Space

Astronomers have just found a planet with an even cooler sunset than Tatooine. Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for...

There are plenty of reasons humans could never live on a star, but for one star in particular, we can cross "unbreathable atmosphere"...

Humans are endlessly curious about the existence and nature of intelligent alien life, and so most of the conversation surrounding...

SETI just expanded its search for intelligent aliens in a big way. Over the next two years, a new initiative will search 20,000 star...

After a grueling national competition, NASA has just selected a team of Penn State scientists to build a...

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...