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As researchers learn more about dark matter's complexities, it seems possible that our galaxy lives on top of a shadow galaxy without us even knowing it.

The New Horizons spacecraft is still about 880 million kilometers (550 million miles) from Pluto, but one July 1 and 3, 2013, the spacecraft's LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) was able to detect not only Pluto, b...

Even though it comprises over 99% of the mass of the Solar System (with Jupiter taking up most of the rest) our Sun is, in terms of the entire Milky Way, a fairly average star. There's lots of less massive stars than the...

A burst of energetic particles from the Sun called a coronal mass ejection peppered Earth's magnetic field yesterday afternoon sparking a modest but beautiful all-night display of the aurora borealis. Another light show ...

Look closely at this beautiful serene view taken by Miguel Claro from Portugal. Not only is it a stunning view of the skies over Lake Alqueva in the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve in Portugal, but there are also several scient...

Reblogged from Zooniverse: A small team of scientists and developers from across the Zooniverse are gathered at Adler Planetarium in Chicago this week to pitch and work on ideas for advanced tools for some of your favori...

NASA's next Mars rover set for liftoff in 2020 should focus on three primary objectives; seeking signs of past life, collecting a cache of carefully chosen samples for eventual return to Earth and developing technologies...

Those of us with long tresses have wondered, how do you wash that floating mass of hair in space? Astronaut and Expedition 36 crewmember Karen Nyberg provides a how-to video direct from the International Space Station. O...

NASA managers have announced a bold new plan to significantly alter and upgrade the goals and complexity of the 1st mission of the integrated Orion/Space Launch System (SLS) human exploration architecture - planned for b...