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We're on the verge of decoding a telltale signal emitted when the universe gave birth to the very first stars.

Scientists Working to Decode Signal From Earliest Years of Universe

By Frank Landymore

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. The results are stunning.

Scientists Line Up Satellites to Create “Artificial Total Solar Eclipse”

By Victor Tangermann

The Space Station Leak Is Rearing Its Ugly Head Again

The Space Station Leak Is Rearing Its Ugly Head Again

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency released images that provide the first clear view of the southern pole of the Sun.

Astronomers Just Took the First-Ever Picture of the Bottom of the Sun

By Frank Landymore

The Pentagon's UFO office has learned that military officials have repeatedly spread disinformation about phony "alien technology."

Air Force Colonel Gave Out Photos of Flying Saucers Near Area 51

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you look just right, the Sun appears to be opening its mouth and laughing at us — and that "smile" is weirder than you'd think.

Giant Crude “Face” Appears on Surface of Sun

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have spotted something strange: a mysterious object that keeps emitting dual X-ray and radio wave pulses every 44 minutes.

Scientists Spot Mysterious Object in Our Galaxy Pulsing Every 44 Minutes

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers have discovered a binary system in which a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star.

Scientists Startled by Discovery of Small Star Swimming Through Outer Layers of Another Larger Star

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX now has its own company town — and the Elon Musk-owned company is already trying to mess with its residents' rights

Elon Musk’s New Company Town Tells Residents Their Rights Are Now Optional

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research suggests that our entire solar system is vulnerable to being thrown into chaos by a distant star.

Scientists Fear a Passing Star Could Fling Earth Out of the Sun’s Orbit, Into the Frigid Expanse Beyond

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have captured the Sun's corona in astonishing detail, revealing mesmerizing features like coronal rain — all in pink.

New Imaging Technique Makes the Sun Look Like a Swirling Pink Liquid

By Frank Landymore

Everything, as they say, is bigger in Texas — including the space-adjacent sexual harassment scandals, and the egos behind them.

Texas Solicitor General Resigns After Sharing Bizarre Fantasy About An Asteroid

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are intrigued after spotting a highly unusual celestial object lurking at the very edge of our solar system.

Scientists Detect Mysterious Object in Deep Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suggest a star and its planet are orbiting a second star in two opposite directions in an exotic binary star system.

Scientists Intrigued by Strange Behavior of Distant Planet

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that Jupiter used to be at least twice as big as it is today, during a crucial moment in the Solar System's evolution.

Scientists Find Jupiter Used to Be More Than Twice Its Current Size

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have observed a quasar-powered galaxy lasering its opponent with a crippling beam of radiation.

Astronomers Intrigued by Galaxy Blasting Its Neighbor With Giant Energy Beam

By Frank Landymore

China is launching a space-bound AI supercomputer — and the first of its satellites were just sent up into orbit.

China Is Building an AI-Powered Supercomputer Network in Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Across the American West, a massive glowing streak was seen in the skies — and an experimental rocket fuel seems to have been its source.

Chinese Spacecraft Accused of Dumping Experimental Fuel in Streak Seen Across American Sky

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers still don't quite understand the mysteries of Teleios.

Astronomers Baffled by a Suspicious, Perfectly Round Sphere in Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Samples taken from China's Tiangong space station contained a new, mysterious microbe that doesn't exist on Earth, researchers say.

Mysterious Bacteria Not Found on Earth Are Growing on China’s Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Australian startup Gilmour Space scrubbed the launch of its Eris rocket after its nose cone deployed while still on the launchpad.

Australian Rocket Launch Thwarted by Premature Payload Ejection

By Frank Landymore

Voyager 1, the furthest spacecraft from Earth that has been out there for nearly half a century, simply refuses to die.

Zombie Voyager 1 Spacecraft Resurrects Its “Dead” Thrusters Over 15 Billion Miles Away

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we have a clear view of Jupiter's auroras, which are hundreds of times more powerful than Earth's.

