Hubble captures photo of massive nearby galaxy that is still growing
For most of us, staring up at the night sky only lets us see the brightest nearby stars, and if you’re anywhere near a city …
For most of us, staring up at the night sky only lets us see the brightest nearby stars, and if you’re anywhere near a city …
Everyone loves dogs. Okay, maybe not everyone, but lots and lots of people consider a canine companion a member of their own family, and having …
The Sun is the oldest body in our Solar System — and since everything in our system revolves around it, that obviously makes perfect sense …
Mars is the most Earth-like planet in our Solar System. It’s rocky, it’s not too big or too small, and its temperature isn’t that far …
Ever have one of those days where you just can’t focus on anything? If you’re crawling through your work day and your brain just doesn’t …
NASA stands at the very edge of an incredibly exciting time in space exploration. Mankind has discovered incredibly interesting things on Mars as well as …
Friday night offered skywatchers a fantastic reason to look up, with the longest total lunar eclipse of the century. It was a fantastic event for …
Way back in April, NASA finally managed to launch TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. TESS is the latest weapon in NASA’s arsenal that is …
NASA’s plans for sending manned missions aboard spacecraft from SpaceX and Boeing might be a bit delayed — thanks to the companies, not NASA itself …
The James Webb Space Telescope is progressing nicely. Just kidding! It’s actually a total disaster of epic proportions that has outpaced its proposed budgets so …
NASA’s Hubble might be aging rapidly but it’s still capable of taking some really, really fantastic photos. Scientists recently pointed the telescope at both Mars …
Last year, the United States got treated to an awesome skywatching event in the form of a total solar eclipse that traveled from one side …
What if you could freeze yourself for a hundred years and then wake back up in the future? Would you do it? How about 1,000 …
Identifying a criminal can be tricky for law enforcement when they’re on the hunt for a wanted person, which is why many agencies have begun …
Mankind is determined to walk on the Red Planet sooner rather than later, and when man finally sets foot on Mars it’ll truly be a …
Albert Einstein dedicated his life to the pursuit of knowledge, even if he couldn’t always prove that his theories made sense. Many of the things …
Finding an fossilized bone on accident might be a pleasant surprise for scientists, or even a kid, but when dam workers in Japan stumbled across …
The hunt for evidence of past or present life on Mars has gotten a number of boosts in recent decades, including the discovery of what …
NASA is going to send a spacecraft to the Sun. That, on its own, is pretty wild, but the fact that scientists plan on the …
Science fiction disaster movies like to imagine what life on Earth might be like in the midst of a space-borne catastrophe like an asteroid strike, …
Ferocious carnivores like the Tyrannosaurus tend to take top billing when it comes to dinosaur pop culture, but the colossal plant-eaters known as sauropods are …
Exoplanets orbiting distant stars might be our best chance of finding advanced, complex life forms, but there’s still a handful of places in our own …
In the never-ending search for life beyond Earth, astronomers tend to look far, far away, but it seems our closest neighbor may have once been …
It should go without saying that building a spacecraft isn’t easy. Building one that is capable of safely carrying a crew is harder still, which …
I have a bit of a thing for big, weird planes. The Super Guppy is one of my all-time favorite things ever, so when I …
Planetary systems aren’t just born overnight. When stars form and begin pulling debris into their orbit, some of that material eventually clumps up into fledgling …
The entire concept of McDonald’s serving salad has always seemed wrong and unnatural, but now you have a health reason to only ever eat Big …
We’re right in the heart of summer, which means getting sprayed down with a water gun sounds like a pretty nice way to spend an …
Remember that giant, planet-wide dust storm that sprung up on Mars in late May? Yeah, well, it’s still going on. Initially thought to be a …
Living in the Cretaceous period would have been pretty darn dangerous for pretty much any animal. Dinosaurs were out in full force, and massive carnivores …