Space

While it's always cool to see a detailed photograph of planets like Saturn, sometimes our space probes are capable of more artsy...

Assuming you're not mentioned anywhere in the Voyager 1 probe's records in interstellar space, you have an opportunity to send your...

Spare a thought for the Tiangong-1, a space station and laboratory that isn't going to be in orbit for very much longer.The base,...

Bright lights, debris clouds, and other weird phenomena are littered throughout the universe, but there's nothing else quite like the...

The sheer number of potentially world-ending asteroids swinging by our planet each month is enough to make a stargazer paranoid, but...

Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) and Italian-based space company SITAEL reached a major milestone for the future of...

Getting up early is always a difficult experience. It can be disheartening to have to climb out of bed while it's still dark out and...

While you were watching The Shape of Water win Best Picture at the recent Academy Awards, or other great sci-fi films like Blade...

Beginning in 1969, astronauts aboard the Apollo missions collected rocks and other geological samples from the surface of the moon,...

Considering what little we know about the earliest moments of the universe, what happened before then is an even greater...

All things considered, the Earth is small--very small. Out of the thousands of exoplanets we've found over the past few years, only a...

Everything that we think we knew about the growth of black holes has just been flipped on its head--scientists have discovered a...

This is the part where we cue the yellow text crawl, John Williams' score, and sounds effects of TIE fighters and X-Wings, but we're...

Just the other day, news broke that radio signals created by some of the earliest stars in the universe had finally reached Earth...

Searching the known universe for Earth-like planets is a tiring process, because even beyond its size and relative distance from the...

Last year, US President Donald Trump put forth a revised budget for NASA that is set to implement several key changes to the way...

This coming Friday, March 2, an near-Earth asteroid will be sweeping within 70,000 miles (113,000 kilometers) of our planet's...

Bad news, fans of giant space cameras: the James Webb telescope, intended as the new pinnacle of NASA's achievements, is in pretty bad...

It's not possible to get a good look at the Big Bang. While telescopes can be used to see millions of years into the past, thanks to...

Plenty of planets have moons, but our Moon is special for a couple of major reasons--including the fact that it's proportionally...