Space Science

Gaming

'Revenge of the Savage Planet' Developers Break Free from Big Tech

By Trone Dowd
It Takes Two

Binary Black Holes Can Tell Us A Lot About The Universe. But First, We Have To Find Them

By Marco Ajello, Jonathan Zrake and The Conversation
Space

15 Years Later, Earth’s Most Advanced Planetary Defense System Ends In A Fiery Reentry

By Toshi Hirabayashi, Yaeji Kim and The Conversation
Science

How Pseudoscience Obscures The Real Dangers Found In Meteor Showers

By Mark Boslough and The Conversation
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

Webb Telescope Discovered An Ancient Black Hole With A Voracious Appetite

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Science

The Most Powerful Telescopes Suggest the Cosmos Is Surprisingly Simple

By Neil Turok and The Conversation
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Space

This is What Game Theory Tells Us About Messaging Aliens

By Kiona Smith
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

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

By James Wray and The Conversation
Science

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

By Amoré Elsje Nel and The Conversation
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Science

The One Technological Issue That Is Holding Nuclear Rockets Back

By Dan Kotlyar and The Conversation
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

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

By Matthew J. Hayes and The Conversation
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Space

NASA Engineers Just Made This Ruthless Choice to Save Voyager 2

By Kiona Smith
Science

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

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Science

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

By Rebecca Allen and The Conversation
Space

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

By Kiona Smith
Space

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

By Kiona Smith