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Scientists Just Discovered the Longest Stellar Eclipse in the Known Universe

Scientists Just Discovered the Longest Stellar Eclipse in the Known Universe

By Sarah Marquart

First Analysis of a Super-Earth’s Atmosphere Reveals Scorching Wasteland

First Analysis of a Super-Earth’s Atmosphere Reveals Scorching Wasteland

By Jelor Gallego

Virgin Galactic Will Soon Be Launching Tourists into Space with this Plane

Virgin Galactic Will Soon Be Launching Tourists into Space with this Plane

Scientists Find Largest Rocky Planet Ever Discovered, Half as Big as Neptune

Scientists Find Largest Rocky Planet Ever Discovered, Half as Big as Neptune

By Sarah Marquart

Luxembourg Wants To Lead The Race to Mine Asteroids

Luxembourg Wants To Lead The Race to Mine Asteroids

By Jelor Gallego

Astronomers Reel in a Haul of Five New “Hot Jupiters”

Astronomers Reel in a Haul of Five New “Hot Jupiters”

By Todd Jaquith

Double Sun Worlds: Stunning Image Reveals Young Planet in Binary System

Double Sun Worlds: Stunning Image Reveals Young Planet in Binary System

By Miguel Santos

The Futuristic Space Tourism Projects That Are Actually Underway Today

By Annabs Sanchez

Mapping Pluto’s Heart: New Image Gives You an Unparalleled Look at This Icy World

Mapping Pluto’s Heart: New Image Gives You an Unparalleled Look at This Icy World

By June Javelosa

Scientists Find That Many Planets Are Earth-Like, at Least on the Inside

Scientists Find That Many Planets Are Earth-Like, at Least on the Inside

By June Javelosa

Turns out, Earth Isn’t as Habitable as We Think

Turns out, Earth Isn’t as Habitable as We Think

By June Javelosa

Russian Cosmonauts Go For a Walk in Space

Russian Cosmonauts Go For a Walk in Space

Astronomers Discover Nearly 1000 New Galaxies Lurking Behind the Milky Way

Astronomers Discover Nearly 1000 New Galaxies Lurking Behind the Milky Way

By Todd Jaquith

The End Of An Epic: Comet Lander Philae Will Soon Be Signing Off

The End Of An Epic: Comet Lander Philae Will Soon Be Signing Off

By Jelor Gallego

Russia Enters New Space Race, Revealing Their Manned Lunar Lander

Russia Enters New Space Race, Revealing Their Manned Lunar Lander

By June Javelosa

The Mystery of Pluto’s “Floating Hills” Solved: They’re Icebergs!

The Mystery of Pluto’s “Floating Hills” Solved: They’re Icebergs!

By Todd Jaquith

Red Dwarfs: Meet the Last Stars That Will Burn in the Cosmos

Red Dwarfs: Meet the Last Stars That Will Burn in the Cosmos

Huge Gas Cloud Flying Toward Our Galaxy Could Create Two Million Stars

Huge Gas Cloud Flying Toward Our Galaxy Could Create Two Million Stars

By Sarah Marquart

Six New Millisecond Pulsars Discovered

Six New Millisecond Pulsars Discovered

By Todd Jaquith

Astronomers Claim To Have Found Enormous Invisible Structures Hiding In The Milky Way

Astronomers Claim To Have Found Enormous Invisible Structures Hiding In The Milky Way

By June Javelosa

Arizona Space Balloon Set to Fly You “To the Edge of Space”

Arizona Space Balloon Set to Fly You “To the Edge of Space”

By June Javelosa

Astronomers Report Most Powerful Supernova Ever Seen, Shines Brighter Than Our Entire Galaxy

Astronomers Report Most Powerful Supernova Ever Seen, Shines Brighter Than Our Entire Galaxy

By Darwin Batinga

New Study Says Space Elevators Will Be Feasible by 2030

New Study Says Space Elevators Will Be Feasible by 2030

By June Javelosa

BREAKING: Rosetta Orbiter Found Water Ice on the Surface of Comet 67P

BREAKING: Rosetta Orbiter Found Water Ice on the Surface of Comet 67P

By Darwin Batinga

Harvard Scientists Assert That Interstellar Civilizations Could Thrive in Globular Clusters

Harvard Scientists Assert That Interstellar Civilizations Could Thrive in Globular Clusters

Scientists Find Ancient Gas Cloud That May Be Relic from the First Stars in Our Universe

Scientists Find Ancient Gas Cloud That May Be Relic from the First Stars in Our Universe

By Sarah Marquart

A New Method Helps Us Better Measure Alien Worlds, and Possibly Locate Alien Life

A New Method Helps Us Better Measure Alien Worlds, and Possibly Locate Alien Life

By June Javelosa

Largest Galaxy Tail Ever is Longer Than the Length of the Milky Way

Largest Galaxy Tail Ever is Longer Than the Length of the Milky Way

By Sarah Marquart

Take a 3D Ride Through the Veil Nebula

Take a 3D Ride Through the Veil Nebula

By Sarah Marquart

New Force Field Technology Hopes to Protect Astronauts on Future Deep Space Missions

New Force Field Technology Hopes to Protect Astronauts on Future Deep Space Missions

By June Javelosa

Putin Just Dissolved Roscosmos, Russia’s Space Agency

Putin Just Dissolved Roscosmos, Russia’s Space Agency

By Jolene Creighton

Europe Planning to Establish Lunar Base by 2030

Europe Planning to Establish Lunar Base by 2030

By Jolene Creighton

New Information Regarding Why Our Universe Didn’t Collapse

New Information Regarding Why Our Universe Didn’t Collapse

By June Javelosa

Armageddon: How Large Must an Asteroid be to Exterminate All Life on Earth?

