NASA's Magellan orbiter launched from Florida in 1989 helped scientists discover a vast underground lava tube on Venus in a major first.

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Dark matter doesn’t seem to interact with the matter we can see and touch, so scientists look for it in unusual places, like faraway galaxies and underground detectors.

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A doctoral student re-created a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.

INTA, using modeling techniques developed at the University of Oxford, has uncovered an unprecedented richness of small ...

Parents, children and families are set to have even more ways to enjoy the best of CBeebies, CBBC and BBC Bitesize, as BBC ...

Outer space contains more incredible phenomenons and unsolved mysteries than anywhere else—and we think it's just fascinating ...

Before humans sent the first dogs and chimps into space, there was genuine fear: Can a living creature evolved for gravity survive in sustained zero-G? Many posited that the result would be fatal, as ...

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