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Little Big Universe: Tilt-Shifted Astro Images Make Space Look Tiny
Aww, how cute! What an adorable little... nebula? Although here it may look like it could fit in your hand,…
Where Does Gravity Come From?
Gravity. The average person probably doesn’t think about it on a daily basis, but yet gravity affects our every move.…
Watch This Asteroid Not Hit Earth
Earlier today the near-Earth asteroid 2013 NJ sailed by, coming as close as 2.5 lunar distances -- about 960,000 km/596,500…
The Day the Earth Smiled: Saturn Shines in this Amazing Image from the Cassini Team
This summer, for the first time ever, the world was informed that its picture was going to be taken from…
Chris Hadfield Tells Conan O’Brien What Happens to Underwear in Space
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield appeared on Conan last night, and if you missed it here's a clip in which Conan…
Early Supermassive Black Holes First Formed as Twins
It's one of the puzzles of cosmology and stellar evolution: how did supermassive black holes get so... well, supermassive... in the…
The Eerie Music of Interstellar Space
While it's true that there's no air to carry sound in space, starship explosions would be strangely silent and no…
Watch the Sun Split Apart
Here's your amazing oh-my-gosh-space-is-so-cool video of the day -- a "canyon of fire" forming on the Sun after the liftoff…
There Are Now Officially Over 1,000 Confirmed Exoplanets!
It was just last week that we reported on the oh-so-close approach to 1,000 confirmed exoplanets discovered thus far, and…
This is Comet ISON Seen From Mars
It's not much to look at, but there it is: the incoming comet ISON (aka C/2012 S1) as seen by the…