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Are you worried about the sun suddenly blinking out? Never fear — our star still has billions of years left to shine.

A Dyson sphere is the ultimate solution for living space and energy production.

Roughly 80% of the mass of the universe is made up of dark matter, a material that scientists cannot directly observe. So why do scientists think it dominates?

Five decades after the first moon landing, there are still people who think the whole thing never happened.

NASA’s future flagship telescope, WFIRST, will help us find potentially habitable exoplanets and study a mysterious phenomenon called dark matter.

Black holes are mysterious objects of extreme density, with such strong gravitational attraction that even light cannot escape from their grasp if it comes near enough.

String theory started as a simplification of everything, but has become increasingly complex over the years.

The discovery of Eris led to Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet.

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and was the first to be discovered.

Ed White, the first American to walk in space, was a pioneer of human spaceflight.

Solar sails traverse the oceans of space.

Artemis is NASA's plan to go back to the moon.

The Wright Brothers’ first plane flight in Kitty Hawk lasted just 12 seconds in 1903, but Orville and Wilbur made history with their Wright Flyer.

The 1903 Wright Flyer that made history's first flight was a relatively simple machine with propellers and wire controls.

"Lucky Lindy" electrified the world and changed public opinion about air travel.

Vera Rubin's discoveries showed that our universe is much more mysterious than anyone imagined.

The New Horizons spacecraft reached the dwarf planet Pluto in July 2015.

You've heard of black holes, but what about their inverted twins — white holes?

Most of the star nearest to Earth are red dwarfs, but they are too dim to be seen with the naked eye.