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Well, you shouldn't be. Yes, you're just one person out of over 7 billion on Earth. Yes, your lifetime -- even if you live to be well over 100 -- is just a fraction of a flicker of a blink of a tardigrade's eye (do tardi...

An early morning surprise On February 15th, 2013, the Russian city Chelyabinsk got the surprise of a lifetime when an asteroid hurtled down through the atmosphere, disintegrating into thousands of pieces that rained down...

As soon as you see these images, you'll probably guess who the photographer is ... yes, Thierry Legault. He had less than half a second to capture these incredible shots of the Shenzhou-10 module docked to Tiangong-1 Chi...

On December 4th 2012, it was announced that NASA intends to launch another rover to Mars in 2020. The successful landing and science conducted by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover has renewed the confiden...

Following an intense 18 month study to determine if NASA's New Horizons spacecraft faced potentially destructive impact hazards during its planned 2015 flyby of the Pluto binary planet system, the mission team has decide...