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This tasty cosmic sandwich is a star surrounded by a protoplantery disk that we're seeing at an incredibly rare angle.

Scientists Discover Sandwich-Shaped Star

By Frank Landymore

The spacecraft, developed by Varda Space Industries, has spent over a year in space manufacturing protein crystals used to develop drugs.

Drug Manufacturing Spacecraft Finally Cleared to Return to Earth

By Frank Landymore

An international team of scientists has discovered water molecules on the surface of an asteroid for the first time.

Scientists Surprised to Find Distant Asteroid Is Very Soggy

By Victor Tangermann

Using a supercomputer, a team of astrophysicists have simulated how young gas giants grow and found that they first have a flattened shape.

Jupiter Used to Be Flat, Scientists Suggest

By Victor Tangermann

Departing Astronauts Leave Sticky Brown Surprise in Space Station

Departing Astronauts Leave Sticky Brown Surprise in Space Station

By Sharon Adarlo

Ancient Human Artifact Was Made With Extraterrestrial Material, Scientists Say

Ancient Human Artifact Was Made With Extraterrestrial Material, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Last fall, NASA's Mars rover spotted a massive spot on the surface of the Sun — and now, that ginormous maw is looking directly at the Earth.

Gigantic Spot on Surface of Sun Turns to Face the Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

A massive, defunct satellite is set to come crashing through the Earth's atmosphere and plummet to the surface below in a matter of weeks.

Massive European Satellite to Plummet Back Down to Earth Uncontrollably

By Victor Tangermann

Despite being many light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth.

Explosion Light-Years Away Could Obliterate Life on Earth, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

Things have gone from bad to worse for Voyager 1, which has been out of contact with its Earth-bound mission control for months now.

Things Are Looking Pretty Grim for Voyager 1

By Noor Al-Sibai

OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta told New Scientist that asteroid Bennu may have been "an ancient ocean world."

Sample From Distant Asteroid Shows Signs of Originating on Ocean World

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing "super-Earth" that's orbiting its red dwarf star inside the habitable zone.

Astronomers Discover Potentially Habitable Planet

By Victor Tangermann

There are a bunch of dancing objects hanging out in space with no stars — and two of them seem to be giving off some weird radio waves.

Scientists Puzzled by Planet-Sized Objects Emitting Strange Radio Signal

By Noor Al-Sibai

Private space company Sierra Space has blown up its first full-scale inflatable space habitat dubbed LIFE — and it was all part of the plan.

Full-Scale Prototype Space Habitat Explodes Under Pressure

By Victor Tangermann

After leaving the Pentagon, the government's former head UFO hunter is sounding off about all things unidentified.

Pentagon’s Former Head UFO Hunter Says This Is the Truth

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have observed an object that's far heavier than any known neutron star, but too light to be classified as a black hole.

Astronomers Puzzled by Inexplicable Deep Space Object

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a mysterious exoplanet that orbits its star some 160 light-years away — which has a 350,000-mile-long tail.

Astronomers Discover Planet With Long Tail

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese start-up EX-FUSION plans to use a powerful laser pulse to literally stop space junk in its tracks, safely de-orbiting it.

Startup Building Huge Laser to Shoot Down Space Junk From the Ground

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a glorious image of two massive galaxies in the process of colliding with each other.

Hubble Snaps Alarming Pic of Two Galaxies Crashing Into Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

The megastructure is over 1.3 billion light years across, challenging our current understanding of cosmology.

Astronomers Puzzled by Cosmic Megastructure So Large It Shouldn’t Exist

By Frank Landymore

The galaxy is rich in gas but contains no visible stars. Astronomers believe it could be the first dark, primordial galaxy ever found.

Astronomers Puzzled by Galaxy With No Stars

By Frank Landymore

The Hubble Space Telescope has helped detect something remarkable: the strongest and oldest radio transmission ever recorded.

Hubble Detects Uber-Strong Radio Transmission From Ancient “Blob”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Peregrine lunar lander had on board the human remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and others on its failed mission to the Moon.

Gene Roddenberry’s Remains Now Drifting Through Space

By Sharon Adarlo

Videos show what appears to be a pair of Chinese rocket boosters crashing in inhabited areas in the country's Sichuan province.

Videos Show Chinese Rocket Parts Raining Down, Exploding

By Victor Tangermann

Some members of Congress are going to get a briefing on UFOs soon — though of course, the public won't be privy to anything they learn.

Congress Receiving Mysterious Classified Briefing About UFOs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amateur astronomer and satellite tracker Scott Tilley says China's top-secret spaceplane is emitting strong signals over North America.

Chinese Spacecraft Emitting Strong Signal Over North America

By Victor Tangermann

After embarking on its third mission, China's top-secret spaceplane dubbed Shenlong has released six mysterious objects into Earth's orbit.

Chinese Spaceplane Releases Six Mysterious Objects That Are Emitting Signals

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says one trillion people could soon live inside cylindrical space stations since planets are too small.

Jeff Bezos Discusses Plans for a Trillion People to Live in Huge Cylindrical Space Stations

By Victor Tangermann

While can still only hazard a guess as to what's behind fast radio bursts, the latest detection is only adding to the mystery.

Mysterious Signals From Space Are Getting Stranger, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists are hard at work sifting through samples from an ancient asteroid, and what they've found so far has been fascinating.

Scientists Surprised by Samples Recovered From Ancient Asteroid

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's been nearly 40 years since Halley's comet last flew by Earth — and very soon, it will be headed back our way.

Halley’s Comet Gearing Up for Its Return Journey Toward Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio was accused of eating a tiny tomato that was grown on board the space station. It has now been found.

Space Station Astronauts Find Desiccated Tomato After Blaming Colleague for Its Theft

By Victor Tangermann

A massive hole opened up in the Sun's atmosphere over the weekend, measuring more than 60 times the diameter of the Earth across at its peak.

