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Today, I'd say that we're at least fairly certain that the Earth (and all the other planets) revolve around the sun, and not the other way around. I don't want to rule out some cra...

Your House Will Not Be Destroyed by an Asteroid, but You Can Calculate the Odds If You Want

Did you know that every year, about one asteroid between 16 and 33 feet wide hits the Earth? And when you look at asteroids that are less that 16 feet wide, the total that hit the...

John McCain Jokes About Ahmadinejad, Monkeys, and Iran’s Space Program on Twitter, Tells Everyone to Lighten Up

Arizona Senator and former Republican candidate for President John McCain thinks Twitter needs to lighten up and take a joke. After reports emerged that Iran President Mahmoud...

Planetary Resources Shows Off Some New Asteroid Mining Tech

Remember Planetary Resources? It's the startup funded by the Google co-founders, Jam...

The Moon Landing Wasn’t Faked, But Here’s Another Reason Why

There are still people out there who believe that the 1969 Moon landing was a hoax, perpetrated by the U.S. government and that everyone involved has successfully kept that fact fr...

NASA Releases New Cassini, Spitzer Photos For the Holidays

Just in time for the holidays, NASA has released two new space photos filled with festive greens and reds. The photo seen ab...

NASA Issues Contracts For Future Manned Spaceflights

NASA today announced that it has awarded three different companies contracts to develop technology that will enable commercial...

NASA Finds Mysterious Gullies on Asteroid Vesta’s Surface

NASA's Dawn mission has returned images from the giant asteroid Vesta that scientists say include long, narrow gullies along th...

Voyager Discovers New Region at the Edge of the Solar System

Excited NASA researchers today announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has encountered a new, unexpected region on its way out...

Rocky Planets Could Be More Common Than Previously Thought

Astronomers have now observed that the dust disc orbiting a brown dwarf contains millimeter-sized solid particles - the sa...

YouTube Space Lab’s Space-Traveling Jumping Spider Is Back On Earth

Last year, YouTube and Lenovo kicked off the YouTube Space Lab experiment, inviting teenagers around the world to have an experiment performed in space. There were over 2,000 entri...

Titan’s Atmosphere Shifts Abruptly, South Pole Vortex Forms

New data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows that a shift in seasonal sunlight has resulted in an abrupt, wholesale reversa...

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