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A "beautiful dust devil" was just discovered today, April 1, on the Red Planet by NASA's long lived Opportunity rover as she is simultaneously exploring water altered rock outcrops at the steepest slopes ever targeted du...

Blue Origin successfully flew its New Shepard suborbital vehicle for the third time in four and a half months April 2 as the company moves closer to commercial operations of the vehicle. SpaceNews.com

Few nighttime sights offer more drama than the full Moon rising over the horizon. Now imagine that instead of the Moon, a gas giant planet spanning three times more sky loomed over the molten landscape of a lava world. T...

Detecting alien worlds presents a significant challenge since they are small, faint, and close to their stars. The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial velocity (looking for wobbling stars) and ...

For the first time this past fall, 2015, astronomers were able to clearly see hidden monsters that are predicted to be there, but have previously been elusive because of their 'buried' state. An international team of sci...

Last Thursday, Elon Musk unveiled the new Tesla Model 3 electric car. I've been waiting for this announcement for some time; I love the idea of an all-electric vehicle, but I'm not quite ready to shell out 100 grand for ...

Today (April 2), the private spaceflight company Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket into suborbital space and then successfully landed the booster back on Earth for the third time in less than five months.

Planet Nine, the massive orb proposed to explain the clustered orbits of a half dozen remote Kuiper Belt asteroids, may have a darker side. Periodic mass extinctions on Earth, as indicated in the global fossil record, co...