NASA’s Voyager 2 is about to break out of the Solar System
NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft have been cruising through space since 1977. For the past forty years or so they’ve been speeding along …
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There’s something wrong with the Hubble Space Telescope
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most reliable pieces of hardware ever launched into Earth orbit. It’s been peering into the depths of …
Artist envisions what a Martian mini-house might look like
Mankind isn’t ready to go to Mars… at least not yet. Space agencies and scientific groups from around the world are working hard towards the …
Saturn’s iconic rings are raining thousands of pounds of material onto the planet every second
Some people love when it rains, but even the most devoted storm-lovers here on Earth would have a hard time dealing with the conditions on …
Traveling to Mars could give you gut cancer, and that’s not good
Getting a manned mission safely to Mars would be the greatest space-age accomplishment of all time. Humans have never visited another planet, and while we’ve …
Another Chinese space lab is going to fall back to Earth, but this time it’s under control
Remember back in April when China’s Tiangong-1 space station unceremoniously fell out of the sky, burned up in the atmosphere and rained a bit of …
The tiny Mars moon Phobos might be the byproduct of a massive collision
Mars is a pretty important place these days, what with space agencies around the world doing their best to get there and SpaceX suggesting it’ll …
Elon Musk shows off concept for SpaceX Mars base, says it could be underway by 2028
Never let it be said that Elon Musk isn’t one heck of an optimist. The SpaceX boss has been doing a whole lot of forecasting …
NASA sent a balloon to observe ‘electric’ blue clouds, and they sure are pretty
We’re used to NASA dropping gorgeous photos of far-off objects in space, but its most recent observations are much closer to home. In a new …
Japanese asteroid probe sends hopping rovers down to space rock’s surface
At the end of August, Japanese space agency JAXA announced when it would attempt to deploy a pair of very special rovers to the surface …
Watch a big net snag a piece of space junk in first-ever test of new cleanup system
Mankind has made a real mess of planet Earth. Our trash is just about everywhere, from city streets to the most remote areas of the …
Neil deGrasse Tyson says smoking weed in space is a recipe for disaster
Neil deGrasse Tyson is probably the most recognizable scientists alive today, and he also happens to have some pretty strong opinions on a variety of …
The closest exoplanet to Earth might have a vast ocean, and even life
Peering at distant planets is a tricky business for astronomers. There’s plenty that they can assume about planets based on what they look like from …
SpaceX plans to reveal the identity of its first Moon trip passenger on Monday
SpaceX has long been bullish on the idea of selling seats on its spacecraft to private citizens who are willing to pony up enough cash …
Stephen Colbert perfectly skewers NASA’s new plan to embrace advertising
NASA has a pretty big problem on its hands. The group wants to do amazing new things, like travel to Mars, but those things cost …
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station got a scary look at Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Florence continues its march towards the East Coast of the United States today, and astronauts aboard the International Space Station got a birds-eye view …
Scientists hear dozens of mysterious radio signals beaming through space
Gazing into space with a high-powered telescope can produce some pretty impressive findings. Scientists regularly discover the presence of far-off worlds by staring at distant …
Hubble spies distant, dusty galaxy
NASA might still be waiting for its next-generation planet spotting telescope to get off the ground, but the aging Hubble is still doing a fine …
Astronomers spot new ultra-hot exoplanet twice the size of Earth
When astronomers search for exoplanets, the real goal is finding a distant world that might be within what scientists believe is the habitable zone. Those …
Astrophysicist scores $3 million prize over four decades after being snubbed for a Nobel
Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell doesn’t need to prove anything to anyone. Her career as a scientist and now a professor sort of speaks for itself, …
NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope wakes up once again to begin probing the depths of space
All eyes these days may be on NASA’s shiny new exoplanet hunter TESS, but the group’s Kepler space telescope still has some life left in …
There’s another weird hexagon forming on Saturn, and astronomers are scratching their heads
Saturn sure has a thing for peculiar shapes! Astronomers have known for some time that Saturn’s north pole has developed a very odd hexagonal shape. …
Japan is about to launch a mini space elevator that could be a sign of things to come
Getting into space can be a tricky thing. Right now, the hardware that can get you there — a rocket — is complex, pricey, and …
Hubble captures mysterious nebula in gorgeous new image
You might think that with so many telescopes at its disposal NASA and the astronomy community at large would have plenty of time to gaze …
It might be another 1,000 years before we can see the elusive ‘Planet Nine’
“Planet Nine,” the mythical hidden planet that may or may not be lurking in the very distant reaches of our Solar System, continues to avoid …
Saturn’s auroras sure do look pretty
Here on Earth, auroras are pretty neat sight to see. The phenomenon, commonly called the “Northern Lights,” is fairly well understood by scientists. They occur …
A big fake Moon is slowly making its way around the Earth
You probably don’t spare much thought for the Moon. I mean it’s there in the night sky, being all bright and cool and whatnot, but …
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station had to plug this hole with their thumb
Yesterday, Russian space organization Roscosmos and the European Space Agency broke the news that the International Space Station had sprung a leak. That’s a pretty …
Scientists think black holes could bring dead stars back to life as ‘zombies’
What happens when a star dies? When most stars exhaust their bountiful supply of energy they enter a state where they become white dwarfs. These …
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just spotted its next target, more than 100 million miles away
NASA’s New Horizons mission is a pretty interesting one. Rather than heading to one specific location, as many other spacecraft do, the New Horizons craft …
