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Significant amounts of water exist on Mars, sequestered within hydrated minerals and stored in the p
John Carter is the latest in a string of movies set on the Red Planet that have all wound up in the
A new study explains why the odds favored the man-in-the-moon side to always face Earth. John Matson
Dark matter doesn't usually collide much with itself or with ordinary matter, but it appears to be u
Rockfalls visible in orbiter images of Mars indicate that geologic activity occurred just a few mill
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn went to space, becoming the first American in orbit, and a national
The black hole at the center of Milky Way could be steadily feeding on a cloud of asteroids, produci
The Flame Extinguishment Experiment, or FLEX, on board the ISS allows researchers to study zero-grav
The Kepler spacecraft has found 26 previously unknown exoplanets orbiting 11 stars. John Matson repo
The 2012 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is now accepting entries. John Matson report
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has found two binary star systems that each host a planet, implying that mi
The twin GRAIL craft will map lunar gravity and could find evidence for the remains within the moon
This month the International Telecommunication Union will consider a proposal to abolish leap second
Irregular natural satellites, captured from the population of near-Earth asteroids, orbit Earth for
Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, via his new venture, Stratolaunch Systems, hopes to launch spacecr
Galaxies NGC 3842 and NGC 4889 host black holes, each of which about 2,500 times the mass of the one
NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered its first exoplanet that could be at temperatures allowing li
The newest Mars rover, Curiosity, dwarfs NASA's previous rovers in size and scientific prowess. John
A class of wandering stars called OB runaways may have been thrown from home by competing binary sta
New telescopes could spot aliens on planets around distant stars, if they like their cities really b
