Space

On the heels of President Trump's directive to put "American astronauts launched by American rockets from American soil" on the moon's...

Press Release via Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & SmithsonianBERLIN, Germany & AMADO, Ariz. (April 16, 2019)—Scientists in the...

North Florida residents were startled by the appearance of a bright green meteor illuminating their evening skies just before midnight...

Vice President Mike Pence told NASA at the National Space Council that President Trump expects them to have American astronauts back...

Were it not for Reddit – and the tendency of its visitors to repost ancient video in search of sweet, sweet karma points – many of...

Nearly 10 years after its discovery, planet Kepler-1658b has now been officially recognized as an actual plant. It’s all thanks to...

The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule returned to Earth this morning after completing its resupply mission to the International Space Station...

Astronomers at the SETI Institute have discovered a previously unnoticed, city-sized moon orbiting Neptune, thanks to the Hubble...

A sharp-eyed Redditor found documentation from January of this year indicating that Mars One Ventures, the company behind Mars One, a...

In a rather surprising turn of events that is all but guaranteed to ignite specious "arguments" concerning the authenticity of the...

If you're seeing news of the upcoming super-blood-wolf-moon-apocalypse and thinking to yourself, "wait, didn't we just have one of...

When Buzz Lightyear said "To infinity...and beyond!", we doubt anyone took the idea seriously. Even Voyager 1 and 2, which are still...

The Cold War was a breakthrough period for science, despite the looming threat of nuclear armageddon. In addition to projects like...

Though you might not have heard of it, Barnard's Star is something of a celebrity among fans of science and sci-fi--apart from being...

If you were a scientist and someone asked you to measure how fast a massive black hole was spinning, how would you do it? According to...

Using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, a group of citizen scientists have made an intriguing discovery: an exoplanet twice...

Before you get too excited: none of us will be alive to witness this, so you'll have to use your imagination to picture what it would...

There are a million ways to die in space (as Cas Anvar from The Expanse is happy to point out), but one of the most terrifying has to...

Like Tabby's Star, the mystery surrounding 'fast radio bursts' (or FRBs) has piqued the interest of scientists and science enthusiasts...

On the heels of the recent claim that dark matter is really a kind of "dark fluid," a team of researchers published a new study that...