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Millions of NASA photos need to be scanned for icy objects before the New Horizons spacecraft flies by Pluto in 2015. NASA has teamed up with IceHunters to give you the ability to be part of the search.

Scientists have spent centuries studying our solar system. However, apparently we don't know everything about one of our closest planetary neighbors.

No one can actually see it. No one knows what it is or how it works. But, after a five-year study of 200,000 galaxies, scientists are as certain as they'll ever be that dark energy exists, and it is tearing our universe apart.

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.

In 1981 the Space Shuttle 'Columbia' launched, initiating 30 years of Space Shuttle service.

NASA Space Telescopes captured a massive explosion in a galaxy far, far away. No, it wasn't Alderaan, but a star being ripped apart by a black hole.

Astronomers have discovered an asteroid that looks to have an identical orbit to that of our very own planet, Earth.

The fine folks over at the Jet Propulsion Lab have put together a video showing us what the landing of the 'Curiosity' rover will look like.

The new rocket from SpaceX, known as the "Falcon Heavy," is slated to be the largest and most powerful space-bound rocket to be built since the end of the Apollo program.

A solar storm barely missed Mercury and the MESSENGER probe, thus avoiding what could have been a disaster for NASA.