Space

Last night, SpaceX launched the first rocket of 2020 – and surpassed Planet Labs to become the largest private satellite operation,...

NASA astronomers combined forces with visualization specialists to create a three-dimensional video of what it looks like deep inside...

heic2002 — Photo Release To kickstart the 30th anniversary year of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble has imaged a...

2019 was an interesting year for Outer Places, mostly because it was an interesting year for the rest of the world. We were – and...

This year marks the 30-year anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope launch. To celebrate the occasion, ESA/Hubble released...

If you want to observe the Earth's latest orbit but the thought of standing in a throng of people wearing disposable diapers waiting...

One of the brightest stars in our sky is the dimmest it has been in 100 years, according to a report in National Geographic. The...

When NASA astronaut Ron Garan attached himself to a robotic arm that swept him in an arc over the International Space Station, giving...

eso1921 — Science Release Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have observed reservoirs of cool gas around some of the...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. But a new theoretical abstract asks us to consider whether binary black...

Scientists using data from NASA’s NICER telescope onboard the ISS have created the first-ever surface map of a pulsar, according to...

ESO Photo ReleaseESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has observed the central part of the Milky Way with spectacular resolution and...

There are a few videos that, like certain books or essays, I like to return to every so often as they have the power to initiate a...

The NASA Juno spacecraft was almost blotted out forever when a mission-ending eclipse threatened to cut off its power supply, and the...

NASA scientists have published a “treasure map” of water ice on Mars – and some of it lies just an inch below the surface,...

Scientists working together at the University of Cambridge have released the results from what is the largest-scale study of...

The south pole of Enceladus – one of Saturn’s moons – is strangely unmarked by impact craters from passing meteors and...

Somehow, a planet survived the devastating explosion of a star's death, and the scorching white dwarf star that remains is now...

The second interstellar visitor to our solar system is closing in on the Sun, according to reports from Universe Today. Comet...

The standard features of a planetary system include two things that we know of: 1. A host star, and 2. Planets. That’s it. The...