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New research suggests that our Solar System may already be swimming in interstellar objects that originate from the Alpha Centauri system.

Alpha Centauri Sending Stream of Objects Into Our Solar System, Scientists Propose

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet just twenty light years away that's residing in its star's habitable zone.

Scientists Intrigued by Nearby Planet That Could Potentially Support Life

By Frank Landymore

Home security footage shows a meteorite smashing into the ground right where the owner was standing only moments before.

Video Shows Meteorite Smashing Ground Right Where Man Had Been Standing

By Frank Landymore

Built by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the first wooden satellite has been deployed from the Space Station.

Astronauts Release Wooden Satellite From Space Station

By Frank Landymore

NASA says that anyone who wants to know more about the smell on the ISS this weekend will have to speak to mother Russia.

NASA Says You Will Have to Ask the Russian Space Program About the Horrid Smell on the Space Station

By Ashley Bardhan

NASA is laying off hundreds of employees at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, in response to a lower budget.

NASA Is Laying Off Hundreds of Employees Again

By Frank Landymore

The interstellar tunnel, a feature of an enormous structure called the Local Bubble, could lead to nearby stars.

Astronomers Discover “Interstellar Tunnel” In Our Solar Neighborhood

By Frank Landymore

There's an interesting reason that stars captured by the James Webb Space Telescope look so unique and spiky.

James Webb Space Telescope

Once You Notice This Weird Thing About James Webb Space Telescope Images, You Won’t Be Able to Unsee It

By Frank Landymore

A space tourist slash civilian astronaut on the Polaris Dawn mission suffered immediate vision problems once in orbit.

Space Tourist Alarmed When Vision Starts to Deteriorate

By Frank Landymore

The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.

Scientists Intrigued by Signs of Hidden Ring of Objects at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

A new study found that we could use metals found on Mars to create particles that would trap heat once released into the planet's atmosphere.

Scientists Propose Low Cost Plan for Terraforming Mars

By Frank Landymore

Women are able to recover faster from spaceflight better than men, according to a new study, though it's not clear why.

Women’s Bodies Better Suited for the Horrors of Space, Study Finds

By Frank Landymore

The James Webb Space Telescope's dazzling imagery actually arrives to researchers in black-and-white and is colored via educated guessing.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb’s Beautiful Images Actually Arrive in Black and White

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

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

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 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

The spacecraft Peregrine will be the first American lunar lander built by a private space company if it lands on the Moon successfully.

Private American Moon Mission Launching Monday

By Sharon Adarlo

If you ever find yourself aboard a spaceship and you have the sudden urge to poop — former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino offers some insight.

Former NASA Astronaut Explains How to Poop in Space

By Sharon Adarlo

Japanese engineers have successfully test-fired a space rocket engine, which runs on — not even joking — locally-sourced cow poop.

Japan Tests Rocket Engine Powered by Cow Dung

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Harvard professor Avi Loeb is headed back to Papua New Guinea to find fragments of a meteor that he thinks was actually an alien probe.

Harvard Scientist Planning New Expedition to Hunt for Bigger Chunks of Possible Alien Spacecraft

By Sharon Adarlo

A startup, Spaceborn United, wants to reach the goal of having a baby naturally conceived and born on Mars in the future.

Startup Working on Space Babies, But the Risks Are Grim

By Sharon Adarlo

Astronauts thawed frozen mouse embryos abroad the International Space Station and were able to grow them normally.

Japanese Researchers Just Grew Mouse Embryos in Space

By Sharon Adarlo

Sorry everyone, but the government says Varda Space's orbital pharmaceuticals can't come back to Earth just yet.

US Government Won’t Let Space Drugs Factory Come Back to Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

America launched a space rocket loaded with satellites whose mission is to spy on any enemy spacecraft above Earth.

Space Force Launches Spy Satellites

By Sharon Adarlo

A company has developed a miniaturized in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo incubator, which they hope will be launched into space soon.

Prosthetics and Devices

Startup Planning to Launch IVF and Embryo Incubator Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

NASA director of facilities Erik Weiser warned on Thursday that the space agency's facilities are in an "increasing state of decline."

NASA Complains That Its Buildings Are Falling Apart

By Frank Landymore

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

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

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

Scientists think a rock found in Morocco could the be first known "terrestrial meteorite," basically a meteorite that originated on Earth.

Weird Meteorite Appears to Have Left Earth and Then Come Back

By Sharon Adarlo

James Webb Spots Oldest Supermassive Black Hole Ever

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Oldest Supermassive Black Hole Ever

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of astronomers has detected the faint hum of gravitational waves echoing throughout our universe, possibly caused by black holes.