Armageddon: How Large Must an Asteroid be to Exterminate All Life on Earth?

How Come Everything in the Universe is Spinning?

How Come Everything in the Universe is Spinning?

By Miguel Santos

Meet Io: The Most Volcanically Active World in the Solar System

Meet Io: The Most Volcanically Active World in the Solar System

By Miguel Santos

An Asteroid is Zooming Past Earth This Christmas Eve

An Asteroid is Zooming Past Earth This Christmas Eve

By Miguel Santos

See the Earthrise Like You’ve Never Seen it Before

See the Earthrise Like You’ve Never Seen it Before

By Jolene Creighton

Hubble Captures Image of First-Ever Predicted Exploding Star

Hubble Captures Image of First-Ever Predicted Exploding Star

By Jolene Creighton

Science Explained: What Causes the Bright Spots on Ceres?

Science Explained: What Causes the Bright Spots on Ceres?

Meet the Asteroid That’s Made of $5 Trillion Worth of Platinum

Meet the Asteroid That’s Made of $5 Trillion Worth of Platinum

By June Javelosa

In Search of a Super-Earth: Astronomers Find Unidentified Object at the Edge of Our Solar System

In Search of a Super-Earth: Astronomers Find Unidentified Object at the Edge of Our Solar System

Star Cruisers: Gaze at the Heavens While Out at Sea

Star Cruisers: Gaze at the Heavens While Out at Sea

The Dream Chaser Space Plane Will Begin Flight Tests in 2016

The Dream Chaser Space Plane Will Begin Flight Tests in 2016

By June Javelosa

Search for Advanced Civilizations Finds No Obvious Signs in 100,000 Galaxies

Search for Advanced Civilizations Finds No Obvious Signs in 100,000 Galaxies

By Mike Anderson

Historic Asteroid Property Rights Bill Signed Into Law

Historic Asteroid Property Rights Bill Signed Into Law

By Miguel Santos

Scientists Find Some of The “Missing Matter” in Our Universe

Scientists Find Some of The “Missing Matter” in Our Universe

Do Advanced Alien Civilizations Exist? Astrobiologists Provide a New Take on Drake’s Equation

Do Advanced Alien Civilizations Exist? Astrobiologists Provide a New Take on Drake’s Equation

By Joseph Libunao

Mysterious Radio Flashes in Deep Space: Scientists Uncover New Cosmic Clue

Mysterious Radio Flashes in Deep Space: Scientists Uncover New Cosmic Clue

By June Javelosa

Reusable Rocket Makes Historic Vertical Landing (w/ Video)

Reusable Rocket Makes Historic Vertical Landing (w/ Video)

By Miguel Santos

Researchers Discover Ultra-thin Diamond Nanothreads That Could Support Space Elevator

Researchers Discover Ultra-thin Diamond Nanothreads That Could Support Space Elevator

By Joseph Libunao

New Generation Gamma-Ray Spectroscope Can Detect Hidden Minerals in Asteroids

New Generation Gamma-Ray Spectroscope Can Detect Hidden Minerals in Asteroids

Hubble Shows That Early Galaxies Were Better at Making Stars

Hubble Shows That Early Galaxies Were Better at Making Stars

Recently Found “Most Earth-Like Alien Planet” May Be Uninhabitable Due to Superflares

Recently Found “Most Earth-Like Alien Planet” May Be Uninhabitable Due to Superflares

Most Distant Object in the Solar System Discovered

Most Distant Object in the Solar System Discovered

By Joseph Libunao

There’s a New Way to Define Planets, but Pluto Still Doesn’t Make the Cut

There’s a New Way to Define Planets, but Pluto Still Doesn’t Make the Cut

By Miguel Santos

Photos of Enceladus From the Cassini Probe

Photos of Enceladus From the Cassini Probe

By Miguel Santos

Two Satellites Will Join Kepler in the Search for New Worlds

Two Satellites Will Join Kepler in the Search for New Worlds

By Miguel Santos

One of the Largest Cosmological Simulations Ever Shows the Evolution of the Universe

One of the Largest Cosmological Simulations Ever Shows the Evolution of the Universe

By Miguel Santos

Jupiter May Have Ejected Another Planet From Our Solar System Long Ago

Jupiter May Have Ejected Another Planet From Our Solar System Long Ago

By Miguel Santos

Oxygen Found on Comet 67P

Oxygen Found on Comet 67P

By Joseph Libunao

Shocking News: Irregular Brightness of Star 1,400 Light Years May Not Be An Alien Megastructure After All

Shocking News: Irregular Brightness of Star 1,400 Light Years May Not Be An Alien Megastructure After All

By Joseph Libunao

Most Other Earth-Like Planets Haven’t Been Born Yet

Most Other Earth-Like Planets Haven’t Been Born Yet

By Miguel Santos

Astronomers Discover Two Giant Stars in the Midst of Colliding

Astronomers Discover Two Giant Stars in the Midst of Colliding

By Miguel Santos