Space

Since its discovery by Robert Weryk back in October of 2017, the cannoli-shaped asteroid named ʻOumuamua has baffled the...

They may be 250 miles from their respective homes on Earth, but that doesn't mean that the astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the...

Typically, when a nation's space agency decides on a major mission into any part of space, they make sure that the world knows about...

We've all seen images taken of the surface of Mars over the past handful of years. Each photo shows a lot of dust and a lot of sepia...

For the sake of all living things on this planet, it would be best if asteroids never entered Earth's atmosphere at all. Since there...

When you think of a friendly, sphere-shaped companion robot for space travel, we wouldn't blame you for imagining something like BB-8...

At approximately 12:00 pm EST NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft will initiate its final descent on Bennu, coming within twelve miles of...

With all the recent excitement about colonizing the Moon and visiting Mars, Virgin Galactic's decade-plus experiment with sub-orbital...

It looks like Elon Musk has to put down the joint if he ever wants to send a human into space... At least while the cameras are...

Are you an Emirati undergraduate getting a degree in science or engineering? Are you fascinated with the modern space race to Mars?...

Having reached one major milestone this week with the landing of InSight on Mars, NASA is looking forward to another delicate and...

Get hyped, because today's the day NASA's announcing the next batch of commercial projects that have been accepted for liftoff!...

The Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey is so iconic that you probably know some of the major plot points even if you...

Besides increasingly rare interactions with old-school thermometers, most people's exposure to the chemical element mercury starts and...

When most people imagine disasters wiping out astronauts in space, it usually looks like Alien or Apollo 13. According to a new...

Despite millions of light-years between us and most exoplanets, we're not only getting better at spotting them, we're now able to...

After shooting dozens of satellites into space, landing astronauts on the Moon, and landing not one, but two rovers on the Red...

When you're talking about large space rocks hurdling towards your home, how much of a percentage does it take before you start to...

It's a mystery that began back in the 1970s when the first images of Phobos were taken—what caused those streaks in the surface of...

If you have to go out, go out with a bang! In a new study published in the journal Nature, astronomers share the discovery of a...