Astronomy

If you took all of planet Earth's supply of gold, melted it down (minus impurities), and attempted to fill as many Olympic-sized...

No, it's not Pluto. Unfortunately for die-hard astronomy fans, Pluto is still languishing in its dwarf planet classification, and now...

In the search for alien life, liquid water always seems to be the Holy Grail. Oceans are even better--oceans mean a lot of water and...

Fact: staring directly at the sun is a bad idea. The bright light from our planet's star can cause genuine retinal damage to anyone...

Some things in our solar system never change. Saturn? It has those cool rings. Neptune? Has that cool blue color. Jupiter? Has a giant...

In a time of instant messaging and the ability to circulate data around the world with a minimal delay, sending and receiving...

We like to think we know a lot about space. We can identify the chemical composition of an exoplanet's atmosphere from light-years...

Life needs a couple basic things: Reasonable temperatures, a lack of stellar radiation, and liquid water.If Proxima Centauri b is any...

Out of the many tasks which involve the Hubble Space Telescope, one in particular involved an "Indiana Jones-type quest" (NASA's...

Some of the flashiest and most gigantic events we've seen out in space involve galaxies colliding into each other. A galactic merger...

This past Wednesday, people from Oregon to British Columbia witnessed one of the biggest fireballs in years and heard what was likely...

Bright lights, debris clouds, and other weird phenomena are littered throughout the universe, but there's nothing else quite like the...

The sheer number of potentially world-ending asteroids swinging by our planet each month is enough to make a stargazer paranoid, but...

Getting up early is always a difficult experience. It can be disheartening to have to climb out of bed while it's still dark out and...

All things considered, the Earth is small--very small. Out of the thousands of exoplanets we've found over the past few years, only a...

Just the other day, news broke that radio signals created by some of the earliest stars in the universe had finally reached Earth...

Searching the known universe for Earth-like planets is a tiring process, because even beyond its size and relative distance from the...

It's not possible to get a good look at the Big Bang. While telescopes can be used to see millions of years into the past, thanks to...

If the phrase "ultraluminous x-ray source" sounds cool to you, rest assured the actual thing is just as fascinating. First...

Five years from now could see humans living near the moon. Part of President Trump's 2019 NASA budget proposal allocates $2.7 billion...