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NASA to test nuclear rocket engine that could take humans to Mars in 45 days

NASA has revealed plans to create a nuclear-powered rocket that could send astronauts to Mars in just 45 days. The agency, which has partner...

A strange star is moving through our galaxy at a speed that is hard to imagine. Astronomers found PSR J0002+6216, a lone runner moving at 2....

In a groundbreaking achievement, scientists have taken an actual picture of a planet in another star system using the European Southern Obse...

The findings suggest that if a high-powered 1-2MW laser were focused through a massive 30-45m telescope and aimed out into space, the combin...

A team of astronomers has discovered 25 fast radio bursts (FRBs), which are mysterious and extremely powerful pulses of radio waves that rep...

The skies of Venus may contain signatures of alien life, according to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the searc...

Scientists’ insatiable search for finding another planet that could support human life has just got a leg up following the discovery of two ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has long suggested that there's a chance 'Oumuamua, a mysterious object that visited our solar system ba...