Space

As humanity watches Earth's major powers prepare to colonize the Solar System, most of the questions are practical--how will we...

Scientists have searched high and low on this planet for materials left over from the creation of our solar system to no avail. Things...

One thing that the Hubble Space Telescope is very good at is tracking down galactic collisions. Regardless of how common it is for...

As Neil DeGrasse Tyson is fond of saying, "We are all stardust." Zooming out a bit, however, reveals that almost everything is...

The lifestyles of the rich and famous continue to get more and more extravagant as people invent new ways to spend money, but flexing...

Everyone knows about the first time humans landed on the Moon, and they can certainly quote Neil Armstrong's famous "One small step...

You've likely seen the famous Hubble telescope photo of the Pillars of Creation — the long trunks of a nebula which resemble the...

NASA's Opportunity rover has spent well over 5,000 days on Mars, and has survived well past its initial 90 day mission and outlived...

The center of a galaxy tends to be the most interesting part, not least because that's often where a supermassive black hole is...

While we're not expecting to travel to Earth-like planets anytime soon, scientists are still preoccupied with finding them, if only to...

The Juno probe has been orbiting around Jupiter since 2016, and has allowed us to see the gas giant from a whole lot of new angles...

Regardless of your vantage point during a rocket launch, it's impossible to see the whole thing. If you're on the ground then you...

Some of the biggest "facts" we take for granted are all wrong. Here's the truth... Once and for all.

Three rocky, Earth-like exoplanets have been discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope's K2 mission.

Earlier this week, NASA said they had an announcement regarding Mars which they planned to share on Thursday.And now we know what...

Ever since astronomers realized that the closest Earth-like exoplanet, Proxima b, is probably an irradiated hellscape, excitement...

Despite its enormous size and gaseous composition being completely alien to Earth, at least Jupiter's lightning strikes look familiar...

Sometimes it's the steps that look insignificant at first that turn out to be the most instrumental. Such is the case with NASA's new...

When astronomers spotted strange patterns of dimming and brightening from KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, none of the...

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