Space

It's long been established that, deep at the heart of our constantly swirling galaxy, there exists a fantastically powerful...

As part of his ongoing mission to boldly go where no vacation provider has gone before, Elon Musk has taken another step towards...

Not to scare you, but if anything were to take out our means of worldwide communication, like, say, an enormous solar flare, we'd all...

The problem with space is that it's really, really big. There's a lot of dead space in between all the interesting bits, and that...

Ever since Apollo 13 hit theaters in 1995, everyone remembers the scene where NASA staff were able to cobble together a square CO2...

Like him or tolerate him, William Shatner is one of the biggest voices in science fiction culture. Playing Captain Kirk on the...

Back in May, the US Air Force's covert unmanned spaceship, the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, returned to Earth after 718 consecutive...

Syfy's The Expanse has won praise from fans and critics for being one of the most scientifically rigorous sci-fi shows on TV, to the...

From this far away, it's eay to look up at the sun and think of it as merely a big ball of static light, kind of like a lamp or a...

For the most part, the only star that astronomers have gotten a detailed look at is our own Sun (even if they can't look directly at...

When we think of probes on the surfaces of alien worlds, our minds often conjure images of either the Mars Curiosity rover or that...

Batten down the hatches and brace for really bad news--something big is on the way, and it's not going to end well. Hurricane Harvey,...

Last year's discovery of gravitational waves rocked the field of astronomy, and since then, researchers have pored over the strange...

Let's do some quick math here. Princeton and Yale's acceptance rate is about 6-7%, and Harvard's acceptance rate is around 5%. NASA's...

Elon Musk has shared a first official look at the new spacesuits that customers aboard his commercial space tourism service, SpaceX,...

Space flight is a difficult business. On the one hand, a lot of tools and resources are needed for a successful mission that have to...

Some people get to have all the fun.Researchers at the SLAC Laboratory at Stanford have recently been attempting to recreate the...

The day has finally come. August 21st, 2017, the great American total solar eclipse. Millions across the country are flocking to bear...

There are tons of reasons why we can't live on Mars just yet, even ignoring the unfinished challenge of actually moving some people...

If you don't know XPrize, bookmark them--they're the ones who ran the worldwide contest to create a functioning analogue to Star...