Space

Stephen Hawking just announced Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative funded by billionaire Yuri Milner to build tiny, light-powered...

Stephen Hawking just announced his intention to work with billionaire Yuri Milner, Mark Zuckerberg, and other prominent scientists on...

NASA's Journey to Mars has faced some criticism as of late, but when NASA Chief and former astronaut Charles Bolden addressed the...

Yesterday, Stephen Hawking and billionaire Yuri Milner announced Breakthrough Starshot, a project that aims to build tiny,...

Right on the heels of Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner's announcement that they're developing tiny spacecrafts powered by light from...

Scientists rally to condemn growing rumors that the mysterious Planet 9 will wipe out life on Earth.During Outer Places' Science of...

On Thursday, the Kepler Spacecraft gave everyone a scare when a scheduled interchange revealed it had inexplicably switched to...

For the first time ever, SpaceX and Orbital ATK have launched spacecrafts and successfully attached them both to the International...

Could fungus be the key to getting humans to Mars? A new experiment may allow astronauts to grow their own medicines in space during...

Supernovae are, by nature, catastrophic cosmic events, but they're usually too far away to have a direct effect on our planet. Now, a...

Astrobiologists might have discovered the best place to look for alien life on Mars, in the form of a region called the Argyre basin,...

Scientists have discovered several small, rocky, relatively Earth-like planets within their star's Goldilocks zone that could...

For the last sixteen years, the Japanese remote sensing instrument Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer...

Astronomers have just found a planet with an even cooler sunset than Tatooine. Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for...

There are plenty of reasons humans could never live on a star, but for one star in particular, we can cross "unbreathable atmosphere"...

Humans are endlessly curious about the existence and nature of intelligent alien life, and so most of the conversation surrounding...

SETI just expanded its search for intelligent aliens in a big way. Over the next two years, a new initiative will search 20,000 star...

After a grueling national competition, NASA has just selected a team of Penn State scientists to build a...

A small object of unknown origin just crashed into Jupiter's atmosphere, and so far two astronomers have posted videos capturing the...

Japan just lost contact with their newest satellite, Hitomi. The satellite, whose name means "pupil of the eye" was supposed to...