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FILE PHOTO: NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera image of earth

Large Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth Today

Tom James 19/04/2017

The asteroid 2014 JO25, discovered in 2014, will be...

Saturn and Titan, its largest moon. Credit: gsfc/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Why Titan’s ‘Long’ Dunes Could Be the Work of a Sand That Sticks

Vasudevan Mukunth 29/03/2017

New studies of Saturn's moon Titan should've made it...

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It’s Our Solar System in Miniature, but Could TRAPPIST-1 Host Another Earth?

Elizabeth Tasker 25/02/2017

Scientists have discovered seven Earth-sized planets packed around a...

Kepler-186f is seen in a NASA artist's concept released April 17, 2014.

Until We Get Better Tools, Excited Reports of ‘Habitable Planets’ Need to Come Back down to Earth

Joshua Tan 08/02/2017

Humanity's quest for 'habitable planets' needs to wait, the...

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

NASA Launches its First Probe to Collect Asteroid Samples

Irene Klotz 09/09/2016

Scientists believe asteroids and comets crashing into early Earth...

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-waves Observatory, LIGO India, gravitational waves, Albert Einstein, Kip Thorne, numerical relativity, Andrew Jackson, quantum physics, interference, Fabry-Perot interferometer, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Sabine Hossenfelder, neutron stars, neutron star merger, multi-messenger astronomy, ASTROSAT, Niels Bohr Institute,

Gravitational Waves Will Bring the Extreme Universe into View

Daniel Hoak 06/09/2016

The thousands of signals that should soon be observed...

Record 1,284 Planets Added to List of Worlds Beyond Solar System

Irene Klotz 11/05/2016

Scientists announced the largest single finding of planets to...