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The gas giant planet took shape within 4 million years of our solar system's formation --

New asteroid 2017 BQ6 was all elbows when it flew by Earth just a few days ago. Images reveal it as one of the most "angular" near-Earth asteroids known. The post Meet Asteroid 2017 BQ6 — A Giant, Spinning Brick appear...

NASA's scientists are grappling with a profound question - if we were ever to find alien life in the universe, how would we know? Whatever's out there might be really strange, unrecognizable. When a robotic probe finally...

Shane Kimbrough @astro_kimbrough Striking beauty of the Bahamas!...

According to Alphonse Swinehart via Vimeo "In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow....

With the Arctic's annual summer ice cover hovering at record lows; and a new record low in global sea ice coverage recorded earlier this year; and a large crack threatening the collapse of a large ice shelf in Antarctica...

"Now we're seeing in a planetary system outside our solar system that there are minor planets where water, nitrogen and carbon are present in abundance, as in our solar system's Kuiper belt," said Siyi Xu, a postdoctoral...