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Mysterious dimmings from a faraway star spur speculation about "alien megastructures," some rivers on ancient Mars were dozens of miles long and Pluto's many mysteries continue to intrigue researchers. Here are Space.com...

My friend Robert Farquhar left this life today. He orbited the sun 83 times. He was big on orbits and designed some of the most esoteric and complex spacecraft trajectories ever attempted which were executed with stunnin...

The forces unleashed by such an impact are hard to comprehend, but a team of Stanford scientists has recreated the conditions experienced during the first billionths of a second as the meteor struck.

A lingering question surrounds the original source of the water that carried sediment into the Gale Crater Curiosity landing site (above). For flowing water to have existed on the surface, Mars must have had a thicker at...

According to observations from the Tihany Magnetic Observatory in Hungary, the indices used by scientists to assess the Sun's geomagnetic perturbations to the Earth are unable to detect some of these events, which could ...

It's kinda weird to think that out in space there are gigantic clouds of gas and dust, hundreds of trillions of kilometers across, but as tenuous as laboratory vacuums. But it's also kinda awe-inspiring. And pretty. And ...