Astrophysics

Calling all Rocketeers! Calling all Rocketeers! Aerospace mega-company Boeing has launched a global competition that could turn one...

It's been a fun few years for astronomers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). In just a few short...

Not to scare you, but if anything were to take out our means of worldwide communication, like, say, an enormous solar flare, we'd all...

Ever since Apollo 13 hit theaters in 1995, everyone remembers the scene where NASA staff were able to cobble together a square CO2...

Syfy's The Expanse has won praise from fans and critics for being one of the most scientifically rigorous sci-fi shows on TV, to the...

Last year's discovery of gravitational waves rocked the field of astronomy, and since then, researchers have pored over the strange...

The day has finally come. August 21st, 2017, the great American total solar eclipse. Millions across the country are flocking to bear...

Titan, Saturn’s largest Moon, has the potential to be an ideal location for human colonization and exploration within our Solar...

If you sat down to draw a lightning bolt, it would probably look like it’s facing down, reminiscent of Harry Potter’s scar. But...

Ever since Soundgarden's hit song, people have wondered what a "black hole sun" would look like. And the answer is actually pretty...

It looks like Star Wars may not have taken place so far, far away after all. Scientists have just announced a star system that is...

Today, after 20 years or research, CERN's ALPHA collaboration has announced the very first measurement of a spectral line in an...

ASASSN-25lh, a massive explosion detected in 2015, was first classified as a superluminous supernova - more specifically, the...

A spectacular celestial event might may foreshadow an ominous fate for Earth. Leen Decin, professor at the KU Leuven Institute of...

If you didn't make it to Outer Places' panel on the science of Star Wars this year at Comic-Con, here's the next best thing: a video...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was conceptualized two decades ago and has faced setbacks that have changed it’s estimated...

We've spoken in the past about Mass Effect's use of quantum entanglement to create a communicator that can transmit messages securely...

NASA has just received the first data and images of Jupiter’s north pole from the Juno spacecraft, and what they’ve found is...

The Planck satellite has recently gathered data that has led to some new calculations regarding the size of the observable universe....

Black holes are some of the most mysterious (and most frightening) features in our Universe. But as it turns out, they might be even...