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Discovered "by accident" by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in 2010, dark lightning is a surprisingly powerful -- yet invisible -- by-product of thunderstorms in Earth's atmosphere. Like regular lightning, dark li...

Take a close look at the blurry image above. See that gap in the cloud? That could be a planet being born some 176 light-years away from Earth. It's a small planet, only 6 to 28 times Earth's mass. That's not even the be...

So, you've just endured a harrowing experience where your orbiting spacecraft has gone wildly out of control. You somehow -- while undergoing the incredible, vertigo-inducing G-forces of your spinning spacecraft -- figur...

Put another checkmark beside the "cold dark matter" theory. New observations by Japan's Subaru Telescope are helping astronomers get a grip on the density of dark matter, this mysterious substance that pervades the unive...

Chris Lewicki is the President and Chief Engineer for one of the most pioneering and audacious companies in the world today. Planetary Resources was founded in 2008 by two leading space advocates, Peter Diamandis, Chairm...