Jupiter's moon Europa is one of the most promising places for life in the solar system.... READ ON
New York's 'Sun' newspaper confirmed there was life on the lunar surface, including bat-people. And readers believed it.... READ ON
Proxima b might be able to support life.... READ ON
Get ready for alien beauty overload.... READ ON
Rachel Ignotofsky’s illustrations and stories aim to turn pioneering women like Katherine Johnson and Mary Anning into household names.... READ ON
Scientists at Mission Centaur are looking for an astronomical holy grail: an inhabitable Earth-like planet. ... READ ON
This awe-inspiring timelapse was taken at Dry Tortugas National Park in Florida, one of the darkest spots on the U.S. East Coast.... READ ON
Japan's space agency, JAXA, lost contact with Hitomi in late March. ... READ ON
Shooting stars are really meteors—little chunks of rock and dust moving through space. ... READ ON
From an engineering standpoint, Juno's July 4 arrival at Jupiter is fitting, as the endeavor is a sort of declaration of independence from the required use of nuclear power in missions to outer planets.... READ ON
After a five-year journey, Juno will be ensnared by Jupiter's gravity and orbit the planet 33 times, then plunge beneath the clouds and disintegrate.... READ ON
Astronomers say rapid star birth is using up more cosmic debris than ever before.... READ ON
“One of the major threats to intelligent life in our universe," said Stephen Hawking, "is a high probability of an asteroid colliding with inhabitable planets.” ... READ ON
The moon was lovely last night, wasn't it? ... READ ON
6. That "shoulders of giants" thing was actually an insult.... READ ON
Astrochemists’ discovery of a chiral, or "handed," molecule in a star-forming cloud that may shed light on Nature’s mysterious lean to the left.... READ ON
Michael Jackson wanted to do a Harry Potter musical. J.K. Rowling said no.
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