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The Sun apparently got a little goofy as scientists observed a small, strange chunk of it breaking off and doing a little jig.

Small Chunk Breaks Off the Sun, Does a Little Dance

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to the US Space Force, a mysterious Russian satellite broke apart in orbit early last month, leaving at least 85 pieces of space debris behind.

Mysterious Russian Satellite Explodes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A rare form of binary star system containing a neutron star and a massive companion star is the first ever example of a system doomed to end in a kilonova.

Scientists Find “One in Ten Billion” Star System Primed to Explode in Titanic Kilonova

By Frank Landymore

A team of astronomers has discovered a highly intriguing rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby star called Wolf 1069.

Scientists Find Nearby Planet the Same Size of Earth, Plan to Search It for Life

By Victor Tangermann

Space startup Sierra Space has blown up its third inflatable space station module at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.

Space Startup Blows Up Another Giant Inflatable Space Station Module

By Victor Tangermann

Timothy Schmidt, a professor of chemistry at the University of New South Wales, called the green comet theory "the craziest email I have ever received."

Professor Receives Insane Email Claiming “Biological” Green Comet Is Giving Off “Meat Smoke”

By Frank Landymore

Planetary scientists have made a fascinating hypothesis about Saturn's smallest moon, Mimas, which may be home to a "stealth" ocean.

Scientists Find New Evidence of Hidden Ocean World in Our Solar System

By Noor Al-Sibai

An old Soviet-era rocket body almost collided with an errant military satellite, narrowly avoiding a huge disaster, according to tracking company LeoLabs.

Two Large Chunks of Space Debris Just Almost Collided in an Epic Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

Normally limited to use in Earth orbiting satellites, Hall thrusters may be able to punch above their weight even more than expected.

Test Suggests Ion Thrusters Could Power Crewed Interplanetary Missions

By Frank Landymore

Super-rare green comet C/2022 E3 — or ZTF for short — is making its closest approach to both the Earth and the Sun, dazzling hobby astrophotographers.

Behold! Dazzling Green Comet Approaches

By Victor Tangermann

It looks like the space relationship between the ESA and China may be disintegrating before even being officially launched.

European Space Agency Halts Plans to Send Astronauts to Chinese Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

An asteroid mining startup called AstroForge is preparing to launch two missions to space later this year, Bloomberg reports.

Asteroid Mining Startup About to Launch First Mission

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found asteroids that are largely made out of small pieces of rubble could be very difficult to ward off if one were to head our way.

Scientists Warn Giant Asteroid Is Actually Swarm, Nearly Impossible to Destroy

By Victor Tangermann

A new occupational hazard for astronomers just dropped — and it's all because the James Webb Space Telescope is, perhaps, a little too good at its job.

Astronomers Complain That the JWST Is Producing Too Much Data, Too Fast

By Noor Al-Sibai

Famed Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin has married a woman who works for him at the cool age of 93 in a ceremony that took place on his birthday.

Buzz Aldrin Marries His Employee at the Young Age of 93

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you go outside at night on a clear day, there's a decent chance you'll be able to spot a giant, green comet passing by our planet.

If You Go Outside, You May Be Able to See an Awesome Green Comet

By Victor Tangermann

"Star Trek" actor George Takei has aimed his sights at co-star William Shatner yet again, saying he did not in fact go into outer space.

George Takei Slams William Shatner, Says He Didn’t Really Go to Space

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have uncovered a macabre potential explanation for why a specific subset of exoplanets haven't been observed yet.

Scientists Offer Ghoulish Theory for Why There Are No Planets of a Certain Size

By Noor Al-Sibai

An international team of researchers have captured radio signals originating from atomic hydrogen from an extremely distant galaxy.

Astronomers Detect Radio Signals Emanating From Extremely Distant Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

The first probe sent to us by an alien civilization may not actually be the first to have been sent, which could make first contact super confusing.

The Second Alien Probe We Detect May Be Particularly Bizarre, Scientist Says

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Orbit has sheepishly admitted that its latest rock-themed mission experienced an anomalous failure shortly after lift-off.

Virgin Orbit Admits That Its Rolling Stones-Themed Mission Disintegrated After Launch

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russia's space agency has announced it will rescue two stranded cosmonauts currently stuck on board of the ISS with an uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft next month.

