Space

There are a couple tenets astronomers and cosmologists live by: light sets the speed limit for the universe, nothing can escape a...

As the world gears up for the new space race, it's easy to forget that space isn't the virgin soil it used to be--thanks to decades of...

After weeks of speculation, Tiangong-1 — the falling space station which could crash nearly anywhere in the world — made its...

Astronomers can spot supernovas from a galaxy away (even quick ones), but observing individual stars is much harder. In the cosmic...

Rovers are so 20th century, and drones are so last year--NASA is looking to the future of space exploration and has a plan for...

When things are going well, we typically dispose of satellites that need to be taken out of orbit by landing them as far away from...

We're about to see a lot more Mars missions in the next few years, as space agencies and companies around the world prepare for the...

Mars may be named after the Roman god of war, but Venus is a much more hostile planet, with high pressures and an average surface...

You would think that as a falling satellite came closer and closer to Earth's atmosphere, we would be able to pinpoint exactly where...

Mars doesn't experience earthquakes (or rather, "marsquakes") in the same way Earth does, because Mars doesn't have appear to have...

Despite how little we know about dark matter, we can tell when it's there, from the way it impacts galaxies and causes strange...

There's nothing we can do to stop Tiangong-1, China's first space satellite, from falling out of orbit and crashing through the...

Mercury is special among the planets in our solar system for a number of reasons (not least because Han Solo has been spotted frozen...

Once it's finally in space, the James Webb Space Telescope will be one of the most powerful telescopes in NASA's arsenal. Which is...

What's the difference between a planet and a star?This isn't a set-up for a dumb joke, but rather a genuine question that astronomers...

The Milky Way galaxy is a big place.With well over a hundred billion stars and plenty of planets in orbit around them, it makes sense...

When SpaceX successfully launched their Falcon Heavy rocket last month, they didn't just launch a car into space. They made a pretty...

Supernovas pack a lot of punch, to put it lightly--they can outshine galaxies and expel more energy than our Sun's lifetime output,...

Though KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's star, is probably not host to an alien megastructure like a Dyson Sphere or an orbiting...

One of the biggest points of speculation surrounding exploration of our own solar system is whether or not many of the frozen, icy...