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"A better understanding of Saturn’s environment is especially urgent now as plans for our return to Saturn and its moon ...

The “alien” is actually a potato. Specifically, it is a purple tuber nicknamed Spudnik-1, grown and photographed by Pettit.

NASA's powerful Launch Abort System, designed to outrun an exploding rocket, is the result of years of work from scientists ...

A 'space potato' grown aboard the ISS went viral for its alien look, but NASA astronaut Don Pettit says it highlights future ...

New Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope show Saturn in both infrared and visible light.

A strange, tentacled object floating aboard the International Space Station recently sent the internet into a frenzy, with ...

Revealing the limitations of cloning, researchers who repeatedly cloned mice for two decades have discovered that such serial duplication triggers grave genetic mutations that accumulate over the ...

NASA’s new chief is reshaping the space agency’s goals, unveiling an ambitious vision that includes revamped plans for a moon ...

But sometimes the most fascinating way to explore history is by asking a simple question: what if things had gone differently ...

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Scientists have long thought there are a series of pyramid-like structures on Mars, with recent images showing one that could ...