NASA’s newly-launched TESS — that stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite in case you were wondering — is an incredibly powerful piece of hardware. It …
Lots of us grew up learning that there were nine planets in the Solar System. In the early 2000s we were told a different story, …
If we’re going to find extraterrestrial life inside of our own Solar System there’s only a handful of places where scientists believe we might find …
By now, SpaceX landing one of its Falcon 9 rockets (or even landing two, for that matter) is barely worthy of a headline. But late …
Long before our Sun formed it was nothing more than a bunch of material floating listlessly in a large cloud of gas, dust, and debris. …
The never-ending search for extraterrestrial life is about to get a big boost thanks to a new research effort from the Breakthrough Listen project. Breakthrough …
When Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted late last week it wasn’t exactly the kind of massive, explosive event that you see in disaster movies starring Pierce …
You don’t need me to tell you that the Sun is pretty important to all of us. Without it, we wouldn’t be here, but it …
World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking dedicated his life to the pursuit of knowledge, and his work will live on for quite some time. The famous thinker passed …
Normally when NASA publishes exciting new discoveries it’s thanks to data that just arrived from one of its many pieces of high-tech space hardware. NASA’s …
SpaceX has dominated headlines so far in 2018 thanks to the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy and numerous Falcon 9 missions, but it’s not …
The blurry, confusing image you see above might not seem all that interesting at first glance, but it’s actually an incredible glimpse into the early …
The Earth is a very, very wet place. The surface is largely covered with liquid water, but scientists have long debated exactly how so much …
You might think of our Solar System as a pretty special place — and considering it’s produced the only known example of life, that’s probably …
Uranus isn’t the most popular place in the Solar System. It’s a cold, harsh world, and it hasn’t been studied nearly as much as some …
It’s been a little while since skywatching enthusiasts had something to get excited about. Considering how jam-packed with celestial eye candy 2017 was, it’s been …
Mankind has managed to learn a lot about our Solar System and the planets that reside in it simply by gazing into the night sky, …
We sometimes think of the Sun as a pretty special star, but only because of the fact that Earth happens to be in the perfect …
SpaceX’s launch of NASA’s exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite may have been delayed, but that’s not stopping scientists from using the hardware they already have to make …
Staying at a fancy hotel is always a fun experience, but if you’ve exhausted every five-star hotel on the face of the Earth you could …
Back on March 30th, SpaceX sent yet another of its Falcon 9 rockets skyward, delivering a payload of 10 satellites into orbit for communications company …
We know more about Mars than any other planet besides Earth, and that’s largely thanks to our ability to send high-tech equipment to its surface. …
Scientists searching the sky for supernova explosions recently got something they truly didn’t expect. Hoping to observe the long, sustained pulses of light associated with …
In attempting to explain how the universe works, scientists have largely settled on the existence of a mysterious type of matter known simply as “dark …
Expedition 55 of the International Space Station is finally underway after a trio of crew members reached the spacecraft and were welcomed by their fellow …
These days we only really see stars in two contexts: our Sun, which is extremely close and holds us in its gravitational grip, and distant …
Earth’s nearest neighbor, the Moon, is a pretty reliable partner. As far as scientists know, the Moon originated during or shortly after the formation of …
Late last year scientists spotted a totally unexpected visitor speeding its way through our Solar System. A long, cigar-shaped object had flown through our little …
Thanks to the ceaseless march of technology, agencies like NASA and other scientific bodies from around the world have been able to teach us a …
It was just days ago that a team of scientists from NASA and the National Nuclear Security Administration spoke at length about the potential to …
