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Researchers have observed mysterious, "dark ovals," each roughly the size of the Earth, dotting the polar regions of Jupiter.

Scientists Intrigued by Large Dark Shapes Appearing on Surface of Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio speaks about the struggles about an unexpectedly lengthy stay aboard the International Space Station.

Astronaut Who Was Stranded in Space Laments Missing Thanksgiving and Child’s Graduation

By Frank Landymore

Bad news, folks: those samples from the asteroid Ryugu appear to have been contaminated by life here on Earth.

Signs of Life in Asteroid Sample Turn Out to Be Something Embarrassing

By Victor Tangermann

As if they need any more problems, the International Space Station astronauts apparently had a smelly situation over the weekend.

Space Station Astronauts Complain of Horrible Smell After Russian Capsule Docks

By Noor Al-Sibai

A body language expert assessed Donald Trump's behavior around Elon Musk and found that the future president is acting unusually shy.

Body Language Expert Says Trump Is Acting “Submissive” Around Musk

By Ashley Bardhan

President-elect Donald Trump attended his new buddy SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's rocket launch on Tuesday. It didn't go quite as planned.

Trump Comes to Watch as Elon Musk’s Spacecraft Crashes Into the Ocean and Explodes

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists launched a design competition for a massive multi-generational spaceship that could sustain humans on the way to the next star.

Researchers Plotting Giant Spaceship That Could Carry Generations of Humans

By Victor Tangermann

China has shown off a reusable shuttle that it intends to use to ferry cargo to and from its Tiangong space station.

China Shows Off Reusable Space Shuttle

By Victor Tangermann

The budding bromance between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and president-elect Donald Trump could have massive implications for the US' space program.

Trump and Musk’s Bromance Could Make America’s Space Policy a Wild Ride

By Victor Tangermann

Russia Says Potentially “Catastrophic” Leak in Space Station Isn’t a Big Deal

Russia Says Potentially “Catastrophic” Leak in Space Station Isn’t a Big Deal

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are baffled after the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A, which was launched in 1969, moved to a different position in its orbit.

Scientists Puzzled by Military Satellite That Appears to Have Been Moved to a Distant Location

By Victor Tangermann

The interstellar tunnel, a feature of an enormous structure called the Local Bubble, could lead to nearby stars.

Astronomers Discover “Interstellar Tunnel” In Our Solar Neighborhood

By Frank Landymore

Japan has successfully launched the world's first satellite that's made out of wood on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Japan Launches Wooden Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

A Pentagon UFO whistleblower has admitted something unusual for anyone involved in government: that he was wrong.

Pentagon Whistleblower Admits Photo of UFO Mothership Was Fake

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA said that Voyager 1 suddenly stopped transmitting after its onboard emergency system activated without warning.

Decrepit Voyager 1 Probe Runs Into Trouble Again

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's SpaceX just launched a bunch of spy satellites for the Pentagon — and some in the DOD are getting worried.

Pentagon Uneasy About Elon Musk’s New Spy Satellites

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese space startup Deep Blue Aerospace sold tickets for a 12-minute journey to space, which could take place as soon as 2027.

Chinese Startup Offers Trips to Edge of Space for an Absolute Bargain, Sells Out in Minutes

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese astronauts on board the country's Tiangong space station have given us a rare glimpse into what life is like roughly 260 miles above.

Watch Astronauts Give a Rare Tour of China’s Luxurious Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

A space tourist slash civilian astronaut on the Polaris Dawn mission suffered immediate vision problems once in orbit.

Space Tourist Alarmed When Vision Starts to Deteriorate

By Frank Landymore

During an important rocket test, some students decided to strap some cheese onto one of the craft's landing legs.

Rocket Launch Threatened by Sliced Cheese Stuck on Leg

By Noor Al-Sibai

Resaerchers found that the vast majority of meteorites pummelling the Earth's atmosphere come from only three different asteroid families.

Almost All Meteorites That Hit Earth Are Coming From the Same Three Places, Scientists Discover

By Victor Tangermann

The robotic "SuperLimbs" attach to a spacesuit's backpack and can provide the extra push needed to recover from falls.

