Space

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...

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...