Photographer CJ Armitage of Brisbane, Australia captured this stunning view of the sunset solar eclipse on April 29, 2014 during the first solar eclipse of the year. (CJ Armitage) The moon took a bite out of the sun in the first solar eclipse of the year on Tuesday (April 29), a celestial ballet visible from Australia that captivated stargazers despite cloudy weather. Tuesday's solar eclipse was a "ring of fire" annular eclipse, but only for an uninhabited swath of Antarctica....

A mock-up of what a future Mars colony might look like. (Photo: Mars One) Imagine waking up on another planet, the Earth is just a speck in the sky and Mars dust is under your feet. If SpaceX founder Elon Musk has his way, being a citizen on an alien planet could be a possibility in your lifetime, Discovery News reports. Musk hopes his company will be able to fly humans to Mars within the next 12 years. Of course,...

Using moon rock samples gathered from the Apollo missions more than 40 years ago, German scientists say they've finally found evidence that confirms the moon was created in the wake of a cataclysmic collision between Earth and an ancient planet known as Theia some 4.5 billion years ago. For decades, the theory, known as the giant impact hypothesis, has been the most widely accepted explanation for the moon's formation. The hypothesis holds that the collision between Earth and Theia, an...