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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

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