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Space Station Trio Returns Safely to Earth for Rare Night Landing After 141 Day Mission
Plummeting to Earth during a fiery atmospheric reentry within the cramped confines of their Russian Soyuz capsule, an international trio…
Watch Fast and Furious All-sky Aurora Filmed in Real Time
If seeing the Northern or Southern Lights hasn't been crossed off your bucket list yet, this video is the next…
How Many Moons Does Mars Have?
Many of the planets in our Solar System have a system of moons. But among the rocky planets that make…
Our Highest Resolution Views Yet of Pluto’s Surface
The New Horizons spacecraft has been slowly sending back all the images and data it gathered during its July flyby…
Zodiac Signs and Their Dates
The Zodiac once played an important role in humanity's cosmological beliefs. Today, they are no longer accurate and regarded as…
The Dwarf Planet Ceres
Located in the Solar System's Main Asteroid Belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, is the dwarf planet Ceres,…
The (Dwarf) Planet Pluto
Once known as the 9th planet of the Solar System, Pluto is now classified as a "dwarf planet", a Trans-Neptunian…
Mathematics: The Beautiful Language of the Universe
Let us discuss the very nature of the cosmos. What you may find in this discussion is not what you…
Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” I: A Lunchtime Conversation- Enrico Fermi and Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Welcome back to our Fermi Paradox series, where we take a look at possible resolutions to Enrico Fermi's famous question,…
What is Mars Made Of?
For thousands of years, human beings have stared up at the sky and wondered about the Red Planet. Easily seen…