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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

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