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Breaking with the usual stereotype for my kind (geeks, nerds, and dorks), I actually like watching football. For some reason, my wife and daughter became Broncos fans this past season (long before the first game started)...

Royal Astronomical Society: On 5 July 2012, a plume of Antarctic air descended over the European Southern Observatory's Paranal site in Chile. The home of the Very Large Telescope, Paranal is 2635 m above sea level and i...

Is Stephen Hawking messing with our heads? The famed astrophysicist has shaken up the world of popular science with his newest study about the basic nature of black holes, but is his theory truly as radical as it sounds ...

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NFL star Tim Tebow is taking the Super Bowl into space today by tossing the pigskin on the moon in a T-mobile ad to air during the big game. See the video here.

As you watch football today, you might be interested the know tha the International Space Station's length and width is about the size of a football field....

Scientists are combing the galaxy looking for stars that could be harboring planet-forming disks. They need your help to explain this puzzling part of stellar evolution....

NASA researchers plan to create the coldest spot in the known Universe--inside the International Space Station. The device, known as the Cold Atom Lab, could discover new forms of matter and novel quantum phenomena....

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." In February, Orion is your guide to a number of fascinating objects....

Today is the Super Bowl, and like the past two years I'll be live tweeting science facts related to the game. I'll have a post up when the first quarter ends that compiles them, and I'll update it at the end of every qua...

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The majority of Dawn's time in the Ceres approach phase will be devoted to continuing ion-powered flight. Let's take another look at how this remarkable technology is used to deliver the adventurer to the desired orbit a...