Space

On Thursday, NASA and the Department of Energy convened at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas to explain their joint...

The sun is losing mass very, very slowly. This is mostly normal —  as it goes about its nuclear fusion process, it gradually...

Being some of the larger things we've seen in the universe, a galaxy colliding with another galaxy is no small affair, and it can be...

Searching for signs of life on Mars is no easy task, for lots of fairly obvious reasons. Testing out any possible strategy is tough...

As you perhaps already know, Jupiter is an absurdly beautiful planet.Last year, NASA began releasing photos of our solar system's...

Black holes remain among the most mysterious galactic phenomena for good reason. We know that black holes are points in space where...

It seems like it was just a few years ago that we mourned the end of NASA's space shuttle program and waxed philosophical about the...

Last year, scientists used gravitational waves to detect the merger of two enormous neutron stars, far away in the NGC 4993 galaxy.The...

A new discovery from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute and the Mars Institute may have uncovered an...

At an official facility in Nevada, the US government is currently testing a prototype miniature nuclear reactor that should one...

The search for life on other planets is still pretty inefficient. While the vast majority of instruments on astrobiology missions are...

The 21st-century space race will be decided by which superpower becomes the first to make contact with alien life. And it looks like...

You may not be able to see it, but the universe is glowing.When viewed through an infrared lens, all of the known universe has a...

The wondrous discoveries that have been made by the Cassini space probe continue to astound scientists, long after the hardworking...

Science has long sought to explain exactly how water came to exist on Earth in the first place—now, we finally have an answer....

It might be time that we face facts: human beings really aren't designed to live in zero gravity.A new study into the biological...

Black holes are inherently very cool, and considering the really weird (and sometimes gassy) things that happen around them,...

There's an awful lot we still don't know about Phobos, one of the two moons in Mars' orbit, and images from NASA's Mars Global...

It's like Y2K all over again, except this time the force that could supposedly leave the planet in the dark is from space and not a...

The Cold War's "Space Race" may have ended in the 1970s, but we may be on the cusp of a new one: between China's plans to become the...