Russia Announces Plan to Rescue Stranded Cosmonauts

By Victor Tangermann

Richard Branson says that Elon Musk surprised him in his kitchen at 2am, hours before Branson's first trip to Almost Space with Virgin Galactic.

Richard Branson Says Elon Musk Showed Up at His House at 2am

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We Are Completely Puzzled by This Video of a Chinese Astronaut Playing Ping-Pong in Space

By Victor Tangermann

A newly-detected green comet is about to do a flyby near Earth — and it may be visible to the naked eye if conditions are just right.

A Super Rare Green Comet Is About to Pass By the Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

It appears that Twitter has taken to suspending space-watching journalists for posting rockets, which is an integral part of their jobs.

Twitter Suspends Multiple Space Journalists for Posting Rockets

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's lunar mission has lost one its cube-shaped satellite entourage, which over the weekend shot out of the Moon's orbit.

Dead Artemis Spacecraft Careens Out of Lunar Orbit

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have admitted that it's "theoretical" to put a giant mesh bag around an asteroid to build space cities — but that it's technically feasible.

Scientists Propose Building City Inside Giant Bag Around Entire Asteroid

By Noor Al-Sibai

A form of red giant known as red clumps have been founding to be "glitching" in their cores at an alarmingly high proportion.

Astronomers Intrigued by Certain Stars That Are “Glitching”

By Frank Landymore

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which is currently docked to the ISS, is rapidly heating up after it sprayed copious amounts of coolant into space.

Russia Alarmed as Spacecraft Heats Up After Coolant Sprays Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

Bad news for astronauts looking to go home: their ride back, the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, suddenly started leaking uncontrollably.

Russian Spacecraft Docked to ISS Sprays Fluid Into Space, Seemingly Struck by Micrometeorite

By Frank Landymore

Space startup Sierra Space intentionally blew up a prototype inflatable space station module to see how much punishment it can take.

Experimental Inflatable Space Station Segment Explodes Violently

By Victor Tangermann

After examining over 200,000 images taken by Hubble, a faint excess of light spread across our sky has been detected by astronomers.

Scientists Stumped by “Ghostly Glow” Surrounding Our Solar System

By Frank Landymore

William Shatner is opening up more about his life-changing trip to space and why it freaked him out so badly that it turned him into an environmentalist.

William Shatner Explains Why His Trip to Space Was Horrible

By Noor Al-Sibai

With Artemis on its way back on to Earth, the question remains — why is it not going back out for at least two more years?

One Silly Little Detail Is Reportedly Delaying Artemis II by Years

By Noor Al-Sibai

A UK-based space startup is accidentally using a photo of an exploding Antares rocket on its website to illustrate SpaceX's efforts to develop its Starship.

Space Tourism Company’s Website Accidentally Shows Photo of Rocket Exploding

By Victor Tangermann

Introducing Asteroid Launcher, an app that allows you to simulate exactly how an asteroid impact might destroy your hometown — or anywhere else.

Fun Website Lets You Simulate an Asteroid Impact in Your Hometown

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An unusual volcanic comet has unexpectedly erupted in a massive cloud of gas and ice, stunning astronomers, Live Science reports.

Astronomers Spot Volcano Erupting on a Distant Comet

By Victor Tangermann

It's not exactly a greenhouse, but astronauts aboard the ISS have been carefully tending to their garden for years. Time for fruits to join the mix.

Astronauts Prepare to Grow Juicy Dwarf Tomatoes in Space

By Frank Landymore

China's in hot water after being accused of sabotaging a Philippine mission to retrieve Chinese rocket debris from that country's disputed waters.

Chinese Military Forcefully Seizes Debris That Philippines Recovered After It Fell From Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers at Johns Hopkins University have made one of the most comprehensive maps of the Universe yet, using data previously unreleased to the public.

Amazing Map Lets You Scroll Through the Entire Known Universe

By Frank Landymore

British astronomer Thomas Marsh went missing while visiting La Silla Observatory in Chile. 55 days later, his body has finally been found.

Missing Astronomer Found Dead Near Space Telescope in Chile

By Frank Landymore

NASA's uncrewed Orion capsule is officially making its way to the Moon as we speak. And the views are genuinely breathtaking.

Amazing Video Shows Artemis I Leaving Earth Behind

By Victor Tangermann

China's got a lot of explaining to do after one of its rockets broke apart after being launched into orbit and spewed out dozens of pieces.

