homehome Home chatchat Notifications


TRAPPIST-1, the dwarf star with seven Earth-sized planets, is older than our solar system

This could be both good and bad for potential extraterrestrial life.

Hewlett Packard supercomputer to be delivered to the ISS next Monday

Time to dust off that old Skyrim dvd.

NASA will fly jets to chase the upcoming total eclipse to learn more about the sun

No, they don't want to chase away the eclipse. It's just science.

Scientists may have found the first exomoon. It looks like it's the size of Neptune

It's the best candidate for an alien moon we've encountered so far.

We really are made of star stuff: half of the atoms inside us come from intergalactic space

Aside from the romantic aspect, the study also offers an important scientific perspective.

Moon's mantle contains lots of water suggesting its interior is wet, study finds

The findings have big implications for future missions to the moon.

The Grand Finale: NASA plans to see Cassini off with a trail of fire as it crashes into Saturn

The Cassini spacecraft will get a burial place fit for such a long-trekked explorer: Saturn.

You can now take a virtual walk on the International Space Station. Here's how

It's the best place to get lost -- and trust me, you will.

NASA: We just can't afford to land humans on Mars

Oh boy...

Despite slowing solar activity, NASA spots larger-than-Earth sunspot

It seems like a freckle, but this freckle is larger than the Earth.

NASA releases dazzling images of Jupiter's Red Spot, makes them open for citizen scientists

It's awesome, it's very useful, and it's open for everyone to use.

Chemical compounds found in Martian soil suggest the planet's surface is highly toxic

The prospect of finding life on Mars is getting bleaker.

Russian space agency finally admits it's afraid of SpaceX and reveals how it plans to fight back

Can the Russians take on SpaceX?

This video ISS astronauts shot of the norther lights is just the thing to brighten up your day

Nature, being ridiculously cool since forever.

Man who thinks "God created heavens and Earth" to oversee US space program

"God created the heavens and the earth," he says.

Corrected satellite data shows 2.4 times faster warming than previously indicated

It also debunks one of climate deniers most cited argument.

Space Race 2.0: Japan wants to put a man on the Moon by 2030

The new space race seems to be shaping up in Asia.

NASA wants to celebrate its 100-year-anniversary -- with you!

Happy bday, NASA!

Gecko-inspired 'Velcro' could help cleanup our growing space junk problem

Inspired by nature, scientists tackle a sticky problem.

Orbiting supermassive black holes confirmed by astronomers for the time

This is one slow dance.

Curiosity caught on camera climbing Martian mountain by orbiting spacecraft

Can you make out Curiosity from this satellite photo?

Elon Musk shares his view of Mars colonization: one million people living in a self sustainable city

Shoot for the stars and you might just land on Mars.

Chinese satellite beams entangled particles over 1,200km away, sets the stage for unhackable quantum network

This is the beginning of the quantum internet.

The sun likely has a lost twin called 'Nemesis', as do most stars like it

It sounds like the plot of a bad movie -- but it's just science.

Jupiter is likely the oldest planet in the solar system

This fatty likely had a great influence on how other later planets formed in the early solar system, including Earth.

Jupiter now officially has 69 moons. There are likely more to be confirmed

The massive gas giant likely adopted the cosmic bodies when they came too close to Jupiter's gravitational pull.

IKEA is already preparing to design Mars furniture

IKEA prepares for outer space.

Scientists develop largest simulation of the Universe to find dark matter

It's an impressive achievement.

ISS astronauts will bake the first crumb-free, space bread in 2018

One small step for bread, one giant leap for mankind.

After record number of applications, NASA announces the future generation of astronauts

Take a good look at these people. A few years from now, they will be conducting research off the Earth and in deep space.

NASA discovers unusual deep pit on Mars' South Pole

NASA doesn't know yet what could have caused it.

Another Einstein predication is confirmed by scientists: gravitational lensing measures star's mass for the 1st time

Einstein -- right again!

Citizen scientists discover new cold star close to our solar system

In this day and age, everyone can be a scientist.

Scorching exoplanet is hotter than most stars. It's so hot it might even leave a trail of atomic gas like a comet

That's one hot tomato!

Curiosity rover finds that its landing crater on Mars could have been habitable for 700 million years

We don't know whether Mars held life... but there's certainly a lot of potential.

Gravitational waves observed for the third time, opening new, unexplored paths in physics

The thrilling discovery is confirmed.

Japan launches satellite to generate its own, better GPS

Positioning errors will be decreased by a factor of 100.

Nothing can escape a black hole's clutch -- and this proves Einstein's Theory of Relativity (again)

Ready to sink your teeth into some black holes?

Halos on Mars suggest the red planet may have been hospitable for far long longer than thought

Life had more time to appear or even thrive on Mars than we imagined.

For the first time ever, we've seen a black hole being silently born -- no supernova required

Why blow up when you can mass up?

Latest results from Juno mission reveal massive surprises about Jupiter

Think you know Jupiter? Think again!

Mouse space sperm could pave a new era of space exploration

Space sperm to the rescue!

Ellen Ochoa and Michael Foale join the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame

The best of the best.

Physicists propose new, donut-shaped planetary body: the synestia

Homer Simpson would have been impressed. D'oh!

Terraforming Mars: what it is and why we'd do something this crazy

Two planets are better than one. Here's everything you need to know about Mars terraformation.

We've (unknowingly) created a radiation shield around the Earth using radios

Can your Internet landline do this? No.

This 18-year-old Indian designed the world's lightest satellite. NASA will launch it into space soon

Be more like him.

It used to rain so hard on Mars it shaped the planet's geology

A first of its kind study found rain on Mars was quite abundant.

Puffy exoplanet is as dense as styrofoam. The unusual find could help find habitable alien planets

An extraordinarily inflated planet could prove very lucrative in our quest to find other habitable planets.

China plans to have an asteroid mining base up and running "in the near future"

Epic loot.

1 27 28 29 30 31 61