Astronomers Detect Mysterious Ripples in Spacetime Caused by Ancient Black Holes

By Sharon Adarlo

What a Beaut! Mars Shines in Gorgeous New UV Images

What a Beaut! Mars Shines in Gorgeous New UV Images

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have come up with an ingenious origami-inspired robot.

Ikea Trembles as Scientists Invent Flat Packable Robot

By Victor Tangermann

A white dwarf that's about 104 light years away is slowly crystallizing, a process that could take a quadrillion years.

Scientists Spot Star Transforming Into Colossal Cosmic Diamond

By Sharon Adarlo

Kairan Quazi, 14 years old, is set to graduate from college and has already nabbed a job to be a software engineer at SpaceX.

Advanced Transport

14-Year-Old Graduates College, Gets Job at SpaceX

By Sharon Adarlo

Chinese astronauts claim they have grown stem cells for human blood in space, in an achievement they say is the first of its kind.

Chinese Astronauts Grow Human Blood Cells in Space

By Sharon Adarlo

A supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy is expected to be visible for months, even from amateur backyard telescopes.

New Supernova in Sky May Shine for Months

By Sharon Adarlo

According to a recent study conducted by a team of Chinese scientists, the Milky Way galaxy might be a regular, two-armed spiral after all.

Oops! Scientists Say Our Galaxy May Be a Different Shape From What They Thought

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A possible meteorite struck a house in Hopewell, New Jersey on Monday — and incredibly, the decently-sized, maybe-space-rock is still intact.

Cops Say Meteorite Appears to Have Smashed New Jersey House

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There may be planets made up of dark matter with their own bizarre physics, a group of scientist argue in a new study: and they might know how to find them.

Physicists Say There May Be Entire Planets Made of Dark Matter

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

While the possibility of traveling to space is thrilling, the actual effects it has on the body aren't just rough — they're often downright horrifying.

A Brief List of Horrifying Things Space Travel Does to the Human Body

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have discovered a dead magnetar star that appears to have a frozen, crusty outer shell — and no atmosphere, to boot.

Science & Energy

Scientists Startled by Dead Star That Appears to Have a Solid Exterior

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

During his maiden voyage to space, "Star Trek" icon William Shatner had an awe-inspiring experience — but it wasn't necessarily positive.

William Shatner Says His Space Trip Left Him With a Feeling of Terrible Grief

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's plenty of truly impressive Minecraft creations out there. But recreating galaxies and black holes? That might take the cake.

Madman Builds “Entire Universe” in Minecraft

By Frank Landymore

New photos show exactly how big of a chunk NASA's asteroid battering ram took out of a flying space rock yesterday in its DART mission.

Images Show Huge Plume of Debris as NASA Probe Smashes Asteroid

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Everyone has pondered the conundrum of space sex — but the nerds at NASA are apparently more concerned about sex's side effects than the act itself.

NASA Reportedly Concerned That Astronauts Will Get Pregnant in Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronauts like the European Space Agency's Samantha Cristoforetti practice life-saving CPR procedures on board the International Space Station.

Astronaut Shows How to Perform CPR in Zero Gravity

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA estimates there are thousands of asteroids big enough to be "semi-apocalyptic" near Earth's orbit. Why isn't the White House worried?

White House Pushes to Delay Killer Asteroid Telescope

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA will need a special containment lab to safely study Martian rock samples returned from Mars. Pathogens can't be allowed to escape for Earth's safety.

New Details Emerge About NASA’s Lab to House Martian Samples

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA planetary scientist Alan Stern just visited the Titanic, and now he's getting ready to blast off into space with Virgin Galactic.

Guy Who Just Visited the Titanic in a Submarine Now Headed to Space

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Citizen scientist Judy Schmidt of Modesto, California, collaborated with NASA to create a new image of Jupiter — and it's stunning.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Captures Jupiter in Glorious Infrared

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Harvard professor Avi Loeb wants to retrieve a meteor from the bottom of the Pacific Oean because it may contain alien tech or remnants of alien culture.

Harvard Professor Trying to Recover Alleged Alien Tech From Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Cosmic voids in the cosmic web may be connected to dark energy, which causes the universe to expand at an accelerating rate.

Huge Empty Voids in Universe May Be Generating Dark Energy, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Earth is the only planet known to have continents, and they were created by giant meteoric impacts from space, a new study says.

Earth’s Continents Were Created by Epic Meteor Impacts, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood