Space Science

How Pseudoscience Obscures The Real Dangers Found In Meteor Showers

The Webb Telescope Found A Planet Orbiting A Star 35 Light Years Away — Its Data Is Just Plain Odd

A NASA Psychologist Reveals 3 Mental Health Hacks Astronauts Use In Space

The International Space Station Has A Pesky Leak — Not Even NASA Has A Solid Plan For It

Aurora Alert! These 9 Northern States Could See the Aurora Borealis Tonight

The World’s First Wooden Satellite Could Be the Key To Solving the Space Debris Problem

Webb Telescope Discovered An Ancient Black Hole With A Voracious Appetite

The Debris From An Ancient Space Catastrophe Will Pelt Earth This Entire Week

The Most Powerful Telescopes Suggest the Cosmos Is Surprisingly Simple

Voyager 1 Spacecraft Just Shut Off Its Main Transmitter And Switched To A Long-Abandoned Signal

This is What Game Theory Tells Us About Messaging Aliens

This Potentially Rogue Planet Might Have Rings That Rotate Backwards — And That’s Not the Weird Part

Earth Plants Can Grow On These Alien Worlds, A New Simulation Study Suggests

New Solar Telescope Debuts Dramatic Footage of the Sun Unleashing A Huge Spray of Charged Particles

Six Asteroids — One Considered Potentially Hazardous — Flew Past Earth In Less Than 24 Hours

Rare “Black Hole Triple” Discovered! A Ghost Star Haunted Its Sibling Stars After It Perished

A Meteorite the Size of Four Mount Everests Hit Earth — It Left This Strange Aftermath

Inside the Extreme Workout Regimen of An Astronaut Stuck at the International Space Station

Comet Watch! Don’t Miss This Visitor From The Oort Cloud On Thursday

Earth Is Rapidly Heading Towards Solar Maximum — How Many Auroras Will There Be in 2025?

Scientists Just Identified A Key Location On Mars Where Life Could Thrive

An Unusually Shaped Space Object Long Puzzled Astronomers — What It Turned Out to Be Was Truly Uncanny

Nearly All Meteorites That Smash Into Earth Came From These 3 Ancient Collisions

Here's How SpaceX's "Chopsticks" Caught a Rocket In This Beautiful Engineering Feat

Will NASA’s Europa Clipper Really Find Aliens? Here’s What the Spacecraft Can and Can’t Do

Look Up! The Brightest Supermoon of 2024 Is Happening This Week — And It Comes With A Bonus Comet

Liftoff! NASA Just Successfully Launched The Largest Spacecraft to a Planet in the Agency’s 66-Year History

This Early Galaxy Grew Inside Out And Upends What We Know About Star Formation

The One Technological Issue That Is Holding Nuclear Rockets Back

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Moving In a ‘Very Unexpected’ Way, Bewildering Astronomers

Europa Clipper’s 7-Year, 1.8-Billion Mile Journey To Jupiter’s Moon Is More Intense Than You Think

A Coronal Mass Ejection Just Slammed Into Earth’s Magnetosphere — Here’s Where You’ll See the Auroras

X-Rays Kept Repeatedly Flashing Near a Supermassive Blackhole — Now Astronomers Think They Know What It Is

NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission May Launch As Early As Sunday Now

What Did NASA’s DART Mission Really Do To That Asteroid? We Are About To Find Out

Don’t Miss Your Chance To See This Extremely Elusive Meteor Shower In Tonight’s Clear Skies

The Sun’s Coronal Magnetic Field In Finally Coming Into Focus Like Never Before

Research Shows The Early Universe Had Way More Black Holes Than We Thought

Aurora Alert! The Sun Just Unleashed Several X-Class Flares — Here’s Where to Look

Please Don’t Miss Your Chance to View This Comet That Hasn’t Been Seen Since the Neanderthals

NASA Engineers Just Made This Ruthless Choice to Save Voyager 2

Astronomers Just Confirmed the Presence of Carbon Dioxide On Pluto’s Moon Charon — Where Did it Come From?

Astonishingly, Astronomers Discovered A Planet Orbiting Barnard’s Star — And There Might Be More

The Stranded Starliner Crew Finally Has a Ride Home, But They Still Can't Leave

All Systems Go: How NASA Is Pushing A New Era Of Space Exploration

This Eerily Lopsided Planet Has Weather That Technically Shouldn’t Exist

A Weirdly Large Object In Our Asteroid Belt Could Actually Be Habitable

Powerful X-Rays Could Save Earth From An Asteroid Collision, A Bizarre New Simulation Suggests

Earth Is Just Days Away From Gaining A “Mini-Moon” — Meet Asteroid 2024 PT5

Did Earth Really Once Have a Ring Around it? Inside the Wild New Theory