New Horizons beams back a new revelation about Ultima Thule
When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zoomed by the twin space rocks known collectively as Ultima Thule earlier this year, the images it sent back seemed …
When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zoomed by the twin space rocks known collectively as Ultima Thule earlier this year, the images it sent back seemed …
Each of the planets in the Solar System has a unique personality. Earth is a bustling hub of weird life forms, Jupiter is a massive …
China’s space agency has had a busy year thus far, with a successful Moon landing and rover deployment as well as some pretty neat experiments …
If there’s one story that left astronomers truly scratching their heads in 2018, it had to be the mysterious interstellar visitor known as Oumuamua. The …
NASA’s Mars InSight mission is moving along nicely, with the robotic lander preparing for many months of research that will tell scientists more about the …
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has had a busy start to 2019. After publishing a paper last year that suggested an alien ship recently flew around …
Jupiter, the mighty “king” of planets, is one of the most interesting objects in our Solar System, and not just because it’s really really big. …
It’s now been over two months since NASA’s InSight lander touched down on Mars. The landing went as smoothly as anyone could have hoped, and …
There’s no shortage of interesting things to see in our own galaxy, but astronomers love finding new galactic neighbors as well. Observing other galaxies can …
China’s Chang’e 4 mission has been a rousing success for the country’s space agency, and it’s already celebrated a number of “firsts,” including being the …
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced some of the most stunning glimpses of distant objects mankind has ever laid eyes on, but one particular image …
NASA had a big year in 2018 with several bold new missions to study various features of our Solar System, and one of the most …
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe has already had quite an eventful year. After initially arriving at the space rock known as Bennu in early December, the …
There are countless hurdles preventing mankind from openly exploring the Solar System with manned missions. The challenges that are often talked about the most relate …
NASA may be on the edge of its seat as it waits to see if its aging Opportunity rover will wake back up from its …
Just last week NASA celebrated the beginning of the Opportunity rover’s 16th year on the Martian surface, but all is not well with the six-wheeled …
NASA’s 2019 started off with a bang as its New Horizons probe zipped by the most distant object mankind has ever tried to visit, a …
Last year was a huge year for private spaceflight, with a steady stream of very successful launches and huge progress being made on more ambitious …
Our Sun is one of the reasons we’re all here today and we simply couldn’t exist without it, but it won’t be around forever. At …
It didn’t last long, but thanks to China’s Chang’e 4 lander there was a very brief period about a week ago when mankind knew that …
How do you mine for resources in a place where humans haven’t set foot for over four decades? That’s a question the European Space Agency …
Big storms here on Earth are capable of tearing down power lines and even toppling structures, but no weather pattern you’ve experienced this planet holds …
Determining the length of a single day on a planet is usually pretty easy. You just pick a landmark and wait for it to reach …
An as-of-yet unseen planet may be lurking at the very distant edge of our Solar System… or it might not exist at all. That incredibly …
Sadly, the United States (and the rest of the continent) missed out on a lunar eclipse last summer, but we will get one more chance …
NASA’s Cassini orbiter has been dead for well over a year now, but its incredible discoveries continue to trickle in as researchers pore over data …
Both SpaceX and NASA are eager to get the Dragon cargo spacecraft back to Earth now that it has fulfilled its duties in bringing much-needed …
China has plenty of reason to celebrate here in early 2019, and not just because it’s a new year. The country’s space agency, CNSA, successfully …
Snapping images of distant worlds, galaxies, and stars is something that NASA is very good at, but it’s not often that the space agency has …
Black holes are some of the most interesting features of our universe, but they’re also not very well understood. Studying distant black holes in any …