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It's unlikely that there's anything on the planet that is worth the cost of shipping it back
Two massive clouds of dust in orbit around the Earth have been discussed for years and finally proven to exist.
Ryan O'Neal's latest addition to his Astronomy series is a tribute to the dying spacecraft.
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Our friendly neighborhood gas giant serves as a cosmic catcher's mitt.
Scientists explore the biggest questions of cosmology.
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The concept was likened to a porch light in our little neighborhood of the galaxy.
We may not find Klingons, but what we do find will blow our terrestrial minds.
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It's an asteroid, it's a comet, it's actually a spacecraft?
A perspective from Brother Guy Consolmagno, astronomer and theologian.
It's exotic, incredibly cold stuff.
Follow along as the InSight spacecraft crosses millions of miles to the red planet.
A young star and a belt of gasses give the game away.
Around Halloween in 2015, astronomers discovered 'The Goblin'. Now, it's leading us to what some call Planet X.
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Future or extraterrestrial civilizations could create megastructures the size of a solar system.
A mind-bending paradox questions the nature of reality.
By 2022, there may be as many as three artificial moons floating above the city of Chengdu.
NASA research finds a new direction in searching for signs of life in the Universe.
Climate change stands to take the one thing away from us that might make it easier to deal with, cheap beer.
Hawking, who died in March, answers questions like "Is there a God?" and "Is time travel possible?" in his final book, which is available today.
The Ocean Cleanup's System 001 is being deployed at Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
This meteorite is the oldest known volcanic rock in the solar system, dated at 4,565,000,000 years old.
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But they are only taking the CO2 equivalent of 32 cars off the road every year.
This is doubly worrisome on the heels of the recent UN climate change report, which gave humanity an urgent deadline to cut carbon emissions: just 12 years.
New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used survey data from 2 million Americans to examine the links between climate change and mental health issues.
Most of us will still be alive then. Maybe.
Early reports show that it works, as odd as the approach may seem to some fontologists.
Researchers at Japan's Tohoku University might be clearing the way for space travel.
It had a role in that old farmhouse...