Near the end of the nineteenth century there was a brief vogue among artists for mixing astronomical subjects and…
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How did Earth get its own Moon? For decades, the most popular origin story has been the "Big Splat" theory, which…
Our moon is a pretty big object. It’s big enough to be a respectable planet in its own right, if it were orbiting…
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will set down on Mars, via a revolutionary landing system dubbed the "sky crane". The…
Back in 1954, Jerome Bixby wrote a fantastic story called "The Holes Around Mars". It was all about the discovery of…
A stubby-winged plane launches itself from an airport runway on the outskirts of Berlin. When it reaches an altitude…
Heat wave driving you nuts? Don't you wish you could protect yourself from the sun, Arrakis-style?
The Cassini imaging team released today a near-true-color image and a movie taken during a flyby of Saturn's moon…
Was there ever life on Mars? In fact, could there still be microbes living on Mars now? It's still a distinct…