Chinese Official Squirms at Question About Rocket That Disintegrated in Orbit

By Noor Al-Sibai

A giant snake quickly darting across the Sun's surface was spotted by the ESA's Solar Orbiter, and it might have been a precursor to an even bigger event.

Amazing Video Shows Huge “Snake” Slithering Across the Sun’s Surface

By Frank Landymore

The University of St. Andrews announced the formation of a new research hub, bringing together the brightest minds to prepare humanity for first contact.

Scientists Preparing for Alien Contact

By Victor Tangermann

ABC News reports that Chinese space debris from another one of the nation's Long March 5B rockets was just discovered at sea off the Philippines coastline.

Chinese Space Debris Crashes Down in the Philippines

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Divers, who were looking for a WW2 aircraft wreckage off the Florida Space Coast discovered the heat shield remains of NASA's space shuttle Challenger.

Divers Discover Fragment of Challenger Space Shuttle Under Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

What would happen if the International Space Station was circling the planet at the altitude of an airplane? This video shows what that would look like.

Amazing Video Shows What the ISS Would Look Like If It Flew at the Height of a Jetplane

By Victor Tangermann

Only some 90 light years away lurks a graveyard of destroyed planets orbitting a white dwarf. And it may be one of the oldest solar systems in the universe.

Astronomers Find Wreckage of Destroyed Solar System Right Near Our Own

By Frank Landymore

An ominous and relatively uncharted region of space known as the "zone of avoidance" has been hiding a cluster of galaxies, according to astronomers.

Astronomers Spot “Extragalactic Structure” Lurking In Obscured Zone of the Universe

By Frank Landymore

After launching into orbit three months ago, China's top-secret spaceplane has released a mysterious object, which is now circling the Earth behind it.

Chinese Spaceplane Releases Mystery Object Into Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

China Plans to Send Monkeys to Space Station to Have Sex With Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Chinese researchers claim to have turned lunar regolith samples brought back by the country's Chang'e 5 mission into a source of fuel.

Scientists Use Actual Lunar Soil Sample to Create Rocket Fuel

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have detected the largest potentially hazardous asteroid in 8 years, a one-mile-wide space rock that could end life as we know it.

Astronomers Detect “Planet Killer” Asteroid That Poses Small But Real Risk to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

A gigantic piece of a Chinese Long March 2D rocket has seemingly plummeted back down to Earth and lodged itself in a crop in the province of Gansu.

Large Chunk of Chinese Rocket Comes Crashing Down, Lodges in Field

By Victor Tangermann

Onlookers have been puzzled by the weird look in the eyes of the astronauts selected for SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission, and there's a cool reason why.

There’s a Fascinating Reason These Astronauts’ Eyes Look So Strange

By Frank Landymore

The International Space Station had to ignite its thrusters for over five minutes to dodge pieces of the satellite Russia intentionally blew up last year.

Space Station Forced to Perform Huge Swerve to Avoid Debris From When Russia Blew Up a Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

Excess carbon dioxide is cooling the Earth's upper atmosphere, making it so that close-orbit objects like satellites and space junk stay in orbit longer.

Climate Change Is Apparently Doing Something Weird to Satellites

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Using its NEOWISE telescope, NASA has combined 12 years worth of images to create the ultimate timelapse of our sky, and it's breathtaking.

This 12-Year Time-Lapse of the Entire Night Sky is Seriously Blowing Our Minds

By Frank Landymore

Scientists Spotted Something That Appeared to Be Moving 7 Times the Speed of Light

Scientists Spotted Something That Appeared to Be Moving 7 Times the Speed of Light

By Frank Landymore

The catalyst for this newfound Space Dude rivalry between Neil deGrasse Tyson and retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly? "Top Gun: Maverick."

Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Fighting With a Retired Astronaut About “Top Gun: Maverick”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Earlier this year, a fake astronaut conned an old woman into sending him a ton of money in order to get back home from the ISS — and catfished her to boot.

Scammer Fools Woman Into Thinking They’re an Astronaut Who Needs a Ticket Home

By Noor Al-Sibai

Actor Tom Cruise, famous for his extensive film career and just being the eternal embodiment of midlife crises, is still set to film a movie in space.

Universal Studios Chair Says Tom Cruise Is Still Going to Space

By Maggie Harrison Dupré