MIT Scientists Invent Doctor Octopus-Style “SuperLimbs” for Stumbling Astronauts

By Frank Landymore

Jupiter's Giant Red Spot is large enough to swallow Earth — and as new imagery suggests, it's a lot weirder than previously thought.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Acting Very Strangely, Puzzling Scientists

By Noor Al-Sibai

Space startup Vast has shown off the final design of what it claims will be the "world's first commercial space station."

Startup Unveils Luxurious Final Design for Its Planned Commercial Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

If there's a fifth force of physics to round out the Standard Model, asteroids may be our best bet of discovering its underlying particle.

Mysterious “Fifth Force” of Physics Could Be Influencing Asteroids Near Earth

By Frank Landymore

Some of the world's leading space experts are warning that the current space junk crisis surrounding our planet is soon to reach a head.

A Massive Space Junk Disaster in Orbit Is Inevitable Now, Scientists Warn

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick shared a breathtaking timelapse he took of red and green auroras outside the window of SpaceX's spacecraft.

This Timelapse of the Northern Lights Taken From Space Is Utterly Breathtaking

By Victor Tangermann

Four people were meant to head home from the ISS this week on a SpaceX shuttle — and are now stuck thanks to Hurricane Milton.

Astronauts Stranded in Space Due to Hurricane Milton

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Hera mission is officially underway to investigate the aftereffects of DART, NASA's successful planetary defense test.

Europe Deploys Spacecraft to Investigate Extraterrestrial “Crash Scene”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Astronomers have made a "baffling" discovery: the most distant rotating disc galaxy ever observed that closely resembles our own.

This Ancient “Rebel” Galaxy Closely Mirroring the Milky Way Has Astronomers Freaked Out

By Victor Tangermann

There’s Something Seriously Weird About This Supernova

There’s Something Seriously Weird About This Supernova

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two woman astronauts had to stay behind to make space for their stranded Starliner colleagues, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

Grounded Astronauts Angry They Were Forced to Give Up Their Seats for Stranded Starliner Crew

By Victor Tangermann

The sub-Earth mass planet was spotted in orbit around Barnard's star, a red dwarf that is only six light years away.

Astronomers Spot Mysterious Planet Orbiting the Closest Single Star

By Frank Landymore

An oddly shaped — and "potentially hazardous — asteroid the size of a skyscraper sure looks like an oversized peanut.

Radar Images Show Large Object Drifting Past Earth

By Frank Landymore

An amateur astronomer has spotted and taken images of a secretive Pentagon spacecraft whose purpose is unknown.

Man Spots Secret US Military Spacecraft With Amateur Telescope

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is vowing to sue the Federal Aviation Administration after they slapped him with violating certain arcane regulations.

Elon Musk, Who Brutally Mocked Jeff Bezos’ Space Company for Suing the Government, Is Now Suing the Government With His Own Space Company

By Sharon Adarlo

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer probe has spotted a habitable planet astonishingly close to us.

Rejoice! Spacecraft Confirms That Earth Is a Habitable Planet

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's Starlink satellites aren't just physically junking up Earth's orbit, but are actually interfering with radio telescopes.

Astronomers Say Elon Musk’s Vast Network of Satellites Is Blocking More and More of the Night Sky

By Noor Al-Sibai

The astronauts currently stranded due to technical issues with Boeing's Starliner space capsule plan to cast their vote in November.

Stranded Astronauts Say They’ll Vote From Space

By Sharon Adarlo

According to a pair of new studies, a passing star could have scraped the outer limits of the Solar System billions of years ago.

A Star Appears to Have Come Closer to Earth Than the Voyager Probes

By Frank Landymore

There's a chance that the 1,100 foot long asteroid Apophis could hit our planet after all, if it gets nudged by another asteroid.

Will This Killer Asteroid Hit Earth in 2029? Scientists Say They’ll Know for Sure by 2027

By Frank Landymore

Late Friday night, NASA's plagued Starliner spacecraft finally made it back to the ground. A new thruster failed.

Starliner Suffers New Problems While Coming Back to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

An astrophysicist's TikTok video about gas in galaxy clusters went viral – but because kids were looking for a different kind of galaxy gas.

