Space

The JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Hayabusa2 probe arrived at the asteroid Ryugu this past June, but it's been waiting for...

If you thought the Arctic was home only to the mysterious skyglow known as STEVE, we have exciting news for you: scientists have taken...

According to estimates, there are over 7600 tons of "space junk" floating around Earth right now. It's a serious problem that needs to...

Last April the ESA Gaia satellite released its first big dump of data, which gave astronomers the brightness, distances, and...

Earlier this week, we got to see the TESS spacecraft's "first light" images – the first photos a telescope takes after being fully...

When Stephen Hawking coined the term "spaghettification" to describe what happens when you're sucked into a black hole, we doubt he...

Another day, another weird signal coming from deep in space that scientists can't really explain. NASA reports that a strange signal...

Last May, NASA's TESS spacecraft (short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) took its first test photo of the cosmos, but...

There's a lot of weird stuff floating around in space, including interstellar grease and at least one asteroid worth about $700...

As we get closer to the idea of space tourism becoming a reality, the one constant question has been: "Who is rich enough to afford...

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...