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December 1, 2017

Mega-landslides on Mars may speed down slopes at 450 Mph

Powerful landslides may rumble down Martian slopes at up to 450 mph (725 km/h), sped along by slippery ice, a new study suggests.

December 1, 2017

NASA is building a new rover to look for life on Mars

Space is the final frontier. And if NASA has its way, its new Mars rover may be able to go where no man has gone before and find signs of ancient life – and not just ones that lived a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

November 30, 2017

Interplanetary-internet test sends Antarctic selfie to Space Station

A selfie sent from Antarctica to the International Space Station demonstrated an extra-robust communication network that promises to make an interplanetary internet more reliable.

November 30, 2017

Stellar storms may light up signs of life on alien planets

Stellar storms, or eruptions of material that are regularly spewed into space by stars, could help scientists search for potentially habitable environments on alien planets, according to a new study.

November 29, 2017

Rocket launch will prove Earth is flat, California man says

A California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a home-built rocket to prove that astronauts faked the shape of the Earth.

November 29, 2017

Scorching-hot alien planet may have Earth-like atmosphere

A planet circling a star in the constellation Cancer might have an atmosphere similar to Earth's, but with dayside temperatures hot enough to melt titanium, a new study suggests.

November 29, 2017

72 unseen galaxies found hiding in plain sight

Astronomers have found 72 potential galaxies hiding in plain sight inside a vast patch of the sky previously observed by the Hubble Space Telescope .

November 29, 2017

Little green men? Pulsars presented a mystery 50 years ago

Fifty years ago this month, a small group of astronomers made a revolutionary cosmic discovery — explaining a phenomenon that they initially thought might come from an intelligent alien civilization.

November 28, 2017

Now available: same record we shipped to extraterrestrials in 1977

Somewhere out in the great abyss of space, an alien may be jamming to Chuck Berry this very moment.

November 28, 2017

Quirky comet has unexpected composition, NASA study shows

A strange green comet that zoomed past Earth earlier this year is unlike any other comet observed to date, according to new NASA research.