Space

For years, we’ve accepted that one the greatest and most mysterious things about black holes is the fact that we just can’t see...

If you thought comets were just flashy rocks that show up every now and then to entertain stargazers, you're in for a surprise.  ...

An increasing body of research suggests that life on Earth came from outer space.The theory is simple: while the Earth was a ripe and...

Far away, in a distant dwarf galaxy, something may be trying to get our attention. Since 2016, scientists have been baffled by the...

Sometimes we fail to notice an important detail, even when it’s right in front of us. Scientists are aware of how the slightest...

We've said it before, but it seems like the universe keeps proving that it's a lot more complicated than the Drake Equation would lead...

A Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) led team of engineers and researchers from the Penn State Department of Aerospace...

2017 was a year of excitement among the asteroid-watching community, as 'Oumuamua, the first recorded visitor from an another solar...

Here on Earth, we love our trash. Landfills are increasingly packed to the brim with refuse and non-recyclable materials, and pretty...

Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai has a big problem. After just three weeks in a microgravity environment aboard the International...

NASA scientists must be breathing a sigh of relief at the moment, as the high-powered Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope...

Good news: Last year saw a dramatic increase in the number of asteroids that we know about that flew uncomfortably close to the Earth,...

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket with a top-secret payload on Sunday, but something went wrong. According to reports, the payload...

The planet Proxima-b is camera shy. In fairness, most exoplanets are - it's hardly easy to photograph any planet within our own solar...

In the search for life outside of our galaxy, astronomers are always listening for radio signals that could serve as potential...

One of the coolest things about quantum mechanics is the way that this branch of science seems to regularly contradict all commonly...

Astronaut John Young has walked on the moon, flown to the moon twice, flown the space shuttle six times, and generally had an...

NASA's Cassini probe has managed to be really helpful since it crashed into Saturn, and that trend's continuing now. This time, data...

Since a year on Mars is about 120 days longer than an Earth year, it's on a very different schedule. And that means that NASA's...

When a probe is fired off into the vastness of space, suffice to say that it doesn't reach its destination quickly. It's a long...