Space

For the past few years we've been excited by big announcements coming out of NASA, like the Deep Space Gateway and the deep-space...

Between the TESS spacecraft's newly discovered pair of exoplanets and Gaia's ability to chart the position and movement of literally...

On Thursday, the United Launch Alliance announced a partnership with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin following an...

Earlier this year, we got excited about NASA's newly announced asteroid defense plans, which included ramming potentially cataclysmic...

Just days after transmitting the first ever images taken on the surface of Ryugu, Japan's MINERVA-II1 rovers from the...

We've made a lot of discoveries about Oumuamua since it streaked into our solar system last November, but the mystery of its origins...

Well, it's been a banner two weeks for SpaceX: they've given new updates on their BFR rocket, announced the first space tourist to go...

It has been a few months since NASA lost its $400 million Opportunity Rover to a dust storm on Mars, but at least now they have a...

Despite being a small moon orbiting ten times farther from the Sun than Earth, Titan is strikingly similar to Earth: it has a stable,...

One giant landing for Japan, one batch of blurry lens flared images for mankind? In case you missed it, Japan hit a pretty big...

On the heels of Elon Musk's big reveal of the identity of the world's first space tourist to fly around the Moon, he's made another...

The JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Hayabusa2 probe arrived at the asteroid Ryugu this past June, but it's been waiting for...

If you thought the Arctic was home only to the mysterious skyglow known as STEVE, we have exciting news for you: scientists have taken...

According to estimates, there are over 7600 tons of "space junk" floating around Earth right now. It's a serious problem that needs to...

Last April the ESA Gaia satellite released its first big dump of data, which gave astronomers the brightness, distances, and...

Earlier this week, we got to see the TESS spacecraft's "first light" images – the first photos a telescope takes after being fully...

When Stephen Hawking coined the term "spaghettification" to describe what happens when you're sucked into a black hole, we doubt he...

Another day, another weird signal coming from deep in space that scientists can't really explain. NASA reports that a strange signal...

Last May, NASA's TESS spacecraft (short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) took its first test photo of the cosmos, but...

There's a lot of weird stuff floating around in space, including interstellar grease and at least one asteroid worth about $700...