Astrophysicist Surprised to Learn Why Her TikTok on “Galaxy Gas” Was Suddenly Blowing Up

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.

Scientists Intrigued by Signs of Hidden Ring of Objects at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Researchers suggest the outer boundary of the Milky Way may stretch much farther than initially thought and is already touching Andromeda.

Our Galaxy Appears to Be Touching Another Galaxy, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

The hatch of Boeing's plagued Starliner is officially closed. The spacecraft is set to make its return just after 6 pm EDT today.

Hatch Shut to Send Troubled Starliner Home With No Astronauts on Board

By Victor Tangermann

A unique startup claims it will soon let people buy spots of sunlight reflected with a giant satellite mirror.

Startup Says It’ll Use Huge Space Mirror to Sell Sunlight During Nighttime

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers say they've calculated the underlying cosmological parameters of the universe using an AI model.

Scientists Calculate “Settings” of the Universe Using AI

By Frank Landymore

Scientists in China have discovered a shockingly simple trick to extract large quantities of water from lunar soil.

Chinese Scientists Extract Water From Lunar Soil

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russian senior citizens recently gathered for an unusual message for President Vladimir Putin: bring those American astronauts home!

Russians Call on Putin to Rescue Stranded Space Station Astronauts

By Sharon Adarlo

A UFO whistleblower who claims that the government is hiding knowledge of extraterrestrials is doubling down on his claims in a new memoir.

Government Whistleblower Says There Was a Secret Pentagon Program to “Trap” UFOs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A rocket exploded yesterday during a test in the UK's Shetland islands, resulting in a massive fireball that engulfed the entire launchpad.

Rocket Explodes in Epic Fireball During Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ESA's JUICE probe is about to slingshot past Earth and the Moon on its way to Jupiter in what the agency is calling a "double world first."

Spacecraft to Scream Past Earth in a “Double World First” Slingshot Flyby

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have captured a object that's traveling so fast — one million miles per hour — that it's projected to leave the Milky Way Galaxy.

Amateur Astronomers Spot an Object Hurtling by at 1 Million MPH

By Sharon Adarlo

A public interest group is calling on governments to conduct an environmental review into mega constellations like SpaceX's Starlink.

Elon Musk Slammed for Filling Orbit With Space Junk

By Victor Tangermann

An amateur Austrian space photographer has managed a difficult feat — capturing imagery of China's secretive Shenlong spaceplane.

Amateur Spacewatcher Uses Telescope to Spot Secret Chinese Spaceplane in Orbit

By Noor Al-Sibai

China has deployed its first batch of satellites as it seeks to rival SpaceX's Starlink communications megaconstellation.

China Launches First Portion of Satellite Megaconstellation

By Noor Al-Sibai

The signal could help explain why an explosion called a gamma ray burst appeared to be the most powerful ever detected.

Scientists Find Hidden Signal in Epic Cosmic Explosion

By Frank Landymore

Astronauts on the International Space Station sent well wishes to the folks competing at the 2024 Olympics — with a zero-G take on the Games.

Astronauts Hold Their Own Olympics on Board Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In 2020, researchers announced the discovery of phosphine in Venus' clouds, a possible sign of life. They're back with new data.

These Scientists Were Shamed for Claiming Signs of Life on Venus, But Now They’re Back With More Evidence

By Victor Tangermann

China's mysterious Shenlong spacecraft may be doing more than just testing out its spacefaring capabilities, experts warn.

Chinese Spacecraft Has Secret Military Use, Experts Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronaut Shows Photo He Shot in Space That Would Be Impossible to Take Now

Astronaut Shows Photo He Shot in Space That Would Be Impossible to Take Now

By Victor Tangermann

The deep and dazzling layer of diamond on Mercury could help explain the existence of the planet's magnetic field.

Mercury Has an Eleven-Mile-Thick Layer of Diamonds, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

The Perseid meteor shower is back, and it's guaranteed to bring one of the best celestial light shows you'll see this year.

If You Look Up Tonight, There’s a Beautiful Meteor Shower Right Now

By Frank Landymore