There’s Something Very Unusual About Jupiter’s Auroras

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that the universe around us is decaying far more quickly than we thought, thanks to Hawking radiation.

Scientists Just Moved Up the Death Date of the Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have made an intriguing discovery that could upend everything we know about the structure of the universe and its expansion.

Scientists Say That Something Very Weird Is Going on With the Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk said we must move to Mars because the Sun will swallow the Earth, ending life — which won't happen for another six billion years.

Elon Musk’s Urgent Concern: That the Earth Is Going to Get Swallowed by the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

After a Falcon 9 rocket exploded in 2016, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk became suspicious that a "sniper" on the roof of a rival's building shot it.

Elon Musk Became Fixated on the Idea That a Sniper Shot His Rocket, Causing It to Explode

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have detected a promising sign of a ninth planet lurking at the the farthest reaches of the Solar System.

Scientists Say They May Have Spotted a Huge Hidden Planet Deep in Our Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have discovered a gigantic, glowing gas of hydrogen gas lurking just 300 light-years away.

Scientists Intrigued by Glowing Cloud Near Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian satellite, which US officials have linked to the country's nuclear anti-satellite weapons program, is spinning out of control.

Russian Nuclear Military Satellite Spinning Out of Control

By Victor Tangermann

The dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our own, have an extremely strange distribution that's puzzling astronomers.

Astronomers Confused to Discover That a Bunch of Nearby Galaxies Are Pointing Directly at Us

By Frank Landymore

The hits just keep coming for Katy Perry, who is struggling in the wake of her Blue Origin trip to get audiences to shell out for seats.

Katy Perry Struggling to Sell Tickets After Disastrous Rocket Launch

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have developed an AI model that identifies star system that could be harborbing an Earth-like exoplanet.

An AI Identifies Where All Those Planets That Could Host Life Are Hiding

By Frank Landymore

A source close to Katy Perry feels that a certain burger chain went too far when it joked about the gawdy Blue Origin space stunt.

Katy Perry’s Camp Demanding Apology From Wendy’s for Shading Her Pointless Rocket Launch

Katy Perry's 11-minute jaunt to the lowest reaches of space via Jeff Bezos may be behind us, but the fun isn't quite over yet.

Rumors Swirl of Even Worse Celebrities Jeff Bezos May Shoot Into Space Next

By Noor Al-Sibai

As spotted by eagle-eyed netizens, there was something very odd about the way Blue Origin's capsule opened after landing.

There’s Something Incredibly Sketchy About How They Opened the Hatch on Katy Perry’s Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

There's significant questions about whether biosignature that the astronomers detected on the exoplanet is actually a sign of life.

There’s a Striking Flaw in That Claim About Alien Life on a Nearby Planet

By Frank Landymore

The widespread backlash and criticism to Blue Origin's all-women trip to "space" came to the surprise of crew members.

Zillionaire Girlbosses Astonished by Backlash to Their Frivolous Trip to Space

By Victor Tangermann

Katy Perry reportedly broke into song, singing "What a Wonderful World" during her rocket ride. Others wanted her to sing her own songs.

Passengers Trapped in Rocket With Katy Perry Wished She Would Sing Something Else

By Victor Tangermann

A stressed spouse revealed something quite dirty about their husband's telescope usage in their big old apartment in the sky.

Spouse Alarmed by What “Stargazing” Husband Is Really Doing With Telescope

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers made a fascinating discovery at the heart of our galaxy: "strange filaments" driving a cycle of gas emissions and replenishment.

Scientists Detect “Strange Filaments” at the Heart of Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

After all the space drama, astronomers have figured out what that "city killer" asteroid actually looks like: a flat, spinning disk.

Asteroid That Threatened Earth Shaped Like a Saucer, Scientists Find With Large Telescope

By Frank Landymore

Jeff Bezos is sending Katy Perry on the first ever all-female suborbital flight — and not everyone's thrilled by the news.

