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European Space Agency scientists on the International Space Station captured dazzling footage of unusual lightning called blue jets and elves.

Science & Energy

Space Station Captures Amazing Footage of Lightning From Above

By Dan Robitzski

After a food shipment for Russian space station crewmembers was delayed by two months, the American cohort split their rations.

On ISS, Americans Give Food to Russians After Delayed Shipment

By Dan Robitzski

Would a head-on collision with a Cheeto orbiting the Earth be enough to destroy the International Space Station? Probably not, but it could do some damage.

Debate Rages Over Whether Single Speeding Cheeto Could Destroy Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists developed a proof-of-concept system that could generate fuel for astronauts out of Mars' atmosphere.

Astronauts Could Fuel Their Return Trip Using Mars’ Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

International Space Station crewmembers dug into radishes that were the first non-leafy green veggies to be grown and consumed on the ISS.

NASA Let Astronauts Feast on Space-Grown Vegetables

By Dan Robitzski

Congress is expecting a progress report from the National Science Foundation on how to rebuild the collapsed radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory.

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Congress Is Investigating the Collapsed Arecibo Observatory

By Dan Robitzski

A close look at an asteroid fragment revealed crystals that likely formed on an ancient, long-gone dwarf planet-sized object.

Scientists Say There Was a Huge, Mysterious Object in the Early Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

Roscosmos is prepared to ship additional oxygen supplies to the International Space Station, which continues to slowly leak oxygen.

Science & Energy

New Leak May Force Russia to Ship Oxygen to Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, Trump signed SPD-6 which calls for off-world nuclear reactors and nuclear propulsion systems for spacecraft.

Trump Signs Directive Calling for Nuclear Reactors in Space

By Dan Robitzski

Cornell scientists traced a radio signal back to a hot Jupiter exoplanet. If confirmed, it could help the hunt for habitable worlds.

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Cornell Scientists Find Radio Signal Coming From an Exoplanet

By Dan Robitzski

A system that can turn pee into drinking water on the International Space Station could also improve access to clean water on Earth.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say Pee-Drinking Machine Could Save Lives

By Dan Robitzski

European Space Agency scientists put out a time-lapse video showing how the Milky Way galaxy will evolve over 400,00 years.

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Dazzling Video Shows How Milky Way Will Evolve Over 400,000 Years

By Dan Robitzski

NASA astronomer Alan Stern tells Discover Magazine that the discovery of liquid oceans on other worlds is among the "most profound discoveries" in space.

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A NASA Scientist Heralds “One of the Most Profound Discoveries” of the Space Age

By Dan Robitzski

Space agencies around the world are collaborating to make high-security facilities to study asteroids and Mars rocks for signs of life.

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Space Agencies Acknowledge That Asteroids Could Host Life

By Dan Robitzski

Scienitsts decided to bring spiders to the International Space Station to find out how important gravity was for their webs.

Whose Brilliant Idea Was It to Bring Spiders to the Space Station?

By Dan Robitzski

Computer scientist and investor Sailesh Ramakrishnan says that the space industry is about to see a "gold rush" that will transform off-world exploration

Former NASA Scientist Predicts “Gold Rush” in Space

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese space agency instructed part of the Chang'e-5 spacecraft to crash back into the Moon after its job was done so it wouldn't become space junk.

Science & Energy

China Crashed Spacecraft Into the Moon so It Wouldn’t Become Space Junk

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is paying startups for any Moon dust they collect on missions scheduled for the next few years, but the payment is largely symbolic.

NASA Will Pay This Startup $1 to Collect Moon Dust. Wait, What?

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency compiled the most detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy in history, plotting the location and course of nearly 2 billion stars.

Science & Energy

This Is the Most Detailed Map of the Milky Way in History

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new book, of course they do. Routinely! According to a phenomenal rundown of booze in space on Supercluster, astronauts are saucing in space all the time.

So, Uh, Astronauts Routinely Smuggle Booze Into Space

By Foster Kamer

Billions of years from now, scientists predict that the Sun's hold on planets will wane and other stars will steal them out of the solar system.

Eventually, Other Stars Will Steal our Solar System’s Planets

By Dan Robitzski

China's robotic Chang'e-5 space probe successfully gathered up lunar samples and is poised to be the first successful lunar retrieval mission since 1976.

