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Our knowledge of the galaxy just expanded significantly, thanks to NASA's Kepler space telescope. The exoplanet-finding machine allowed the agency to add 219 new planet candidates to their growing list. 10 of those planets...

IKEA is teaming up with NASA for the coolest collaboration this side of the moon. The Swedish furniture giant wants to figure out how to make a Mars habitat feel like a real home, so they spent a few days at the MDRS Habitat...

Due to global warming and rising temperatures, glaciers are slowly melting - and, in some cases, breaking apart. A massive 8-mile crack is steadily growing along Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf - and when it splits, the resulting...

Due to global warming and rising temperatures, glaciers are slowly melting - and, in some cases, breaking apart. A massive 8-mile crack is steadily growing along Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf - and when it splits, the resulting...

Humanity has never before touched the sun, but that's about to change. NASA is sending the Parker Solar Probe to the sun in 2018, and will get closer to the star's surface than any other spacecraft in history. They say the...

Souvenirs from humankind's missions to the Moon are extremely rare; NASA usually holds on to moon rocks or moon dust instead of allowing private owners to keep them...

An 18-year-old from Tamil Nadu in India has built what experts are hailing as the "world's lightest satellite." Bonus: NASA's going to send it into space. Rifath Shaarook's 1.5-inch cube weighs a mite 2.2 ounces—lighter...

Would you like to travel to Mars? Get in line. According to Stephen Hawking, humans need to leave planet Earth within 100 years or perish due to overpopulation, climate change, disease and artificial intelligence.[...]

Future Mars dwellers may actually be able to use locally-sourced materials for their buildings. Four University of California, San Diego engineers were able to press Mars-like dirt into bricks in a study funded by NASA. No...

A group of researchers from the University of Arizona, in collaboration with NASA scientists, have created an innovative inflatable greenhouse to help feed astronauts on other planets...

A mile-wide asteroid is about to swing by the Earth in the closest shave we've had in over a decade. Nicknamed 'The Rock' because of its massive size, the asteroid is barreling towards us at 75,072 mph - and it'll fly past...

One of Greenland's biggest glaciers could be in trouble. A Netherlands university professor pointed out a new chasm in the Petermann Glacier, as seen in satellite images. NASA's Operation IceBridge recently went over to...

In a live broadcast today, NASA researchers announced the agency has uncovered the existence of key ingredients for life as we know it on Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus...

What will humans eat on Mars? It's a daunting question: the red planet's frigid average temperature is around negative 80 degrees Fahrenheit and its thin atmosphere is comprised of 95.32 percent carbon dioxide. But not to...

In a development that has astronomers giddy with excitement, a new study published in Astronomical Journal has confirmed the existence of the first “Earth-like” planet with an atmosphere...