Roughly 4.5 million years ago, the sun passed remarkably close to two intensely bright stars whose radiation flooded nearby space…

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With just 10 days to Christmas, many of us are embarking on the annual last-minute gift hunting. But what should…

A giant, city-size “butterfly” that was carved into the surface of Mars millions of years ago just got a new…

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may be hiding a habitable world of slushy sea ice, new research hints.Back in 2008, NASA’s…

Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.D. student at Purdue University  NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is currently trekking towards exciting new terrain.…