Space

Physicists have known for a while that the edge of a black hole is where the normal laws of the universe start to bend and warp--get...

NASA's no stranger to losing multi-million-dollar pieces of equipment--the Cassini satellite had its highly publicized Grand Finale...

Back in December 2014, Japan's JAXA space agency launched its Hayabusa-2 mission to the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu to collect...

NASA astronaut training is a very exclusive club to get in to. CBS News reports that there were a record 18,300 applicants last summer...

Astronomers have spotted some pretty amazing (and disturbing) things lurking in the far reaches of the universe, like a huge black...

Anyone who's seen the infamous CQB episode on The Expanse knows that a hull breach on a spacecraft is a red alert--right? Well,...

Water is the key for a lot more than just life in the cosmic scheme of things--as one of the most abundant solvents in the...

If this is a man's world, then it is most certainly a woman's universe. Scientific American reports that new research published in...

No matter how many times you see one, watching a meteor fall to Earth is still surreal--especially the most recent one near Perth....

Over the last seven months, technicians at Lockheed Martin have been carefully welding together the components of the capsule of the...

New Horizons has already broken new ground and made headlines with its first-ever close-up photos of Pluto and even found evidence for...

After carrying out several successful deliveries to the International Space Station, SpaceX is poised to become the first private...

Have you ever looked up at the stars and wondered which ones are already dead? It's common knowledge that it can take starlight a long...

Between drafting plans to protect Earth from giant asteroids, laying the groundwork for the Deep Space Gateway, and testing a new...

Every good space crew needs a great astrogator. Charting a course through stars and debris fields is a lot harder than driving...

According to NASA, the announcement of the Orion marked the first time in a generation that NASA had unveiled a spacecraft built for...

While NASA's OSIRIS REx mission heads to the asteroid Bennu and JAXA's Hayabusa2 investigates Ryugu, another asteroid has decided to...

Let's face it: most of us will never get the opportunity to go to space. Space tourism is on the way in the near future, but unless...

The best way to learn something new about an object is to get up close and personal with it. Scientists know a fair bit about...

If Chris Hadfield's recording sessions aboard the ISS didn't impress you, how about a zero-gravity tennis throwdown? Yesterday, NASA...