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A wormhole is a theoretical passage through space-time that could create shortcuts for long journeys across the universe.

A new book, Weird Life: The Search for Life That is Very, Very Different from Our Own, looks at the bizarre life we know about, as well as the potentially countless undiscovered forms of very weird life that we can't eve...

Think about Dr. Seuss' classic book If I Ran The Zoo. Young Gerald McGrew has an active imagination creating heretofore unheard of creatures to make his zoo the most astounding by far. All of Gerald's inventions are quit...

Comets always seem to bring 'em out of the wood work. There's a scene from the 1998 movie Deep Impact where the president, played by Morgan Freeman, reveals a terrible truth... the U.S. government has known for over a ye...

Checking out the above pictures of a Saturn hurricane, one can't help but wonder: how close was the Cassini spacecraft to spiralling down into gassy nothingness? (...)Read the rest of Saturn Storm's 'Suck Zone' Shown In ...

Canadian astronaut and Expedition 35 commander Chris Hadfield just shared this photo on Twitter, showing a portion of one of the solar arrays on the ISS... with a small but very visible hole made by a passing meteoroid i...

Sadly - though as expected - the most powerful far-infrared orbital telescope put in orbit has ended mission. The Herschel space observatory has now run out of liquid helium coolant, ending more than three years of pione...

Have you ever dreamed of camping out under the dark skies of Death Valley? Dream no more: you can enjoy this virtual experience thanks to Gavin Heffernan and his Sunchaser Pictures crew. This magnificent new timelapse vi...

It's quite a long way from Mars, but I can't help but be reminded of the Red Planet's ice-covered north pole when looking at this photo taken by Michael Studinger earlier this month, during a recent IceBridge survey flig...

If you honed your observing chops on Comet PANSTARRS this spring, consider dropping in on Comet Lemmon, now returning to the dawn sky. Southern hemisphere observers saw this comet at its brightest in March when it briefl...