Space

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...

Gamma rays may be most famous for creating The Incredible Hulk, but outside of the world of fiction, they're a fantastic source of...

Unlike that false alarm in Hawaii, this potentially cataclysmic piece of news is real: an asteroid between 22 and 68 meters in...

Though we're skilled at trashing our own planet, data over the last several decades reminds us that we've grown pretty adept at...

The hunt for intelligent life is proving more than a little futile.Throughout the universe, across billions and billions of stars, and...

The problem with exploring space is that it's really hard to keep your bearings when you're entirely surrounded by nothingness.While...

Last month, a series of reports amounted to what seemed like a watershed moment when the curtain was pulled back on a secret program...

Have you ever wanted to fly through space? In a non-lethal way, of course. And you'd probably have to pick a specific destination,...