WHERE SCIENCE MEETS SCIENCE FICTION
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...
Starting this past January, the United Arab Emirate's Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) has been conducting interviews to...
With the Fourth of July just one day away, we thought it'd be fun to put all those M-80s and sparklers into perspective by showing you...
As the Hayabusa2 spacecraft studies the asteroid Ryugu and the OSIRIS REx mission closes in on the monster rock known as Bennu, a new...
Along with monkeys and dogs, mice are one of the few species that have racked up major frequent flyer miles on spacecraft, and now...
After introducing his theory of general relativity in 1915 and turning the scientific world on its head, Albert Einstein wasn't happy....
Astronauts have brought some strange things into space, including $2 bills, a penny-sized chip with art by Andy Warhol, and (most...
Despite tens of thousands of meteorites entering Earth's atmosphere each year, the vast majority of them burn up before they ever hit...
Using the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), a group of astronomers led by a team at...
To get an idea of just a few of the requirements for a habitable, Earth-like planet, here's a short list: it has to orbit its star at...
When most people imagine space, they usually see it as a cold, empty void with some dust and gas floating around, but that's about it....
There is something strange happening in space that astronomers admit that they can not explain. According to Tech Times, at least 18...
An international cohort of scientists analyzing data from mass spectrometers aboard NASA's Cassini space probe have discovered...
The Hubble Telescope has captured some amazing images from space, but the new image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE...
Today, June 27th, 2018, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 closed in on the asteroid Ryugu, where it will aim to collect samples,...
Between SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and now Asgardia (the first space nation!), low orbit seems like it's poised to become the next...
It's not the Space Force, but Bill Nye (everyone's favorite scientist and the man who made bow-ties and lab coats cool) and his...
