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This bundle of bright stars and dark dust is a dwarf spiral galaxy known as NGC 4605, located around 16 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear)....

If all goes according to plan, a balloon the size of a football field will loft NASA's BETTII mission above 99.5 percent of Earth's atmosphere next year to study star formation....

It seems like the race for human colonization outside Earth is now on, with Russia stepping ahead in establishing the first human colony on the Moon by 2030.

Relativity is a funny thing. And here I don't mean Einstein's relativity, which is both funny and bizarre. No, what I'm talking about is Galilean relativity, where two objects are moving relative to one another, and you ...

During a lunch at Los Alamos in 1950, physicist Enrico Fermi asked his colleagues working on the Manhattan Project, "Don't you ever wonder where everybody is?" Fermi argued that given the large number of stars and planet...