Space

When it comes to finding a place to park its spacecrafts, NASA doesn't just drive around waiting for someone close to the building to...

With companies like Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic selling pricey seats aboard their spacecrafts for the first wave of...

Bill Nye is many things – beloved educational figure, science celebrity, and the original Science Guy – but now he has a new...

The ISS recently released an adorable little cubesat to help harpoon space junk orbiting Earth, but it's small potatoes compared to...

Some people like to look at clouds and point out which ones look like a face. Sometimes NASA does the same thing – on a much bigger...

The nearest yet-discovered black holes are still thousands of light years away from Earth, so getting to one and seeing it with our...

Can't make it to one of NASA's launching sites to witness the spectacular view in person? If you're on the East Coast of the United...

There was a brief moment of joy and excitement for those watching NASA's Deep Space Network yesterday when – after five months of...

Since it was first spotted around a year ago, our solar system's first interstellar asteroid has been one of the most talked about...

Is a crater still a crater if it has been filled with ice? According to NASA, the answer is yes, and a massive one has been discovered...

In a new paper published in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers have shared that there may be a super-Earth...

Sunspots and solar radiation are a part of life, whether we're aware of them or not. Like the changing of the seasons, the Sun goes...

Aside from the US and China, Russia has established itself as one of the biggest players in the new space race, despite some recent...

In a statement on Tuesday, NASA announced that its Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport...

In a quarter century, humans will inhabit two planets in our solar system. That bold prediction was made by NASA officials on Tuesday...

Over the past year or so, different scientific studies have argued that so-called 'rogue planets' (ie, planets without a star to...

A 'dark matter hurricane' sounds like something out of a comic book, but it's nevertheless real (as far as we know--dark matter is a...

This past Friday, a British Airways pilot radioed in to air traffic control at Ireland's Shannon Airport to inquire about something...

After decades of NASA missions with names like "Apollo" and "Gemini," it's refreshing to see a space mission (or at least a rocket...

Just before Halloween, NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its 16th close flyby of Jupiter, snapping images just 4,400 miles above the...