Science & Energy

Chinese Robot Mission Successfully Collects Moon Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

A startup called NewRocket developed a gel-like rocket fuel that's less toxic and more easily controlled than existing fuels.

Science & Energy

New Rocket Engine Could Use Slimy Gel as Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft successfully landed on the Moon, where it's expected to bring the first lunar samples back to earth in almost 50 years.

Science & Energy

China Lands on Moon Before Returning to Earth With Lunar Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

A team of space law experts argues that we need strong international accords to prevent military conflicts either in or fought over space.

Here’s How We Could Avert Off-Planet Warfare

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scienists were able to directly observe that our sun does the same kind of nuclear fusion expected from much heavier stars.

Scientists Decipher the Sun’s Nuclear Fusion for the First Time

By Dan Robitzski

An amateur astronomer may have found where the elusive Wow! Signal came from, tracing it back to a sun-like star in Sagittarius.

Strongest-Ever Candidate For Alien Message Came From Sun-Like Star, Researcher Says

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified massive ripples on the surface of Mars likely formed by an ancient megaflood and planet-covering storm clouds.

Science & Energy

NASA Data Shows Evidence of Ancient “Megafloods” on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

After a citizen scientist saw what looked like beams of darkness coming out of a black hole, scientists think it's similar to light piercing through clouds.

Science & Energy

Hubble Glimpses Huge “Dark Rays” Streaming Out of Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found evidence of a "fossil galaxy" buried deep inside the Milky Way. It seems our galaxy gobbled up one of its neighbors 10 billion years ago.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Remnants of “Fossil Galaxy” Inside the Milky Way

By Dan Robitzski

Filter out every star, galaxy, and other source of brightness we know about, and half of the light in the universe will still remain.

Astronomers Can’t Explain Where Half the Universe’s Light Is Coming From

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that amino acids can form in space without energy input, suggesting they may be older than stars and planets.

Building Blocks of Life Can Form in Deep Space, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

An independent review board assembled by NASA urged the space agency to proceed with an amibitous plan to gather Mars samples and bring them to Earth.

Science & Energy

Experts Urge NASA to Return Mars Samples to Earth

By Dan Robitzski

At 7:27 pm on Sunday, SpaceX launched a crew of four aboard a Crew Dragon module, carried into orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket.

Liftoff! SpaceX Launches NASA Astronauts Aboard Dragon Spacecraft

By Jon Christian

According to new research, the entire solar system took a mere 200,000 years to form — considerably less time than how long humanity has been around.

Humans Have Been Around for Longer Than it Took the Solar System to Form, Study Claims

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists quickly set their sights on an unusual neutron star merger that had an explosion ten times more powerful than expected and created a magnetar.

Science & Energy

Scientists Are Pretty Sure They Just Saw Two Stars Crash Into Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

Astrophysicist Janna Levin makes getting gobbled up by a black hole sound almost beautiful, up until the point that it isn't.

Science & Energy

This Physicist’s Description of Falling Into a Black Hole is Surprisingly Poetic

By Dan Robitzski

Distant supernova explosions seem to line up with spikes in radioactivity recorded in old tree rings, showing how cosmic events can alter our planet.

New Research: Supernovas Leave Traces in Tree Rings Here on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists think that Jupiter's moon Europa might glow in the dark and that by measuring that glow they can detect what's hidden in its oceans.

Science & Energy

NASA Project Could Peer Inside Europa to Find Alien Life

By Dan Robitzski

The universe has been steadily heating over billions of years due to the violent process of dragging matter together into new galaxies.

The Universe Is Getting Steadily Hotter, According to New Research

By Dan Robitzski

When Joe Biden takes office, he may shift NASA's priorities away from space exploration and toward a renewed focus on climate change.

Biden May Slow Down Moon Program to Focus NASA on Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

After NASA criticized the satellite startup AST & Science for its plans to launch a fleet of telecom satellites, AST's founder fights back.

Science & Energy

The Satellite Startup That NASA Criticized Is Firing Back

By Dan Robitzski

There's a mysterious asteroid stuck in Mars' gravitational pull, and astronomers suspect it might be the Moon's long-lost twin.

Science & Energy

A Stolen Chunk of Earth’s Moon Seems to Be Orbiting Mars

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force opened a new research lab that it says will enable it to build new resilient, high-strain spacecraft and satellites.

