NASA just released 3D models and new photos of a massive supernova
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the discovery of massive supernova called SN 1987A, NASA pointed the lens of the Hubble Space Telescope in its direction …
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SpaceX will fly two very rich passengers around the Moon next year
At a press conference today, prospective fallout shelter owner Elon Musk told reporters that SpaceX, Musk’s solar space travel company, will be sending a pair …
Numerous ‘Earth-sized’ exoplanets discovered orbiting a nearby star
At a press conference today, a Dutch-led international research team has announced the discovery of several Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting a star 40 light-years away. Three of …
Watch live as NASA reveals a new exoplanet discovery at 1PM
NASA’s been finding all kind of cool things out in the depths of space recently, but today the agency is poised to announce something big. …
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship just had to abort its supply run mission
SpaceX made headlines earlier this week when its Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched and then performed a perfect vertical landing. Today’s SpaceX news isn’t nearly …
Watch 104 individual satellites achieve orbit and shatter a world record
Earlier this week we told you about India’s mission to deploy an absurd number of satellites from a single launch vehicle. Thankfully, the mission went …
Astronomers just found a piping hot ‘Super Earth’
It wasn’t that long ago that finding exoplanets — that is, worlds that exist outside of our own solar system — was a rare occurrence. …
104 new satellites are launching today to map every inch of your world
Getting a single satellite into space can be difficult — as Japan recently demonstrated — so consider the logistics of India’ s plan to send a …
Astronomers open massive database of stars to the public
We already know that space is awesome, but if you’re tired of the bright minds from places like MIT and NASA having all the fun, …
NASA reminds us that space is gorgeous with breathtaking new Hubble snapshot
While you were sitting in your office this morning, sipping your half-milk soy latte, space was out there being awesome. It was there when you …
There are three awesome things happening in the sky tonight
Usually a night with a comet or a lunar eclipse is reason enough to peel yourself away from the couch for a bit to gaze …
This supermassive black hole slowly consumed a gigantic star for a full decade
Black holes are scary things. They suck in everything within their reach, and there’s no escaping their pull, even for something as massive as a …
Feast your eyes on this gorgeous Hubble photo of a star dying
Just like us, stars are born, live, and die, and while plenty of sci-fi movies have taken artistic liberties with their own depictions of stars dying, …
Federal agents just discovered a major flaw in SpaceX’s rockets
When you become one of the leading private space flight companies on the planet you can bet that the government is going to have a …
Scientists just discovered water on a planet you’ve never even heard of
For the past couple of decades or so, humanity has been scraping in the dust and dirt on Mars for a number of different scientific …
Bus-sized asteroid will whiz by Earth today, coming closer than the Moon
Earth-ending apocalypse movies always start with sky-gazers spotting an astroid that nobody knew about until it was too late. If the speedy space rock called …
Japan’s high-tech space junk collector might already be broken
Flying into space is inherently dangerous, but mankind has gradually made it even more hazardous by filling Earth’s orbit with millions of pieces of random …
Check out NASA’s awesome new space suits, designed by Boeing
Whenever you see a sci-fi movie set on some futuristic space barge or alien world, the astronauts always look so much cooler than anything that …
Something in space is killing off entire galaxies
When we think about the survival of the human race we often focus on making sure our planet stays alive and habitable, but out there in …
There’s something weird happening on Venus
Mars may be the focus of many current space exploration efforts, but scientists studying Venus have just discovered something very strange: a massive structure that …
Japanese rocket suffers catastrophic failure
Japan’s ambitious plan to launch a pint-sized rocket equipped with a satellite has come to an abrupt end after the rocket suffered a communication failure …
Astronomers just discovered a ‘Hot Jupiter,’ and it’s absolutely massive
Jupiter is the undisputed big dog in our solar system. It’s so huge that even if you took all the other planets in our solar …
Our solar system might have a ninth planet, and researchers have an idea of where it came from
We all grew up learning that our sun has eight friends: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Now, researchers who believe that …
There will soon be a new bright spot in our night sky
A college professor and his students might be at the cusp of accurately predicting a change in our night sky. Larry Molnar of Calvin College, …
Scientists think they might finally know where the Moon came from
Humanity has existed for a couple hundred thousand years, or so scientists believe, with civilization thought to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 to …
There are strange radio waves hitting Earth from space, and scientists just found the source
A strange burst of radio waves that has puzzled researchers for years has finally been traced to its source, answering one question but generating many, many …
China is going to beat the United States back to the Moon
When China’s Chang’e 3 mission successfully landed a rover on the Moon in 2013 it was the first time a spacecraft had achieved a soft …
Humanity is actually about to start sending messages to aliens
If your most feared end-of-days scenario involves an alien race finding Earth, raiding it for its natural resources, and then doing away with humanity just …
Hubble Telescope captures stunning new view of stars being born
There’s lots of awesome sights out there in the universe that we never get to see from our vantage point here on Earth, but thanks …
Scientists just discovered a huge cluster of galaxies hidden in Earth’s backyard
A team of astronomers from several corners of the globe just discovered a massive collection of galaxies that they didn’t even know was there. That wouldn’t …
