We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

Some space conspiracy theories just won't go away.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...

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Sanctuary on the Moon’ is a lunar time capsule that provides a detailed guide to life on Earth for our future selves.

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth ...

Deimos is Mars' outer moon. It's a tiny, irregularly shaped moon and smaller than Mars' other moon, Phobos. Despite being unspectacular, Deimos remains a fascinating mystery. Deimos is one of only ...

Average stars like our sun die ignominiously. They swell to enormous size, cool from yellow to red hot, and shed most of ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...