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The cutest thing we've seen so far at 2016 New York Toy Fair was the newest plush toy to join the Celestial Buddies line of stuffed planets. The newcomer isn't just one plush, but two: Pluto and Charon.

"With this discovery, we humans are embarking on a marvelous new quest: the quest to explore the warped side of the universe--objects and phenomena that are made from warped spacetime. Colliding black holes and gravitati...

Astronomers have observed the formation of a planet -- or a planetary system -- around a distant binary star, known as HD 142527, captured by the new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in...

One of the problems with debunking climate change deniers is that they reuse old, long-debunked claims over and over, even long after those claims are shown to be wrong. Marshall Shepherd, the 2013 president of the Amer...

Scientists made history's first direct detection of the space-time ripples known as gravitational waves, North Korea launched a satellite and NASA announced its $19 billion budget request for fiscal year 2017. Here are S...

When talking about love and romance, people often bring up unseen and mystical connections. Such connections exist in the subatomic world as well, thanks to a bizarre and counterintuitive phenomenon called quantum entang...

(Michigan State University) While many people are marking today scrutinizing the virtues of their Valentines, Michigan State University revealed a first-of-its-kind study on the virtues and values of scientists. The stud...

Astronomers struggle to understand how planets form in binary star systems....