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 …
Getting a single satellite into space can be difficult — as Japan recently demonstrated — so consider the logistics of India’ s plan to send a …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
If you’ve written off the crazy plot of Passengers — which sees Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence wake up from space hibernation while the rest of …
With the memory of the Schiaparelli probe’s crash still fresh in our memory, mankind remains steadfast in its pursuit of landing more hardware on Mars. …
A lunar eclipse only happens a few times per year, and it’s a pretty special event when it does. Tonight is the winter solstice, and …
Testing a vehicle meant to traverse the harsh conditions of another world is pretty difficult here on Earth, but when it comes to putting potential Mars …
The whole “humanity saves itself from a giant asteroid by blowing it up” story is a well-worn Hollywood plot line, but when it comes to …
NASA’s Cassini-Huygens orbiter has been on mission for nearly two decades and it’s still delivering glimpses of Saturn that leave us in awe. The spacecraft, …
The Apollo 17 landing site is the last place where humans hung out on the Moon, and now we’re going back. Well, not us exactly, …