Space

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...

Since its first published photo in May, NASA's TESS (short for "Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite") has discovered more than 80...

The future is here, and it's shiny and chrome. SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to Twitter over the weekend to give his 24 million...

It's common knowledge that 911 call centers can usually track the location of a caller, but we're betting dispatchers would have been...

Astrophysicists at Durham University have some bad news for anyone who cares about the distant future of this galaxy. Based on the...

Remember when we said that China's lunar probe was in position and that any day now it would land on the dark side of the moon and...

While you were probably recovering from the night before on New Year's Day, NASA was making history again. The US space agency...

One giant leap for mankind? Maybe not. Futurism reports that SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk was asked by a follower via Twitter...

When considering models of the universe, there is one very important factor that researchers have struggled with: the presence of...

A couple of weeks ago, China reached a major milestone as its Chang'e-4 lander and rover entered the moon's orbit. Ending 2018 on a...

2018 was supposed to be the year of NASA test flight launches, but a series of delays has caused the space agency to make some...

One of the well-worn tropes in horror movies is discovering "the calls are coming from inside the house!" Well, the astronauts...