Space

Asteroid 2010 WC9 was first detected way back on November 30, 2010 by the Catalina Sky Survey at the University of Arizona, who ended...

This Mother's Day, instead of sending your mom a normal Earth rose, NASA wants you to send a giant, cosmic space rose.More...

Throughout its history, the Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX has launched over 50 times, an impressive feat that speaks to the reusable...

Since its launch back in 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has done nothing but look out for signs of exoplanets, which are simply...

Honorary degrees are highly esteemed and typically something worth showing up in person for, unless there are extenuating...

We have rovers on Mars' surface, and orbiters like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter  floating around the planet, but we don't have...

An automatic abort yesterday shut down the latest SpaceX Falcon 9 launch. Is their cutting-edge technology safe enough for manned...

A team of astronomers used music to unlock the mysteries of star formation in interstellar clouds.

At the center of our galaxy is a supermassive black hole (just like in many other galaxies) named Sagittarius A*. And it may have some...

While there's plenty of asteroids on the edge of our solar system — there is an entire Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune, after all —...

Astronomers accidentally discovered a brand new "baby" exoplanet that has been hiding in plain sight for years.

Stephen Hawking's Breakthrough Listen initiative is launching a massive brand-new project to find advanced alien life in the Milky Way...

On Earth, dust is treated as little more than a fact of life: an accumulation of detritus to be swept up, vacuumed, and wiped from...

Researchers at Columbia University's Cool Worlds laboratory – part of their Department of Astronomy – have discovered that...

With all the exoplanets we've been discovering lately, it's tough to actually find a clear sky in all these alien atmospheres.Until...

It's hard to imagine that we'll worry about the sun toward the end of its life. Since it has at least 5 billion years left, there's a...

The world's first interplanetary CubeSats have an adorable story behind their unlikely nicknames.

A recent video posted by UFO-hunting YouTuber Secureteam10 shows a compelling photograph of a triangular UFO at the exact moment...

Later this summer, SpaceX will launch a test Dragon capsule that's designed to carry humans. If it works out, then SpaceX will start...

The James Webb Space Telescope is an ambitious project, set to be much more powerful than Hubble once it's actually in...