Space

Space is an important frontier for China. Long before the current boom of commercial interest in space, China was focusing on using...

It's no secret humanity has a littering problem, nor is it a particularly recent development, but the problem is growing larger as we...

NASA's Deep Space Gateway is finally taking shape--we already have an idea what it will look like, but only now are we starting to...

Ever since the Juno space probe arrived at Jupiter in 2016, we've been learning some absolutely fascinating things about the distant...

You all laughed at Armageddon when it portrayed a last-ditch effort to save Earth from destruction by blowing up an asteroid with a...

If you're looking for examples of balance and symmetry, look no further than nature. Here on Earth, there are countless examples...

The Stratolaunch was designed with the intent of "normalizing access to low Earth orbit," but despite having six Boeing 747 engines,...

Let's get a few things straight right out the gate: First, the scientist Erwin Schrödinger did more in his life than muse on the...

SpaceX celebrated the 50th launch of its Falcon 9 rocket early yesterday morning by successfully deploying a six-ton Hispasat 30W-6...

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...