Space

In a rather "War is Peace" style of naming, the United States' "LGM-118 Peacekeeper" was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)...

Anyone who's ever attempted to build a LEGO set can attest that sometimes, even with detailed instructions, creating an accurate model...

There is a theory, which claims that deep at the heart of our galaxy, there exist tens of thousands of small black holes, which all...

It turns out that the recipe for a habitable, Earth-like planet is lot more complicated than we ever imagined: You need stable...

In the search for life beyond our planet, things are a little more complicated than just launching ourselves into space, receiving a...

In the world of astronomy, spotting a change in brightness (usually from a star) can be the key to identifying a new planet or set off...

There are a couple tenets astronomers and cosmologists live by: light sets the speed limit for the universe, nothing can escape a...

As the world gears up for the new space race, it's easy to forget that space isn't the virgin soil it used to be--thanks to decades of...

After weeks of speculation, Tiangong-1 — the falling space station which could crash nearly anywhere in the world — made its...

Astronomers can spot supernovas from a galaxy away (even quick ones), but observing individual stars is much harder. In the cosmic...

Rovers are so 20th century, and drones are so last year--NASA is looking to the future of space exploration and has a plan for...

When things are going well, we typically dispose of satellites that need to be taken out of orbit by landing them as far away from...

We're about to see a lot more Mars missions in the next few years, as space agencies and companies around the world prepare for the...

Mars may be named after the Roman god of war, but Venus is a much more hostile planet, with high pressures and an average surface...

You would think that as a falling satellite came closer and closer to Earth's atmosphere, we would be able to pinpoint exactly where...

Mars doesn't experience earthquakes (or rather, "marsquakes") in the same way Earth does, because Mars doesn't have appear to have...

Despite how little we know about dark matter, we can tell when it's there, from the way it impacts galaxies and causes strange...

There's nothing we can do to stop Tiangong-1, China's first space satellite, from falling out of orbit and crashing through the...

Mercury is special among the planets in our solar system for a number of reasons (not least because Han Solo has been spotted frozen...

Once it's finally in space, the James Webb Space Telescope will be one of the most powerful telescopes in NASA's arsenal. Which is...