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Because the Sun is near the peak of its cycle, it's likely that you'll be able to see gigantic towers of plasma leaping off its surface.

You May Be Able to See Twisted Towers of Fire During Eclipse

By Jon Christian

Research shows that about one in 12 stars have devoured a planet, suggesting that stable planetary systems are less common than believed.

High Percentage of Stars Have Eaten a Planet, Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

Experts warn that fake protective solar eclipse glasses are flooding the market, which may lead to permanent damage to people's vision.

People Are Selling Fake Eclipse Glasses That Could Permanently Blind You

By Sharon Adarlo

A groundbreaking theory claims that everything in existence possesses some form of consciousness — including the Sun itself.

Fringe Theory Claims the Sun May Be Conscious

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are scouring the roofs of cathedrals for cosmic dust, micrometeorites, in order to study the chemistry of meteors.

Scientists Searching Roofs of Ancient Cathedrals for Strange Cosmic Dust

By Sharon Adarlo

Astronomers believe an egg-shaped exoplanet is hurtling towards its parent star faster than previously thought.

Astronomers Intrigued by Planet Shaped Like Egg

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The comet 12P/Pons-Brookes is returning for the first time since 1954, and astrophotographers are already discovering new things about it.

Exploding “Devil Comet” Flying Past Earth Has Spiral Core

By Frank Landymore

A nova explosion from 3,000 light years away is predicted to become visible to our naked eyes in the Northern Hemisphere.

Star Explosion Will Be Visible in Night Sky, Astronomers Say

By Sharon Adarlo

An engineer with the Deep Space Network figured out a way to decode a mysterious "new signal" coming from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.

Voyager 1 Sputters Back to Life

By Victor Tangermann

New James Webb Space Telescope measurements suggest that problems with Universal expansion rates may be caused by something else entirely.

We May Have “Misunderstood the Universe,” Nobel Prize Winner Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Japanese rocket by startup Space One has exploded in spectacular fashion following a launch attempt earlier today.

Rocket Explodes Seconds After Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers studied an atmospheric jet in Jupiter's Great Blue Spot, finding that it's a dynamic system that fluctuates every four years.

Scientists Intrigued by Jet Inside Jupiter

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists simulated the workings of a proposed space telescope, and trained it on Earth to see if it would be able to pick up signs of life.

Scientists Check Whether Space Telescope Could Detect Life on Earth

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists have uncovered evidence of an exoplanet covered entirely with water that's hot enough to boil an egg.

Scientists Intrigued by Water Planet Where Ocean Appears to Be Boiling

By Sharon Adarlo

Russia's space agency has confirmed that air is continuing to leak from its segment of the International Space Station.

Russia Confirms Small But Growing Leak in Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Space startup Varda Space Industries has shared a gorgeous video of one of its space capsules blasting through the Earth's atmosphere.

This Footage of a Capsule Returning to Earth Is a Low Key Sci-Fi Masterpiece

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have discovered that a white dwarf star bears a never before seen metal "scar" near one of its magnetic poles.

Dead Star Has Visible Scar After Devouring Chunk of Planet

By Frank Landymore

Scientists Scanning Beautiful Star System for Signs of Alien Tech

Scientists Scanning Beautiful Star System for Signs of Alien Tech

By Noor Al-Sibai

The European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite, after almost three decades in orbit, finally met its end this week.

Epic Shots Show Derelict Satellite Hurtling To Its Doom

By Frank Landymore

The Wall Street Journal reports that US officials are warning Putin to refrain from launching Russia's nuclear anti-satellite weapon.

US Gov Warns Putin Not to Launch Nuclear Anti-Satellite Weapon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Intuitive Machines' lunar lander Odysseus makes its final approach to the Moon, not all is going according to plan.

Private Lunar Lander Hits Unexpected Issues During White-Knuckles Descent

By Jon Christian

Known as the Radcliffe Wave, astronomers have discovered that this chain of stars, gas, and dust is propagating like a wave, too.

Galactic Wave May Have Crossed Paths With Earth, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Russia may be launching its nuclear anti-satellite craft into space soon — even as its own government denies that such a weapon exists.

Russia May Be Launching Nuclear Space Weapon Soon, Officials Warn

By Noor Al-Sibai

The anti-satellite space weapon Russia is said to be developing could potentially destroy low-Earth orbit for everyone.

Russia’s Space Nuke Could Destroy Orbit for Whole Planet, Germans Warn

By Noor Al-Sibai

This suggests that stars could be playing a bigger role in the evolution of our planet's orbit — and climate — than once believed.

Passing Star Altered Earth’s Orbit, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

New research posits that life originated somewhere in the cosmos — and that it traveled through space on tiny particles of cosmic dust.

Life Spreads Through Universe in Cosmic Dust, Paper Suggests

By Noor Al-Sibai

CNN reports that Russia is working on a nuclear-powered spacecraft designed to generate a huge energy wave that would knock out satellites.

Russian Nuclear Spacecraft Would Reportedly Attack With Massive Energy Wave

By Jon Christian

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