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Chalk another one up for Citizen Science. Earlier this month, researchers announced the discovery of 24 new pulsars. To date, thousands of pulsars have been discovered, but what's truly fascinating about this month's dis...

Space tourist Dennis Tito's daring proposal to send a married couple on a 501-day space flight around the planet Mars and back.

Millionaire space tourist Dennis Tito announced his plans for funding a commercial mission to Mars, and the mission will send two professional crew members - one man and one woman who will likely be a married couple - fl...

Some 2,500 years ago, a Greek astronomer named Aristarchus certainly made some very correct assumptions when he postulated the Sun to be at the center of our known Universe and that the Earth revolved around it. Through ...

Checking out the spin rate on a supermassive black hole is a great way for astronomers to test Einstein's theory under extreme conditions - and take a close look at how intense gravity distorts the fabric of space-time. ...

"Say, do you like mystery stories? Well we have one for you. The concept: relativity." Well look at that, it's a new video from John D. Boswell -- aka melodysheep -- which goes into autotuned detail about one of the stan...

I loved my Spirograph when I was young, and obviously Eric Charles, a physicist with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope team did too. Charles has taken data from Fermi's Large Area Telescope and turned it into a mesmeri...

Take a dirty snowball in space and hurl it towards the Sun. I dare you... and then make a prediction as to how that will look. This is the problem comet scientists face when talking about how bright a comet will appear f...

I love these 'Polar Planet Effect' images, and this one is awesome. Photographer Martin Stojanovski traveled from Macedonia to Finland during an #AuroraTweetup event in early February 2013 to try and capture the aurora. ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has eaten the 1st ever samples of gray rocky powder cored from the interior of a Martian rock. The robotic arm delivered aspirin sized samples of the pulverized powder to the rover's Chemistry and ...

Comet ISON, discovered by two amateur astronomers in Russia, will arrive in Earth's neighborhood in November 2013.