The bizarre interstellar visitor that whizzed through our Solar System late last year stunned scientists the world over. The object, named Oumuamua snuck up out…
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Scientists continue to peer deeper into the galaxy in the search for exoplanets that may host alien life, but our best chance of finding extraterrestrial…
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Back in 2014, Japan's space program JAXA launched an asteroid probe that had a long journey ahead of it. The spacecraft, called Hayabusa 2, spent…
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Decades of science fiction movies, tv shows, and video games have led us to believe that when we spot another planet that has life we're…
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Man, Jupiter sure is weird. The gas giant is one of the most-photographed objects in our Solar System thanks to its mesmerizing, swirling cloud tops,…
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Revell is one of the most well-known and respected hobbyist brands on the planet. The company has been in business for three-quarters of a century,…
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It was just last week that NASA publicly revealed its plans to enhance its tracking and detection systems for smaller near-Earth objects, and now a…
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What is it with these private spaceflight companies always jumping the gun? SpaceX has become notorious for delaying and pushing back previously-stated target dates —…
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Thanks to the steady stream of new asteroid discoveries that rolls out of NASA and other skywatching groups around the world you might think that…
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An incredibly bizarre feature on Mars which conspiracy theorists believe is clear evidence of alien life is actually just a really, really weird rock formation,…
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It's widely known that the next frontier for manned space flight is Mars. It's our closest planetary neighbor that actually makes sense to visit, and…
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At today's meeting of the National Space Council, President Trump directed the Pentagon and Defense Department to "immediately begin the process" of establishing a "space…
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By now you've surely heard about the massive dust storm currently raging on Mars. Our planetary neighbor is experiencing a pretty serious bout of cloudy…
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The Sun is big. By volume, the Sun could fit roughly 1.3 million Earths inside of it, but new research suggests that our friendly star…
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Searching for extraterrestrial civilizations isn't easy or we'd probably have already found a few. Traveling to other star systems in search of aliens would obviously…
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Humanity is going to have to leave Earth eventually. We've already messed up our planet pretty badly, and even if we don't push the Earth…
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Jupiter is a massive, swirling mass of towering storm clouds, and anyone who lives on Earth knows that storms are fantastic at producing lightning. When…
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Earlier this week NASA announced that it had something it wanted to tell us about Mars. Today, NASA scientists presented their findings in a pair…
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The last we heard of NASA's New Horizons probe was when NASA released a set of photos taken at the farthest point any spacecraft has…
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Private spaceflight companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin have made some big promises when it comes to tourism in space. Eager (and very wealthy) astronaut…
Read MoreIf you've ever felt like there just aren't enough hours in the day just be glad that you didn't live on Earth 1.4 billion years…
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Remember "Planet 9"? No I'm not talking about Pluto. That ship has sailed. I'm talking about the maybe-kinda-sorta hidden planet that might-kinda-maybe be lurking at…
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Generally speaking, NASA has a pretty good idea of which asteroids are hanging out in Earth's neighborhood. Astronomers have spotted, plotted, and forecasted asteroid flybys…
Read MoreSpaceX has had a very, very busy year thus far. The company's steady diet of rocket launches has gone exceedingly well — aside from a…
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The idea of a colony of humans on Mars isn't just science fiction anymore; NASA and space agencies around the world, along with independent scientists…
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With that incredibly strange UFO report and jaw-dropping video from the US Navy still fresh in everyone's minds, news out of China that a UFO…
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Pluto has had a pretty interesting past few decades. Long considered the ninth official planet, astronomers who redefined what "planet" really means decided to reclassify…
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