Space

A small object of unknown origin just crashed into Jupiter's atmosphere, and so far two astronomers have posted videos capturing the...

Japan just lost contact with their newest satellite, Hitomi. The satellite, whose name means "pupil of the eye" was supposed to...

Next week, NASA will attempt to send a payload to the ISS using the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, for the first time since the rocket...

Kepler has just observed the brilliant flash from the explosion of a star, or the "shock breakout" of a supernova." NASA released a...

Tomorrow morning, a lunar eclipse will be visible from Earth when the Moon moves into Earth's shadow and makes the whole world a...

Scientists think liquid nitrogen once flowed on Pluto's surface, and may even still lie beneath the ice on the dwarf planet today....

Two comets are about to zoom past Earth, and while only one of them will be visible to the naked eye, the other will mark the closest...

Andy Weir's The Martian (and it's subsequent big screen adaptation) has helped push Mars, Science and Space Exploration into the...

Hubble just got a glimpse into a gorgeous "land of giants," the largest collection of monster stars ever observed by astronomers,...

How would the protagonist on The Martian have fared on the Red Planet?

The long-running mystery of Ceres' white spots may have been virtually solved late last year, but there's still plenty we don't know...

The ISS has played host to many weird experiments, including those involving fruit fly astronauts, hard liquor, a dozen mice, beer...

Russia has just announced plans to build a nuclear space engine that will be ready for the testing stage in 2018, with the goal of...

Astronomers have found the largest object in the universe--so far: a structure made up of galaxy superclusters, aptly named the BOSS...

China just announced plans to build a space telescope that is even more powerful than NASA's Hubble, which will observe and image our...

There are several star chart apps on the market with augmented reality, including the Star Chart app from Escapist Games. But now,...

The only full solar eclipse of the year happened on Tuesday night, and it was such a momentous event, Alaska Airlines changed one of...

Could we be one step closer to a viable plan for a Mars colony? Researchers from the Netherlands have performed an experiment in which...

The famously secretive space travel company Blue Origin was opened to press for the first time yesterday. This would be exciting...

Tomorrow night, on March 8, the Moon will pass directly between the Earth and the Sun, temporarily blocking the light of the Sun from...