Space

Earlier this year, NASA announced that the next stop for the New Horizons spacecraft after Pluto would be Ultima Thule, a distant...

Being an astronaut (or cosmonaut) is still considered one of the coolest jobs ever to kids of all ages, but there may be a negative...

When we're not narrowly avoiding collisions with them or planning to blow them up with nuclear weapons, scientists are busy studying...

Between 4,200 and 5,500 light years away from Earth in the constellation Scorpius lies a nebula with a familiar shape for those who...

After checking to make sure that it is plugged in and receiving power, one of the first steps in electronics troubleshooting is to...

Disappointing news for all the fans of Starship Troopers, Doom, and Warhammer: according to a new, 13-page document created by...

The naming of constellations is serious business. The ones you're probably most familiar with like the Big Dipper, Sagittarius, and...

When you're watching an Earth-sized mass hurtle into a supermassive black hole a billion light-years away, it's easy to forget...

They're not exactly grabbing for three-eyed alien toys at Pizza Planet, but engineers at NASA are using the same arcade game from...

There was a time when physics experiments could be carried out with two weighted balls and a tower in Pisa (although Galileo's famous...

For a space agency that just experienced one of the biggest spacecraft failures in recent memory, Russia's Roscosmos is playing it...

Using the VIMOS instrument (VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph) on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, an international team of...

Some lucky astronauts and a handful of very rich people will soon be traveling into space and around the moon, but what about the rest...

It must be hard to be an astronomer or astrophysicist--every week, a new discovery (like Swift J0243.6+6124) seems to challenge their...

We may think of space as a vast, untouched frontier, but the truth is that there's already about 18 million pounds of junk floating...

It has not been a good few weeks for NASA. With the Hubble Space Telescope still asleep and adrift in safe mode due to instrument...

Somewhere in the world, there is a big calendar on which someone has been closely tracking the space tourism race. With a very bold...

At around 4:40 AM today, two astronauts set out to the ISS aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. Less than two minutes into that flight,...

Astrobiology has always been at the fringes of NASA's science programs, and the last time it tried to break into the big-time with the...

If you're not rich enough to buy a trip around the Moon with SpaceX (like Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa), the next best thing is...