Space

a yellow planet with green bodies of liquid

Homeless Mr. Spock: Real-Life Planet Vulcan Doesn’t Exist After All

Planet Vulcan was the famous homeworld of the humanoid...
Milky Way

Students Find Oldest Stars in the Universe

Undergrads from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have...
Artist’s depiction of the FLOAT lunar railway system

NASA is Building Floating Train Tracks to Use on the Moon

It sounds like sci-fi, but NASA hopes to build...
curving bright rings in space with a galactic band in the background

Plunge Into a Black Hole in NASA’s State-of-the-Art Simulation

Ever since we’ve known they exist, humans have wondered...
Running horizontally in the wheel of death.

‘Wheel of Death’ Would Let Astronauts Stay Healthy

The low gravity and increased radiation of space can...
microscope image of bacteria

Super-Bacteria Found on the International Space Station

The International Space Station seems like the least likely...
colorful geologic map

China Announces Groundbreaking Moon Atlas

Chinese scientists took a big step forward for worldwide...
A view of Pluto's 'heart'. Taken on July 13, 2015 when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface.

How Pluto Got Its Heart

Pluto’s most recognizable feature is the giant, heart-shaped area...
aerial view of what look like spiders on Mars.

The Mystery of Those ‘Spiders’ On Mars, Explained

Every spring, an unusual phenomenon occurs on Mars: What...
Shooting stars in a time lapse photo with a tree in the foreground

New Theory Gets Us One Step Closer to Understanding the Origins of Life

We know a lot about the origins of the...
The giordano bruno crater

Scientists Identify Near-Earth Asteroid’s Birthplace

When scientists discovered the asteroid Kamo'oalewa in 2016, they...
Lunar cruiser

Van Life on the Moon!

There's a long tradition of science fiction gizmos pre-dating...
Illustration of the system that revealed the existence of Gaia-BH3.

Milky Way’s Biggest Black Hole 33 Times Bigger Than Our Sun

In the career of an astronomer, it’s hard to...
Earth viewed from the moon. The earth is visible over the horizon.

How the Moon Once Turned Inside Out

There are a lot of fairytales about the Moon,...
The moon

Attempting to Preserve Radio Silence on the Far Side of the Moon

At a symposium last week, several astronomers called to...
rendering of an enclosed balloon capsule far above earth

Dine Well, Save Earth From Near-Space For $500K a Plate

Eager to get off this rock, but not in...
UFO, alien and viewfinder on a camera display to record a flying saucer in the sky over area 51.

Scientists Discover the Best Places In the U.S. to Spot a UFO

After trawling through 19 years data on reported UFO...
The Vela Supernova Remnant.

Amazingly Detailed Image of an Exploded Supernova

In the southern constellation of Vela is the remains...
Astronaut Don Pettit in a spacesuit test in 2002.

Weekend Warm-Up: Yo-Yo Tricks in Space and Other Highlights From Astronaut Don Pettit

Leave it to an astronaut to start playing with...
mapped glacier on mars

Hidden Martian Volcano Taller Than Everest Could Hold Glacier

Astronomers in Houston announced a Texas-sized discovery on the...
A hypothetical visualisation of TOI-270d created by NASA

Webb Telescope Finds Planet Covered in Boiling Water

Astronomers think they have discovered a planet covered in...
illustration of a human-like figure among ruins, with a large lava-encrusted planet in the sky

Aliens Could Be Trapped On Their Own Planets

How come we still don’t know whether or not...
An illustration of the Radcliffe Wave. The white line shows its current position, whilst the green and purple lines indicate future positions.

A Wave of Stars Washed Over Earth Millions of Years Ago

The Radcliffe Wave is a giant chain of stars...
exterior of a telescope against a starry night sky

Miracle Discovery: Three Tiny New Moons Found Orbiting Uranus, Neptune

How hard would it be to spot an object...

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