Olivia Munn Disgusted by Rocket Blasting Katy Perry Into Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Due to vibrations from their cores, stars are constantly fluctuating in brightness — and those waves, when converted to audio, make songs.

Scientists Intrigued by Stars Singing Ancient Songs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A crew of four private astronauts have become the first to ever fly over the Earth's poles in space, gaining a sublime view of Antarctica.

Space Tourists Startled to Discover That From Space, Antarctica Looks Pretty Much Like You’d Expect

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX's new Fram2 mission is experimenting with growing mushrooms in microgravity — but not the magic kind.

Astronaut Insists the Mushrooms He’s Growing in Space Are “Not the Ones You’re Thinking”

By Noor Al-Sibai

While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.

Scientists Tried to Kill Spacecraft But It Was So Tough That It Refused to Die

By Victor Tangermann

A rocket by German startup Isar Aerospace tore into the sky over Norway's Arctic Andoeya Spaceport, but exploded in a dramatic fireball.

Rocket Falls in Icy Wasteland, Explodes in Epic Fireball

By Victor Tangermann

The potential city killer asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer projected to strike our planet, but it and others like it will be back again.

Killer Asteroid Will Miss Earth But Return for a Shot at Revenge

By Frank Landymore

An ominous "Death Star" set to blast out a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on Earth.

Astronomers Investigate Whether Dying Star’s Blast of Deadly Gamma Radiation Will Hit Earth

By Frank Landymore

A star is predicted to erupt in an epic explosion known as a nova this week, providing a spectacle visible to the naked eye.

Scientists Say This Star Is Due to Explode Today, and You’ll Be Able to See It With Your Bare Eyeballs

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers suggest there's a giant "star grinder" lurking at the center of the Milky Way, churning up star systems.

Scientists Intrigued by “Star Grinder” Pulverizing Entire Star Systems in Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

Startup Magdrive claims to have developed a satellite that could one day be used to clean up space junk — by gobbling dead satellites.

Startup Working on Spacecraft Designed to Eat Dead Satellites for Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

The latest observations of a survey of millions of galaxies indicate that dark energy, which drives the universe's expansion, is changing.

An Important Force of the Universe Appears to Be Changing, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

During their months-long extended stay on the International Space Station, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore didn't get overtime.

You Will Never Guess What the Stranded Astronauts Got Paid for Their Trouble

By Noor Al-Sibai

Donald Trump insists, incorrectly, that he was the one to rescue those stranded astronauts — and he's getting roundly called out for it.

Trump Ridiculed for Claiming He Rescued the Stranded Astronauts

By Noor Al-Sibai

After splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico, stranded NASA astronauts Williams and Wilmore were greeted by a curious pod of dolphins.

Dolphins Appear as Astronauts Splash Down in Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Discover Four Intriguing Planets Around Closest Single-Star Solar System to Earth

Scientists Discover Four Intriguing Planets Around Closest Single-Star Solar System to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have traced a mysterious and extremely rare type of signal called a long period transient to a dead star in a binary system.

Mysterious Signal Coming From a Dead Star and Its Companion

By Frank Landymore

A robot aboard the recent Athena lunar lander survived the botched landing — but tragically couldn't break free.

Robot Survived Failed Lunar Landing But Was Trapped Inside and Died Afterward

By Frank Landymore

President Donald Trump posited that the stranded Starliner astronauts may have fallen in love on the International Space Station.

Trump Suggests That the Stranded Astronauts May Have Fallen in Love

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists say they've uncovered the "largest known galactic structure" — a cosmic monster that spans a mind-boggling 1.4 billion light-years.

Scientists Intrigued by Galactic Structure That’s 1.4 Billion Light-Years Wide

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers say that an x-ray signal is the "death knell" of a planet being ripped to shreds by a nearby star.

Scientists Realize They Witnessed the Last Gasp of a Planet as It Met a Horrible Fate

By Frank Landymore

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago.

Something Mysterious Swept Over Our Entire Solar System, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai