Space

Since it was first spotted around a year ago, our solar system's first interstellar asteroid has been one of the most talked about...

Is a crater still a crater if it has been filled with ice? According to NASA, the answer is yes, and a massive one has been discovered...

In a new paper published in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers have shared that there may be a super-Earth...

Sunspots and solar radiation are a part of life, whether we're aware of them or not. Like the changing of the seasons, the Sun goes...

Aside from the US and China, Russia has established itself as one of the biggest players in the new space race, despite some recent...

In a statement on Tuesday, NASA announced that its Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport...

In a quarter century, humans will inhabit two planets in our solar system. That bold prediction was made by NASA officials on Tuesday...

Over the past year or so, different scientific studies have argued that so-called 'rogue planets' (ie, planets without a star to...

A 'dark matter hurricane' sounds like something out of a comic book, but it's nevertheless real (as far as we know--dark matter is a...

This past Friday, a British Airways pilot radioed in to air traffic control at Ireland's Shannon Airport to inquire about something...

After decades of NASA missions with names like "Apollo" and "Gemini," it's refreshing to see a space mission (or at least a rocket...

Just before Halloween, NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its 16th close flyby of Jupiter, snapping images just 4,400 miles above the...

Few things are more powerful, cataclysmic, or vast than a merger between supermassive black holes, but galactic mergers are one of...

If there are galactic archaeologists, what about stellar homicide detectives? Scientists recently spotted a star called CPD 64°2731...

Is it good or bad things that come in threes? We'll find out soon enough: according to data from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object...

NASA has already announced plans to establish a permanent base on the Moon (even if the Mars Society isn't too happy with them), but...

Guys, we've been going about it all wrong. Despite decades of sending signals, probes, and satellites into space in search of...

Science Alert reports a team of astronomers have discovered a little star in the Milky Way Galaxy believed to be around 13.5 billion...

Just when we thought the question was settled for good, here we are again: discussing whether the tumbling, cigar-shaped object known...

If you've ever stood in front of a 4K television at your local electronics store, or if you're lucky enough to own one, then you know...