Air Force Opens New Lab for Spacecraft Materials

By Dan Robitzski

An extremophile bacteria survived a year in space. Scientists uncovered how it pulled off the feat, suggesting microbes could travel among planets.

Science & Energy

New Research Shows How a Microbe Could Survive Journey Between Planets

By Dan Robitzski

New NASA-led research calculated that on average, about one in two Sun-like stars in the Milky Way have exoplanets in their habitable zones.

Science & Energy

NASA: Half the Sun-like Stars in our Galaxy Have Potentially-Habitable Planets

By Dan Robitzski

New analysis of ancient Martian meteorites adds 400 million years to our historical knowledge of water on the surface of Mars.

Science & Energy

Martian Meteorites Show Red Planet Had Water Billions of Years Ago

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers can't definitively rule out the chance that the "God of Chaos" asteroid Apophis crashes into Earth when it returns in 2068.

Science & Energy

There’s a Chance This Giant Asteroid Will Smash Earth in 2068

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning extremely slowly compared to others.

Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole Seems to Be Chilling Out for Some Reason

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found some unusual activity coming from a Centaur, or a comet-liked planetary object that orbits deep in our solar system.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Found Unusual Activity on a “Centaur” Planetary Object

By Dan Robitzski

A "pristine" meteorite that landed in 2018 and was studied before it could be contaminated was chock-full of extraterrestrial organic compounds.

Science & Energy

Scientists: 2018 Michigan Meteorite Was Filled With Organic Compounds

By Dan Robitzski

NASA and the ESA have formally partnered up to develop the Gateway space station that will orbit the Moon as part of the Artemis program.

NASA and Europe Officially Sign Deal to Build Orbital Moon Base

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists took the closest look yet at Psyche, a massive asteroid orbiting our Sun that's thought to be a planetary core that got destroyed.

New Images Show Leftover Planetary Core Floating Between Mars and Jupiter

By Dan Robitzski

Johns Hopkins University political scientist Daniel Deudney warns that space exploration could give rise to a totalitarian empire — and human extinction.

Johns Hopkins Professor Warns of Totalitarian Military Space Empire

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists discovered what may be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet, though it's too far away to find out for sure.

Science & Energy

Finally, Scientists Find an Earth-Sized Exoplanet in Its Star’s Habitable Zone

By Dan Robitzski

The International Space Station crew had a rough night. The same day they finally found an air leak, an oxygen system, toilet, and oven all broke down.

The Space Station’s Toilet, Oven, and Air Supply All Broke Last Night

By Dan Robitzski

In what sounds like a strange act of divination, the current crew of the International Space Station just used tea leaves to identity the station's leak.

They Found the Space Station Leak… Using Tea Leaves

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is funding research toward a camera that can detach from a spacecraft and film it landing from the surface of another world.

NASA Wants a Moon Camera to Film Landing Spacecraft From the Lunar Surface

By Dan Robitzski

If a war were waged in space, it wouldn't look anything like Star Wars or Star Trek, reserachers argue. Any conflict would need to be planned in advance.

Experts: This Is What Actual Space Battles Will Be Like

By Dan Robitzski

Two massive pieces of space junk might crash into each other on Thursday night, potentially making low Earth orbit and even more dangerous minefield.

Science & Energy

Experts Predict Sizeable Chance of Epic Space Junk Collision Tonight

By Dan Robitzski

The ESA is experimenting with satellites that use flax fiber instead of steel-like carbon fibers so that they incinerate easier upon retirement.

The ESA Is Weaving Flax Fiber Into Satellites So They Incinerate Better

By Dan Robitzski

Through fortunate timing, the space probe BepiColombo is passing Venus tonight, just a month after scientists first found signs of potential life there.

Science & Energy

A Spacecraft Is Going to Hunt Life in Venus’ Clouds This Week

By Dan Robitzski

Astar about 215 million light-years from Earth got too close to a black hole, and got devoured in a process that scientists call "spaghettification."

Watch a Black Hole Suck Down an Entire Star Like a Spaghetti Noodle

By Jon Christian

China announced the next 18 astronauts that its space agency selected to serve on Tiangong-3, the space station planned for launch in the coming years.

China Names 18 More Crewmembers for Its Upcoming Space Station

By Dan Robitzski