Some of the most stunningly powerful objects in the sky aren’t necessarily the prettiest to look at.* But their secrets can allow humanity to glimpse...
Who has an even bigger grin than ten years ago? This goofy-looking crater on Mars. These two images were taken by the HiRISE camera (High Resolution...
What’s better than two gigantic galaxies swirling into one another until they collide?* How about three galaxies swirling into one another until they...
Likely the most well-known result of the Earth’s magnetic field are the Aurora Borealis and Australis (Northern and Southern Lights).* When chargers...
Staying afloat in space can be deceptively hard.  Just ask the characters from Gravity, or any number of the hundreds of small satellites that fall...
In a new study, a pair of Harvard astrophysicists did the math on whether or not BLC1 is an extraterrestrial signal - and the results are not good!
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