atmosphere Ever Discovered—On a White Dwarf

Astronomers Find the Purest Oxygen Atmosphere Ever Discovered—On a White Dwarf

By Jelor Gallego

Pulsar Finally Found in the Andromeda Galaxy

Pulsar Finally Found in the Andromeda Galaxy

By Todd Jaquith

This Cloaking Device Could Hide Us From Alien Life

This Cloaking Device Could Hide Us From Alien Life

By Sarah Marquart

This New Instrument Will Be Able to Locate Alien Worlds from the Ground

This New Instrument Will Be Able to Locate Alien Worlds from the Ground

By Sarah Marquart

An Object Just Collided With Jupiter and Astronomers Caught it on Video

An Object Just Collided With Jupiter and Astronomers Caught it on Video

By Sarah Marquart

The Hotel of the Future Might be an Inflatable Habitat…in Space

The Hotel of the Future Might be an Inflatable Habitat…in Space

By Jelor Gallego

The Case for Planet Nine Just Got a Whole Lot Stronger

The Case for Planet Nine Just Got a Whole Lot Stronger

By Todd Jaquith

Pluto May Once Have Had Rivers of Liquid Nitrogen

Pluto May Once Have Had Rivers of Liquid Nitrogen

By Todd Jaquith

Cassini Unveils Enormous Ice Mountains on Titan’s Surface

Cassini Unveils Enormous Ice Mountains on Titan’s Surface

By Jelor Gallego

Scientists Find Microbe Grows 60% Better in Space Than on Earth

Scientists Find Microbe Grows 60% Better in Space Than on Earth

By Todd Jaquith

CME: The Storm of the Century

CME: The Storm of the Century

By Jolene Creighton

These Images Show What The Universe Really Looks Like

These Images Show What The Universe Really Looks Like

By Annabs Sanchez

New Research Shows How Stars Turn to Gold

New Research Shows How Stars Turn to Gold

By Todd Jaquith

We Just Discovered a New Type of Colossal Galaxy

We Just Discovered a New Type of Colossal Galaxy

By Miguel Santos

The Largest Known Spiral Galaxies

The Largest Known Spiral Galaxies

By Jolene Creighton

A Study of Ceres’ Bright Spots Shows That They Are Changing

A Study of Ceres’ Bright Spots Shows That They Are Changing

Scientists Find Mysterious, Repeating Radio Bursts Emanating From Space

Scientists Find Mysterious, Repeating Radio Bursts Emanating From Space

By Annabs Sanchez

More Than 30 Billion Light-Years Away, Hubble Captures the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Found

More Than 30 Billion Light-Years Away, Hubble Captures the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Found

By Jelor Gallego

Why We May Owe Our Existence to Cosmic Expansion

Why We May Owe Our Existence to Cosmic Expansion

By Todd Jaquith

We’ve Successfully Grown Crops in ‘Martian’ Soil

We’ve Successfully Grown Crops in ‘Martian’ Soil

By Sarah Marquart

What Would Happen if the Sun Went Supernova?

What Would Happen if the Sun Went Supernova?

By Jolene Creighton

This Satellite Will Soon be “The Brightest Star in the Night Sky”

This Satellite Will Soon be “The Brightest Star in the Night Sky”

By Sarah Marquart

Total Solar Eclipse Heading Our Way Next Week, Here’s How to Watch

Total Solar Eclipse Heading Our Way Next Week, Here’s How to Watch

By Sarah Marquart

Science Explained: How Does the Milky Way Really Look?

Science Explained: How Does the Milky Way Really Look?

By Miguel Santos

Is Blowing up an Asteroid With a Bomb Really a Good Idea?

Is Blowing up an Asteroid With a Bomb Really a Good Idea?

By Amanda Buchanan

New Research Shows 700 Quintillion Planets Populate Our Universe, and Earth Could Be Unique

New Research Shows 700 Quintillion Planets Populate Our Universe, and Earth Could Be Unique

By Sarah Marquart

Radio Signals From Space Just Revealed the Missing Matter in the Universe

Radio Signals From Space Just Revealed the Missing Matter in the Universe

By Miguel Santos