Space

NASA's New Horizons space probe is currently flying through the farthest outskirts of our solar system, having recently left a close...

We like to think we know a lot about space. We can identify the chemical composition of an exoplanet's atmosphere from light-years...

Life needs a couple basic things: Reasonable temperatures, a lack of stellar radiation, and liquid water.If Proxima Centauri b is any...

Increasingly, scientists are becoming convinced that life on Earth must have started in space.The prevailing theory, which is gaining...

Newly-released video of an encounter between U.S. Navy pilots and an Unidentified Flying Object in 2015 is raising eyebrows and...

Out of the many tasks which involve the Hubble Space Telescope, one in particular involved an "Indiana Jones-type quest" (NASA's...

Research into planets that form around cooler dwarf stars has brought light some intriguing new discoveries that could help scientists...

Some people like to unwind by bingewatching Netflix. Some people like to curl up with a good book. But now, when someone asks you...

For as long as mankind has stared up at the night's sky, one object has held our fascination more than any other.The Earth's moon is a...

This is probably not the news you wanted to start your week with, but they say that knowledge is power, so consider this our attempt...

SpaceX has made its Mars aspirations very clear over the past couple years, and they appear to be on track to meet those aspirations...

Some of the flashiest and most gigantic events we've seen out in space involve galaxies colliding into each other. A galactic merger...

It's a tale as old as time: a Silicon Valley startup is denied permission by the government to launch satellites, so the...

Have you ever wanted to stand on the surface of Saturn and breathe a deep lungful of alien air?If so, you're going to have a bad time,...

As has been well documented, humanity is weirdly paranoid about the threat of giant deadly asteroids. Sure, life on Earth was almost...

NASA's "InSight" Mars mission is coming up fast, and the space agency hopes to launch an advanced new lander to the Red Planet this...

Space is an important frontier for China. Long before the current boom of commercial interest in space, China was focusing on using...

It's no secret humanity has a littering problem, nor is it a particularly recent development, but the problem is growing larger as we...

NASA's Deep Space Gateway is finally taking shape--we already have an idea what it will look like, but only now are we starting to...

Ever since the Juno space probe arrived at Jupiter in 2016, we've been learning some absolutely fascinating things about the distant...