Space

For many years, scientists have all but taken for granted that, statistically speaking, there must be habitable planets within stars'...

Star Trek is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the franchise is celebrating with both Star Trek Beyond and a new TV...

On October 1, 2014, NASA lost contact with the STEREO-B spacecraft during a routine test of the "hard reset" of the probe's...

Saturn's rings are one of the most iconic and instantly-recognizable visuals in our Solar System. But in the Keeler Gap, a wide...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious (and most frightening) features in our Universe. But as it turns out, they might be even...

Long Beach Comic Con is coming up next month, which means that the science-minded Space Expo is making a comeback. While all Comic...

Traveling to the moon might be even more dangerous than we thought. According to a new NASA-funded study, Apollo lunar astronauts...

While the internet can be something of a mixed bag, one of the most positive developments of the internet age is the accessibility of...

In an ancient Mayan text called the Dresden Codex, stargazers created a "Venus chart," which maps a type of "leap year" in the Mayan...

No Man's Sky has been taking the gaming world by storm lately, but as it turns out, simulated universe gaming enthusiasts have another...

Over the last few years, Kepler has discovered thousands of exoplanets, several of which are considered to be potentially...

Give credit where credit is due. The first trailer for the upcoming film Hidden Figures places the spotlight on female scientists of...

Have we been looking for signs of Martian life in the wrong place? A new study claims that meteorites may destroy all signs of life...

The "Pillars of Creation" is arguably the most famous and beloved space photo of all time. While it was beautiful and iconic when it...

You would think that NASA would keep their rare, priceless historical artifacts under lock and key, and usually they do....

NASA has just experienced a huge data dump from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the cornucopia of images reveals that...

In 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jupiter was "ignited" through a nuclear fusion process, and...

To sci-fi fans, gamma rays are best known as the driver of Hulk's origin story. But while there's no scientific proof that gamma...

On August 5, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover made a historic landing on Mars, and has had three happy and healthy years exploring the...

These days, Earth is the only known habitable planet in our Solar System, and the best candidates for potential habitability are Mars...