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January 9, 2019

NASA spacecraft snaps incredible picture of Earth

Nearly a month after it reached its destination, circling the asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has snapped an incredible image of the Earth.

January 8, 2019

Hubble space telescope captures amazing galaxy image

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped an amazing image of the Triangulum Galaxy, which is 3 million light years from our own Milky Way Galaxy. The image is comprised of 665 million pixels and was created from 54 different images, a view in space so large that it spans "an area more than 19,000 light-years across."

January 6, 2019

Milky Way will collide with nearby galaxy, hurtling solar system into space, report says

A nearby galaxy will slam into the Milky Way galaxy and send the solar system, where Earth resides, hurtling into space, according to a journal article in the Royal Astronomical Society.

January 4, 2019

NASA announces latest discoveries from Ultima Thule flyby

NASA has announced the latest discoveries from the New Horizons spacecraft’s historic flyby of Ultima Thule in the far reaches of our solar system.

January 4, 2019

'Fossil' cloud made up of pure hydrogen could be remnants of the Big Bang

The Big Bang is generally accepted to have occurred roughly 13.7 billion years ago, a time when the universe contained light elements, the heaviest among them hydrogen. From there, elements with significant heft permeated throughout the universe as we know it today.

January 3, 2019

Scientists find the 'missing' dark matter from the early universe

Dark matter, it seems, has been clinging to galaxies for a very long time.

January 3, 2019

NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman

LAUREL, Md. — A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman.

January 2, 2019

Alien planets rich in oxygen may not necessarily be home to life, shocking study says

A new study published in December suggests that exoplanets rich in oxygen may not necessarily contain alien life, despite the fact the element is a critical component for life on Earth.

December 15, 2018

Mars 'terror,' future Moon missions and an epic journey to the Sun: 2018’s year in space

2018 has been a busy year for space exploration. Here are some of the highlights.

December 14, 2018

Huge green fireball from Geminid meteor shower captured on Indiana officer's dash cam

An Indiana officer got a stunning view of the Geminid meteor shower — known as one of the best meteor shows of the year — from his patrol car late Wednesday.