Space

Getting high while you're getting high—it's the easiest stoner joke to make about pilots or astronauts hypothetically consuming a...

No matter the time or place, if there's one thing that history has taught us it's that human beings are dirtbags. We have been killing...

Despite the scandals swirling around Elon Musk, which now range from smoking a spliff on a live podcast to calling a British cave...

According to a recent study led by University of Florida astronomer Jian Ge and published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...

Could we be one step closer to finally putting this cursed rock we call Earth in our rearview forever and moving on to a new world?...

To most people, Neil deGrasse Tyson is the cool uncle of popular science: he's humorous, wacky, and a little wise. In fact, he's the...

As Hurricane Florence closes in on Wilmington, North Carolina (where it's projected to make landfall tomorrow), the ISS managed to...

A lot of cyberpunk books and movies imagine a future where corporations control not just Earth, but the stars, too. It always seemed a...

Among the greatest mysteries in radio astronomy are things called FRBs, which stands for fast radio bursts. They are short, very...

A while ago, we reported on Sean Raymond's fascinating research into whether Isaac Asimov's fictional planet Kalgash (which was bathed...

Did you see that?According to EarthSky, comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner made its closest approach to our planet in over seven decades. The...

For some, Pluto always has been and always will be the ninth planet in our solar system. Back in 2006, the International...

After a couple failed attempts, NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover successfully collected a new rock sample by drilling into the planet's...

Using data from NASA's Kepler Space telescope, a grad school student and an international team of researchers have discovered an...

Wakey wakey eggs and bakey! Back in July, NASA's Kepler team placed their space telescope in sleep mode to make sure that the...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its 20-year run back in September of 2017, but not before delivering some pretty bizarre data that...

Need a little something extra to get you over the hump this week? Well we have some eye candy for you, courtesy of NASA/ESA, that may...

When most people think of mining, they think of coal, diamonds, gold, and other terrestrial materials that are either valuable...

As the famous Arthur C. Clarke quote goes, "The Space Elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing." Why all...

Last week there were reports that astronauts aboard the International Space Station found a leak that was traced to the Soyuz capsule...