Space

After this latest failure, you have to wonder: are Boeing and SpaceX cutting corners in the race to win more NASA contracts before...

It's a hard and dangerous job, but someone's gotta do it...or something? It's no secret that Russia (among many other countries with...

The youngest person ever certified for space travel is a 17-year-old girl from Louisiana. Alyssa Carson graduated from the Advanced...

If we were to host a system-wide beauty contest among the planets and accepted natural satellites as a valid skill, Jupiter would...

The MeerKAT radio telescope sent new photos of the center of our Milky Way galaxy as a Vulcan forge of energy throwing off heat and...

If you're like us, you've been impatiently waiting for your chance to board a rocket and fly into space since you were a little kid....

Before you ask: no, this is not the beginning of one of those big bug movies from the 1950s where insects the size of buildings attack...

Sometimes in life you get more than you bargained for – NASA has just confirmed that a near-Earth asteroid is actually two asteroids...

Imagine coming face-to-face with the Loch Ness monster and managing to take a picture of it, only to accidentally drop your phone...

Today marks the United Arab Emirates Space Agency’s fourth anniversary on the world stage as a competitive player in space and...

Exciting new evidence has revealed that an exoplanet 11 short light-years away from Earth may have all the qualities necessary to...

In Dante's Inferno – the first part of The Divine Comedy – the poet describes Hell as a series of nine concentric circles,...

Quasars are the brightest things in the universe. Astronomers have spotted several of them recently – but the discovery of PSO...

After two failed attempts, the Russian space agency Roscosmos has successfully sent a cargo freighter to the ISS via a new "fast...

During its final orbits around Saturn, which culminated in a fiery, destructive Grand Finale, Cassini managed to pick up something...

The most basic understanding of what NASA does is daily innovation and research on all things space-related. For outsiders looking...

For midwesterners, fireworks weren't the only things worth staring up at the sky for during this long holiday weekend. Hundreds of...

For years, Earth has been bombarded by cosmic rays emanating from a mysterious source astronomers couldn't identify. Now, new...

Today marks Earth's aphelion, the point in its orbit when we are farthest from the Sun! If you want to be exact, aphelion occurred...

Like the formation of Earth's Moon, Uranus' radical tilt has been a mystery for decades. The planet is so skewed that its equator sits...