Space

There's no denying that fossils are pretty cool. From the humble swirly ammonite to the towering T-Rex, there's plenty to get excited...

As of this morning, the Cassini spacecraft is no more. Its 20-year-long mission to explore Saturn and its moons, including Titan and...

R.I.P. Cassini, the hard-working space probe that's given us a far better understanding of Saturn and its moons.Following thirteen...

In case you needed any proof that space is just the coolest place ever, astronomers have found a super hot gas giant with an...

On the morning of September 6th, the Sun unleashed two brief eruptions of radiation. The first burst was classified as an X-class...

Earth's orbit continues to fill up with space debris, and while we haven't seen any real life recreations of Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity...

Cassini's final week is about to begin, with the the famous NASA probe ending its 20 year mission on Friday, September 15, by plunging...

It's long been established that, deep at the heart of our constantly swirling galaxy, there exists a fantastically powerful...

As part of his ongoing mission to boldly go where no vacation provider has gone before, Elon Musk has taken another step towards...

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...

The problem with space is that it's really, really big. There's a lot of dead space in between all the interesting bits, and that...

Like him or tolerate him, William Shatner is one of the biggest voices in science fiction culture. Playing Captain Kirk on the...

Back in May, the US Air Force's covert unmanned spaceship, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, returned to Earth after 718 consecutive...

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...

From this far away, it's eay to look up at the sun and think of it as merely a big ball of static light, kind of like a lamp or a...

For the most part, the only star that astronomers have gotten a detailed look at is our own Sun (even if they can't look directly at...

When we think of probes on the surfaces of alien worlds, our minds often conjure images of either the Mars Curiosity rover or that...

Batten down the hatches and brace for really bad news--something big is on the way, and it's not going to end well. Hurricane Harvey,...

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

Let's do some quick math here. Princeton and Yale's acceptance rate is about 6-7%, and Harvard's acceptance rate is around 5%. NASA's...