A Gigantic Hole Just Opened Up in the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

The International Space Station is celebrating its 25th birthday even as NASA prepares to put it out to pasture.

Space Station Turns 25, Just in Time to Die

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have discovered an impossibly large planet that's apparently too big to exist based on all known science.

Scientists Astonished by Planet That’s Way Too Big to Exist

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have come up with a solution to the "Hubble tension," arguing that Einstein didn't consider we're in the middle of a cosmic void.

Our Galaxy Appears to Be in a Huge Empty Void

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's aging Hubble Space Telescope is in "safe mode" due to a recurrent technical issue, which has taken the 30-something craft offline.

The Hubble Has Broken Down Again

By Noor Al-Sibai

The six exoplanets in this star system revolve in perfect mathematical ratios relative to each other, in what's known as oribital resonance.

Scientists Discover Star System So Perfect It Seems Like Art

By Frank Landymore

Researchers simulated what would happen if a rogue star were to come within 100 astronomical units of the Sun.

Scientists Study What Would Happen If a Rogue Star Crashed Through Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists detected an extremely high-energy cosmic ray beaming from outer space — which confusingly came from nowhere in particular.

Scientists Puzzled by High Energy Signal Coming From Seemingly Empty Space

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that there are regions on Mercury that may have the right conditions for biological life to survive.

Scientists Say There May Be Life Under Mercury’s Salt Glaciers

By Sharon Adarlo

A video captured by an amateur astronomer in Japan shows a super-bright comet, also known as a bolide, exploding as it collides with Jupiter.

Object Crashes Into Jupiter, Explodes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A dead star is still emitting powerful flares of blue light — a fascinating discovery offering a glimpse into a rare type of star death.

Dead Star Springs Back to Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers recently simulated an atmospheric probe mission through Uranus and Neptune's atmospheres inside a plasma tunnel.

Scientists Simulate What It’s Like to Dive Into Uranus

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescopes, astronomers can confirm that there's a rocky exoplanet just a couple dozen light years away.

Hubble Discovers Closest Earth-Sized World to Our Star System

By Frank Landymore

That outlandish UFO whistleblower never came in to talk to the Pentagon's UFO office, the department's outgoing chief is claiming.

That UFO Whistleblower Apparently Refused Pentagon Interviews

By Noor Al-Sibai

$By using sound waves propagating through the Sun, researchers think our star's radius may be fractionally shorter than the traditional model.$

Scientists Say the Sun Is Smaller Than We Thought

By Frank Landymore

Previous research projected that a rogue white dwarf was on a collision course with our solar system. Not so, says a new study.

Bad News! A Rogue Star Will Not Crash Into Us, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

After getting some intense media grilling about whistleblower reports, the man who headed up the Pentagon's UFO office is stepping down.

Military UFO Head Resigns After Being Grilled About Whistleblower Claims

By Noor Al-Sibai

A husband-and-wife duo have published a book about life on Mars that includes a section about the ethics of astronaut cannibalism.

Should Astronauts Be Allowed to Eat Each Other If They’re Starving?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bolstering future deep space ambitions, Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station showed off their space-cultivated veggies.

Chinese Astronauts Harvest Space-Grown Lettuce and Tomatoes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Even the ghouls on Jupiter are out for Halloween! The Juno spacescraft captured a spooky image of a grimacing "face" in Jupiter's clouds.

Behold This Scary Face in the Clouds of Jupiter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A gamma ray burst triggered by colliding neutron stars, one of the brightest explosions ever, created tellurium and other heavy elements.

Neutron Star Collision Unleashes Explosion One Million Times Brighter Than Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

The cosmonauts were investigating the cause of a leak of ammonia coolant from the Russian segment of the International Space Station.

Cosmonauts Encounter Deadly “Blob” During Spacewalk

By Frank Landymore

More than 80 years ago, astronomers were doing a sky survey when three bright stars they just saw disappeared, never to be seen again.

Scientists Puzzled by Stars That Disappeared From the Sky

By Noor Al-Sibai

The signal is know as a fast radio burst (FRB), and it is the oldest and most powerful of its kind ever detected.

Scientists Intercept Signal That Took 8 Billion Years to Reach Earth

By Frank Landymore

Metals from spacecraft that are supposed to safely burn up in the atmosphere are staying there and potentially affecting the ozone.

Satellites and Spacecraft Are Polluting the Atmosphere, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

The observation of the donut-shaped cloud of debris is believed to be the first of a planetary collision's afterglow.

Astronomers Say Two Giant Ice Planets Collided, Leaving Donut-Shaped Wreckage

By Frank Landymore

In a new video, former astronaut Chris Hadfield reviewed a "F9: The Fast Saga" scene in which two characters ride a car into space.

Astronaut Analyzes That “Fast & Furious” Scene Where They Drive a Car Through Space

By Victor Tangermann

A livid SpaceX has responded to the Federal Aviation Administration warnings, denouncing its analysis as "deeply flawed."

FAA Warns That Falling Satellites Are Going to Start Killing People

By Frank Landymore

The potential detection of objects lying beyond the Kuiper Belt's limits may upend our understanding of what encircles our solar system.

Scientists Find Evidence for Large Unknown Objects in Distant Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have long known that Mercury shrank — but new research suggests that that process is ongoing, and leaving wrinkles behind.

Mercury Has Wrinkles Because It’s Shrinking, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

China is now planning to expand the station by doubling the number of modules, giving it a lot more room in orbit.

China’s Doubling the Size of Its Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have been poring over the samples collected by OSIRIS-REx, cracking open the canister to find an abundance of dark particles.

Scientists Surprised by Abundance of Material in Asteroid Sample

By Victor Tangermann