The Marius Hills Pit is a large hole, approximately 213 by 295 feet (65 by 90 meters),...
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The Milky Way over the La Silla Observatory. (Image credit: J. Rodrigues/ESO)Dark clouds swirl across a sky...
The world's richest man just got some more hardware for his trophy room.During a ceremony at the...
Karl Schwarzschild works in his study in this image, taken sometime between 1909, when he moved to...
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Scientists theorize that early in the Solar System’s history, collisions were relatively common as planets migrated and...
Contrary to many people's initial suspicions, "Disclosure Day" is not a story of a weather forecast gone...
An old Soviet satellite has fragmented into multiple pieces in low Earth orbit, the latest in a...
Are there secret underground caves on the moon? NASA has a new program that aims to find...
The PRIMA space telescope, shown in this illustration, will survey the universe in far-infrared light from an...