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These tiny worms can survive forces 400,000 times stronger than Earth’s gravity

By Katherine Kornei, Scientific American

New findings give some weight to the idea that life was blasted here from another planet.

NASA spacecraft rockets toward sun for closest look yet

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

A NASA spacecraft zoomed toward the sun Sunday on an unprecedented quest to get closer to our star than anything ever sent before.

WATCH: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe blasts off for 7-year mission around the sun

By Nsikan Akpan

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched at 3:31 a.m. ET on Sunday. Watch live here.

WATCH: As the longest lunar eclipse arrives, learn about blood moon myths from around the world

By Daniel Brown, The Conversation

On Friday, millions of have the opportunity to see a lunar eclipse – an event popularly known in the media as a “blood moon” – on Friday…

Life on Mars? Watery new discovery raises tantalizing possibilities

By Miles O'Brien

Scientists have finally found for the first time a large watery reservoir beneath the southern ice cap of Mars. Radar suggests it is more than 12 miles wide and similar in some ways to lakes found beneath the Greenland and…

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Mars has a giant hidden lake. Could there be life in it?

By Lee Billings, Scientific American

Deep beneath the frigid surface of its southern ice cap, Mars holds a lake of liquid water nearly three times larger than the island of Manhattan.

Who owns the moon? A space lawyer answers

By Frans von der Dunk, The Conversation

Since the beginning of the space race, the United States knew that for many people around the world the sight of a U.S. flag on the Moon would raise major political issues.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will ‘shake’ hands with sun, thanks to small push from Venus

By Anna Kusmer

With the Parker Solar Probe, NASA must strike the perfect balance between flying close enough to collect data but not so close that it burns up. Here’s what the mission will take.

‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar visitor, is just a comet

By Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American

Oumuamua is almost certainly a comet, albeit one fittingly alien from those we find orbiting the sun, according to a new study published Wednesday.

Hayabusa2, a Japanese spacecraft, arrives at Ryugu asteroid to retrieve minerals

By Jeremy Hsu, Scientific American

If all goes according to plan, two spacecraft will commence close encounters with two asteroids by the end of August, in order to retrieve organic materials dating back to the solar system’s birth.