Space

While there are still various plans underway to get human-made tech and eventually humans to set up shop on Mars, some aerospace...

The future of the International Space Station is very unsteady, but we know what the recently appointed head of NASA is hoping for. It...

About 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away, close to the outer edges of our solar system, a quiet space probe has just...

Back in 1977, astronomers probably scoffed at the twin suns of Luke Skywalker's home planet for the same reason modern scientists...

Evidence has been piling up for the existence of a ninth planet in our solar system, but no one has directly observed this supposedly...

Early last year, SpaceX made headlines when they announced they were sending two private citizens to the Moon in 2018. Now...

Anybody who got to watch astronaut Chris Hadfield rock out to David Bowie's Space Oddity from the International Space Station (ISS)...

An exoplanet (a term which simply means a planet in another solar system) like WASP-127b is one of the last places you'd expect to...

For non-astronomers, it's easy to imagine that the edge of the solar system is simply the point where nothing is orbiting around the...

A typical spacecraft is large, bulky, and extremely expensive. A CubeSat is not a typical spacecraft.CubeSats are a fairly new and...

When the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, a scientific agency that studies Earth's oceans and skies)...

As the Hubble Space Telescope frequently surveys the observable universe, it likes to remind us how frequently galaxies seem to...

The Dawn spacecraft first made a pass around the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015, and its findings were fascinating enough that NASA...

It seems like astronomers get to explore all the cool mysteries: What black holes look like, how big the Milky Way is, whether an...

Staring up at the moon on a clear night is generally a very cool and calming experience, but according to a group of scientists, the...

Both Jupiter and Saturn have lots of moons, and some of them like Europa could possibly support life. But they're hindered greatly by...

Dunes on another planet may not seem like an especially important find, but they actually only appear under specific conditions. "Lots...

Does any natural force endure more in the human psyche than the Sun? For purposes both practical and spiritual, pragmatic and social,...

For all its wonders and mysteries just waiting to be discovered, outer space has no pizza. And that is deeply unfortunate.It's...

Some of the wonders of the universe look like the Ant Nebula: giant, iridescent patterns splashed across the face of the void....