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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

The Sun is officially setting on the landing spot of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission yet again, diminishing hopes of it ever waking up again.

Hope Fades as Indian Rover Fails to Wake Before Sun Sets Again

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA spacecraft has caught a glimpse of a green comet being buffeted by a coronal mass ejection, a powerful solar storm.

Amazing Video Shows Solar Eruption Blasting Tail Off Comet

By Victor Tangermann

Two astronauts on board China's Tiangong space station have lit a candle with a match during a live broadcast.

Chinese Astronaut Lights Match in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers are arguing in a new paper that disco balls should be placed in universities and scientific facilities.

Astronomers Call for More Disco Balls at Scientific Facilities

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists Crack Open Lid of Canister Holding Asteroid Sample

Scientists Crack Open Lid of Canister Holding Asteroid Sample

By Victor Tangermann

Lights on Venus that scientists thought were from lightning may be something else entirely, a new study has found.

Scientists Stumped by Mysterious Flashes of Light on Venus

By Noor Al-Sibai

Irish TV station Virgin Media News broadcasted a breaking news segment about a "mysterious crater. Turns out it was a hole dug by locals.

Irish TV Crew Films Segment on “Mysterious Crater” That Turns Out to Be Hole Dug by Local “Lads”

By Victor Tangermann

Archaeologists were affronted to discover that billionaires had sent ancient hominin bones up on a Virgin Galactic spaceflight.

Paleontologists Furious When Ancient Human Fossils Blasted to Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

A fellow scientist is not convinced that Harvard's resident UFO-hunter found evidence of interstellar debris at the bottom of the Pacific.

Scientists Says Those Interstellar Debris May Be Something Totally Different

By Noor Al-Sibai

The European Space Agency carefully de-orbited its Aeolus satellite in July. Newly released images reveal its fiery, headlong descent.

Amazing Images Show Final Moments of Satellite Before It Burns Up Completely

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious pulsar that is launching accreted matter from its companion star like "cosmic cannonballs."

Dead Star Devouring Rival, Using Its Flesh to Shoot “Cosmic Cannonballs”

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon's UFO office has launched a website featuring all its declassified UFO videos — but proof of aliens will have to wait.

Pentagon Launches Website to Watch Declassified UFO Videos

By Noor Al-Sibai

Planetary scientists suggest an Earth-like planet, no bigger than three times the Earth's mass, could lurk beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Scientists Say There May Be Another Earth-Sized Planet Lurking in the Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Avi Loeb, Harvard's premiere alien hunter, has become the first person to ever analyze an object from outside of our Solar System.

Alien Hunting Scientist Says He Found Something Extremely Interesting at the Bottom of the Ocean

By Noor Al-Sibai

An entire crowd of people lined up and even started holding up traffic earlier this week — to gaze at Saturn through a telescope.

Man Sets Up Telescope in NYC, Attracts Huge Crowd Letting People Peer Into It

By Victor Tangermann

A fascinating new video released by the Indian space agency show the country's lunar lander rolling down to the surface.

Amazing Footage Shows Indian Rover Ramping Down to the Lunar Surface

By Victor Tangermann

The junk-on-junk collision created even more space junk, not to mention a headache for the scientists working on the ESA's clean up mission.

Attempt to Clean Up Space Junk Foiled When Cleanup Target Hit by Even More Space Junk

By Frank Landymore

If you haven't been able to catch the Perseids yet, an incredible (and free!) live stream will let you watch the meteor shower in real time.

Haven’t Caught the Perseids Yet? This Amazing Live Stream Lets You Watch Them in Real Time

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The biggest, brightest meteor shower of the year, the annual Perseids shower, will be on full display this Saturday and Sunday.

The Most Amazing Meteor Shower of the Year Is This Weekend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has kicked off its first-ever all-tourist trip into the upper atmosphere, but not space.

Richard Branson Blasts Daredevils a Bit High, But Definitely Not Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

The dust floating around the International Space Station is worse than what's milling around in your house or apartment, researchers found.

Scientists Alarmed by What Space Station Astronauts Appear to Be Breathing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev went for a ride on a robotic arm outside the International Space Station after outfitting it with a work platform.

Cosmonaut Ghost Rides 37-Foot Robotic Arm Outside Space Station

By Frank Landymore

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AI Is Now Identifying Killer Asteroids Before They Approach Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

Drew Angerer via Getty / Futurism

UFO Whistleblower: What I Told Congress Was the “Tip of the Iceberg”

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's a ton of bizarrely-bright light shooting out of the Sun — and it's been happening for years right under our noses.

Scientists Say the Sun Has Been Shooting Out Super-Bright Light For Years Without Anyone Noticing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Why build sophisticated rockets to get payloads into orbit, when you could simply build dumb and loud concrete tubes instead?

Startup Working on Super-Long Tube That Shoots Stuff Into Orbit at Mach 30

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of stars, one red dwarf, one brown dwarf, both of notable sizes small and large, have one of the tightest orbits ever spotted.

Two Tiny Stars Are Orbiting Each Other So Closely, the Entire System Could Fit In the Sun

By Frank Landymore

A professional UFO hunter is throwing cold water on the government whistleblower who claims the Pentagon has alien carcasses.

SETI Institute Shreds UFO Whistleblower’s Claims About Alien Corpses

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have developed a detailed computer stimulation that models the flow of heat and energy inside massive stars.

Amazing Simulation Shows What’s Happening Inside Stars

By Sharon Adarlo

Ever wanted to live on Venus? In a few short decades, you can — or that's what the other OceanGate cofounder claims.

OceanGate Cofounder Now Planning Totally Safe Colony Above Venus

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are positing that Mars' giant Olympus Mons volcano, which is roughly the size of France, may once have been an island.

Huge Martian Volcano Was Once an Island, Scientists Suggest

By Noor Al-Sibai

A planet way bigger than Jupiter has just been discovered, and its makeup may be cloudy with a chance of cotton candy.

Scientists Discover Clown Planet With Density of Cotton Candy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Drifting without a star, these rogue planets may vastly outnumber star-bound worlds like those of our solar system.

Trillions of “Rogue Planets” Are Wandering Through Our Galaxy, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have discovered strong evidence of two planets traveling the same orbit around a star, a phenomenon called Trojan planets.

Scientists Just Spotted Something Absolutely Wild in a Distant Star System

By Sharon Adarlo

Astronomers have discovered a suspected magnetar, which has been sending out radio waves every 22 minutes since at least 1988.

Mysterious Space Object Has Been Pulsing Every 20 Minutes Since the 1980s

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a two-faced, white dwarf star that appears to be made of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other.

Bizarre Two-Faced Star Seems to Be Different on Each Side

By Frank Landymore

New legislation which would require any information on "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)" to be publicly disclosed.

Bonkers New Law Would Reveal Alien Technology, “Non-Human Intelligence”

By Sharon Adarlo