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Researchers Spot a ‘Renegade’ Supermassive Black Hole
When a pair of black holes collide, they typically merge, but sometimes one of them may be kicked in the opposite direction at great speed. → Read More
NASA's 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge Awards $100K to Two Teams
By setting up competitions, NASA hopes to attract "citizen inventors" from diverse backgrounds to develop 3D-printing technologies for sp... → Read More
Cassini Begins Its Grand Finale With a Dive Between Saturn’s Rings
Before NASA's Cassini probe burns up in Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, it is diving between the planet's rings, which scientists say could yield stunning... → Read More
NASA Prepares to Crash Cassini Probe Into Saturn for Mission's ‘Grand Finale'
The spacecraft's last act will be a data-harvesting dive that collects the most detailed observations ever obtained of Saturn's atmosphere and ring... → Read More
The Andromeda Galaxy Could Be Buzzing With Dark Matter
There's a powerful gamma-ray signal blasting from the massive galaxy's core, possibly revealing a compact region filled with annihiating dark matter particles. → Read More
The Andromeda Galaxy Could Be Buzzing With Dark Matter
There's a powerful gamma-ray signal blasting from the massive galaxy's core, possibly revealing a compact region filled with annihiating dark matter particles. → Read More
The Andromeda Galaxy Could Be Buzzing With Dark Matter
There's a powerful gamma-ray signal blasting from the massive galaxy's core, possibly revealing a compact region filled with annihiating... → Read More
This Powerful New Technology May Be The Only Way To Explore Venus
Imagine building a robot that will land on Venus' hellish surface conditions...yikes. → Read More
This Powerful New Technology May Be The Only Way To Explore Venus
Imagine building a robot that will land on Venus' hellish surface conditions...yikes. → Read More
Valentine's Day Exoplanet Tugs at Its Star's Heart
For the first time, astronomers have spotted pulsations in a star caused by the gravitational interactions with a massive planet. → Read More
A Comet, Lunar Eclipse and a 'Snow Moon' Will All Grace Our Skies Tonight
The lucky coincidence of three astronomical events will happen, causing much excitement — but there's a catch. → Read More
A Star Just Ripped Comet Halley's Massive Cousin to Shreds
The Hubble Space Telescope has found a white dwarf star consuming a huge comet, scattering its remains throughout its atmosphere. → Read More
Mars Was Recently Hit by a Meteorite 'Shotgun' Blast
A cluster of recent meteorite impacts on Mars have been found, highlighting a deadly hazard for future Mars colonists. → Read More
Supermassive Black Hole Mauls, Shreds and Devours Unfortunate Star
Astronomers have seen an unprecedented "tidal disruption event" where a black hole in the center of a distant galaxy is thought to have ripped a star to sheds, taking 10 years to eat the stellar entrails. → Read More
Here's What Mars' Amazing Polar Ice Cap Swirls Look Like From Above
Courtesy of the European Mars Express orbiter, a new perspective of the Red Planet's north pole provides a stunning new view of the ancient Martian ice. → Read More
The Curious Case of Ceres' Vanishing Ice Volcanoes
The dwarf planet that orbits within the solar system's asteroid belt appear to have one solitary cryovolcano — which is strange. → Read More
Looking Into the 'Eye of the Storm' to Spy on a Brown Dwarf Hugging Its Star
Astronomers have created an ingenious new way of cancelling out the glare of distant stars to reveal the reflected light of closely orbiting exoplanets. → Read More
A Japanese Space Junk Removal Experiment Has Failed in Orbit
An experiment to test a tether mechanism that could be used to drag space debris from orbit appears to have glitched and scientists are working to troubleshoot before time runs out. → Read More
A Japanese Space Junk Removal Experiment Has Failed in Orbit
An experiment to test a tether mechanism that could be used to drag space debris from orbit appears to have glitched, and scientists are... → Read More
Cassini Reveals Breathtaking New Views of Saturn's Beautifully Complex Rings
During its latest "ring-grazing" orbit, the NASA mission captured some of its closest observations of the fine detail in the gas giant's rings — but the best is yet to come. → Read More