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The astronomers, led by Takahiro Sumi if Osaka University in Japan, reported in the journal Nature there are hundreds of billions of planets that have been orphaned by their planetary systems. The planets have either been completely ejected out of orbit, meandering through space, or are distantly bound to their stars at a distance at least 10 times that of the Earth's distance from the Sun.

Greenpeace has come up with a new way of protesting nuclear power... well, it's not really "new," but it's pretty nifty. Not effective, but nifty.

A rather interesting infographic charts the history of web browsers, from the first instance of Netscape, through the rise of Internet Explorer and the crowded market of today.

The NASA MESSENGER satellite has established orbit around Mercury and is now transmitting back to Earth the first images ever shot from the planet's orbit.

If you weren't lucky enough to catch the latest "Northern Lights event," fear not! A time-lapse video can now show you every breathtaking moment of the spectacle.

If you've ever wondered what 'Super Mario Bros.' would look like if it were rendered in a first-person perspective, two things: 1.) you should be ashamed of yourself, 2.) you're in luck!

KOI 326.01, the planet scientists believed to be a candidate for "Earth-like" planetary status, now appears to not be so much "Earth-like" thanks to a calculation error.

This stunning image was snapped by a NASA physicist during his visit to a conference on auroras, of all things.

A photographer in Switzerland captured this breathtaking shot of the night sky, giving us a view that many who live in cities never get to see.

Ancient fissures left by long-absent water coursing over the Cydonian Plains of Mars? Dessicating petroglyph in Lascaux's trove of Paleolithic cave art? Or paint drying on an old board? Answer after the jump.