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Your July horoscope — learn how to sharpen your claws during the season of the crab
June 26, 2024 | 8:41pmJuly is nigh — the heat of summer and the codependent claws of Cancer season are upon us.
‘Parade of Planets’: How to see the June 3 event and what it means for your astrological sign
May 29, 2024 | 1:45pmThe good news? Six out of nine of our solar system's luminaries — Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — will be visible at once in a rare event....
Space laser transmission strikes Earth from 140 million miles away: NASA
April 29, 2024 | 11:11amEarth just received a laser transmission from a world (and perhaps universe) record-breaking 140 million miles away -- which could have major implications for the future of space travel.
How fungi can swallow abandoned homes for new growth in strange process called mycotecture
March 18, 2024 | 9:59pmThere's no cap to the magic of mushrooms.
Scientists discovers giant volcano on Mars: 'Hidden in plain sight'
March 15, 2024 | 1:26pmScientists say they have discovered a giant volcano hidden in plain sight on Mars.
Snickers denies Biden's SOTU accusation that it has reduced candy bar sizes in 'shrinkflation'
March 11, 2024 | 2:04pmPresident Biden blasted Snickers as an example of "shrinkflation" during his State of the Union address last week -- but the candy bar's manufacturer denied that it has been quietly...
'Martians wanted:' NASA looking for crew to spend one year locked in Mars simulator
February 21, 2024 | 12:42amWhy move to another city when you can spend a year on Mars?
NASA's historic Mars helicopter Ingenuity grounded for good after 72 flights
January 26, 2024 | 12:19amNASA likened Ingenuity's achievement at Jerezo Crater to the historic first controlled flight of the Wright brothers' motor-driven airplane near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in December 1903.
Earth receives message from 10 million miles away in historic breakthrough
November 21, 2023 | 2:30pmHow's this for a long-distance call?
Life on Mars? New book explores pitfalls of colonizing the cosmos: 'Space is terrible'
November 18, 2023 | 1:59pmThe authors of a new book say "space is terrible" and that living in the cosmos would mean disgusting food, awkward sex and anarchy.
Alien-like ‘devil’ spotted creeping across Mars
October 2, 2023 | 12:02pmWhat in the devil? A mysterious Martian image captured by NASA's Perseverance rover on Aug. 30 has been revealed to be a dust devil. The 12-mph whirlwind was calculated to...
NASA rover generates oxygen out of unbreathable Mars air in red planet breakthrough
September 13, 2023 | 6:25amA breakthrough instrument on NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is considered a mission success after producing enough oxygen for a small dog to breathe for about 10 hours.
India's successful moon landing another sign of the New Space Age
August 24, 2023 | 7:22pmThe world's largest democracy reached the moon this week. Huzzah!
Mars colony could survive with 22 people — just don't bring these losers
August 23, 2023 | 7:35pm"Establishing a human settlement on Mars is an incredibly complex engineering problem," the researchers wrote.
Possible new evidence of life on Mars discovered
August 19, 2023 | 2:55pmScientists have discovered evidence of wet-dry cycles on Mars — an environment that is favourable for the emergence of life.
Mars is spinning faster, its days getting shorter — one theory why
August 8, 2023 | 5:30pmResearchers found that Mars' rotation is accelerating by about 4 milliarcseconds per year — making the length of a Martian day shorter by a fraction of a millisecond per year.
NASA launching a streaming service: 'A new era of pioneers'
August 6, 2023 | 4:59pmThe agency uploaded a minute-long teaser trailer for NASA+ that has amassed 125,000 views since it was posted on July 27.
NASA discovers possible 'key building blocks for life' on Mars
July 12, 2023 | 1:39pmNASA's Perseverance rover found "organic molecules" on the red planet.
Candy fans shocked over the meaning of 'Twix' chocolate bar
July 7, 2023 | 11:52amCandy fans are in disbelief over what Twix means — after a 2018 tweet resurfaced exposing its sweet truth.
NASA locks 4 volunteers into 3D-printed virtual 'Mars' for over a year
June 27, 2023 | 6:48amResearch scientist Kelly Haston, structural engineer Ross Brockwell, emergency medicine physician Nathan Jones and US Navy microbiologist Anca Selariu were locked into the virtual planet at the Johnson Space Center...