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Could we actually be living in the Matrix? You might be surprised.

Ted Southern and Nikolay Moiseev are the cutting-edge design duo behind Final Frontier Design, a small Brooklyn-based company that creates space suits for NASA and commercial space travel and is developing space-age glov...

With just 12 days before Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko reaches perihelion, we get a look at recent images and results released by the European Space Agency from the Philae lander along with spectacular 3D photos from R...

The Rosetta orbiter is continuing its science until the end of the extended Rosetta mission in September 2016. The lander's future is less certain. This film covers some of what we've learnt from Philae about comet 67P/C...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Saturday placed a major archaeological site in Crimea, which he has hailed as the country's most sacred spiritual symbol, under federal control following turmoil over the appointment ...

The second full moon of July brought a stunning Blue Moon to skywatchers around the world on July 31, wowing them with a spectacular lunar sight. See their photos and reactions here.

On July 18, 2015, high-power sport rockets carried payloads thousands of feet above the plains of Pueblo, Colorado, at the United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Student Rocket Launch. The e...

Geoff Marcy remembers the hair standing up on the back of his neck. Paul Butler remembers being dead tired. The two men had just made history: the first confirmation of a planet orbiting another star. The groundbreaking ...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has helped astronomers confirm the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside our solar system....

My apologies, everyone: After we put up this week's episode of Crash Course Astronomy (about exoplanets), we found an error in one of the animations that got past us. In some cases where a mistake is found we can simply ...

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