Space Science

How Astronauts’ Sleep Tests The Limits Of Human Space Exploration

10 Years Later, Ridley Scott's Hard-Sci Fi Movie Feels Like Fantasy

'For All Mankind' Season 5? Showrunners Talk "Epic" Story And Release Window

30 Years Ago, A Classic Sci-Fi Thriller Was The Last Gasp Of A Historic Moment

15 Years Ago, An Underrated Sci-Fi Flop Killed A Studio Before It Got Started

One Beloved ‘Star Trek’ Writer Is Making His Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Concept a Reality

NASA and Sci-Fi Legend Gentry Lee Answers Our Biggest Question About Space

The Dumbest Star Wars Trope Is Also the Most Realistic According To Science

Why Astronauts on NASA’s Artemis Mission to the Moon Need Better Boots

How The Starbase Rocket Testing Facility Is Changing Southern Texas

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Is About To Take One Small Step ... To Get Us Back To The Moon

These Are The Most Exciting Space Missions Coming In 2025

Dark Comets In Our Solar System Could Explain Earth’s Oceans — And So Much More

The Moon Might be Older Than We Previously Thought

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

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

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

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

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

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

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