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Cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin believes the Big Bang wasn't a one-off event, but merely one of a series of big bangs creating an endless number of bubble universes.

The geyser jets of Enceladus don't shoot out in a continuous stream, but are more like an adjustable garden hose nozzle, says Cassini scientist Matt Hedman, author of a new paper about the workings of this fascinating ti...

Saturn is often called the most beautiful planet because of its striking rings, but its myriad moons also fascinate and inspire scientists. Now scientists know how the ringed world controls the impressive ice geysers on ...

The name of this large impact basin on Mars, Utopia Planitia, sounds idyllic. But it also strikes a warm place in the heart of any Trekkie, as in the future (at least in the Star Trek Universe) it will be the location of...

Back in 2008 when NASA was looking to return to the Moon with the Constellation Program, the NASA Lunar Science Institute was established to bridge the science and exploration communities and promote lunar research. Now ...

It always looked so easy in the Star Trek episodes. "Two to beam up," Captain James T. Kirk would say from the planet's surface. A few seconds later, the officers would materialize on the Enterprise -- often missing a fe...

The microgravity environment of the ISS poses many challenges to the human body -- some more expected than others -- but one that many people might not know about is the "molting" of dry skin, notably from the bottom of ...

MAVEN is NASA's next mission to Mars and in less than three days time the spacecraft ships out on a cross country trek for the first step on the long sojourn to Mars. But before all that, technicians took MAVEN for a fin...