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Latest in space

Extended trips in space could make the heart age faster, because it gets used to not having to work as hard in zero gravity.

Spending Time in Space Makes Your Heart Age Faster

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers suggest checking the surface of the Moon for ancient rocks that could have been blasted away from Venus during asteroid strikes.

Science & Energy

The Moon Might Be Littered With Ancient Shrapnel From Venus

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is now running underwater tests for the spacesuits it plans on using for the upcoming series of Artemis missions to the Moon.

NASA Is Now Testing Its Artemis Moon Landing Spacesuit

By Dan Robitzski

The International Space Station finally got is new space toilet, which crewmembers will test for several months before deciding if it should go to the Moon.

Science & Energy

The International Space Station Finally Got Its New Space Toilet

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified 24 distant exoplanets that all seem to have even better conditions for hosting life than Earth does.

Science & Energy

Astronomers: These 24 Exoplanets May Be Better for Life Than Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found a supermassive black hole slowly feasting on galaxies trapped nearby when the universe was still under a billion years old.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Spot Galaxies “Trapped” by Giant Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

The biotech company LambdaVision is launching a project to manufacture artificial retinas for blind patients out in space.

Biotech Company Plans to Manufacture Artificial Retinas in Space

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, a meteoroid briefly visited our planet before bouncing off our atmosphere like a stone skipping across a lake.

Science & Energy

Watch a Meteoroid Bounce Off the Earth’s Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists measured the mass of 1,800 galaxy clusters to get the most precise number for how much matter is in the universe yet.

Scientists Calculated How Much Matter Is in the Whole Universe

By Dan Robitzski

The Italian scientists who found an undergound lake beneath the south pole of Mars revisited their data — and uncovered three more.

Science & Energy

Scientists Just Found Three More Reservoirs of Liquid Water on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists say they've ascertained how radioactive the Moon is — a finding that could have implications for the future of space travel.

Bad News: The Moon Is Surprisingly Radioactive

By Jon Christian

Later this month, NASA is scheduled to launch an unusual payload — 10 bottles of a face cream by cosmetics company Estée Lauder.

NASA Is Using Its Astronauts to Help Promote a Cosmetics Company

By Jon Christian

After about a year, NASA and Roscosmos have just about narrowed down the source of the ongoing air leak on the International Space Station.

Science & Energy

NASA Says It’s Almost Found the Leak on the International Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

Space debris could pose an even bigger threat than we thought, thanks to new research that found smaller pieces of junk that were never cataloged.

Science & Energy

Research: Most Geosynchronous Space Junk Has Never Been Catalogued

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists think they may have discovered an exoplanet that resembles Saturn in another galaxy, but it could be decades before they know for sure.

Science & Energy

Scientists Claim to Find First-Ever Planet in Another Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

The idea of deep space explorers growing their own food just became more feasible with the discovery that worms can still hunt pests in microgravity.

Scientists: Worms Could Kill Pests on Space Vegetables

By Dan Robitzski

NASA and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory are launching a spacecraft to the far side of the Moon so it can listen to extremely faint radio signals.

NASA Is Heading to the Far Side of the Moon to Study the Ancient Universe

By Dan Robitzski

NASA and the U.S. Space Force just signed a formal agreement to collaborate on objectives ranging from space travel to planetary defense.

NASA and the US Space Force Are Officially Teaming Up

By Dan Robitzski

Earth will likely capture a new minimoon in its orbit later this year. But signs suggest that it's actually a hunk of space garbage.

Science & Energy

Earth Appears to Be Capturing a Tiny New Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers designed a new orbital space habitat that tries to accomodate everyday people rather than just specially-trained astronauts.

A New Space Habitat Design Simulates Gravity by Spinning

By Dan Robitzski

The SpaceX rideshare program is designed to launch small satellites into orbit. Here's what it would be like to hitch a ride.

Could I Climb Into a SpaceX Cargo Rideshare and Yeet Myself Into Space?

By Dan Robitzski

A study involving hundreds of Russian cosmonaut brain scans reveal how the brain temporariy changes after months in orbit.

Neuroscience and Brain

According to Scans, Astronaut Brains “Reorganize” During Space Travel

By Dan Robitzski

After checking 10 million stars for signs of a technological extraterrestrial civilization, a team of SETI scientists came back with nothing.

Scientists Search 10 Million Stars, See No Signs of Alien Civilization

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified a solar system with three stars that tore apart its own protoplanetary disc with the stars' bizarre orbits.

Science & Energy

A Three-Star System Ripped Apart Its Own Protoplanetary Disc

By Dan Robitzski

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative is now listening for radio transmissions from 200 times more star systems it was before.

Science & Energy

SETI Team Increases Number of Stars That Might Host Life by 200x

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have no idea what formed a series of bizarre ridges on the surface of Mars, and they're not confident in their guess.

Science & Energy

Scientists Still Baffled by Bizarre Martian Ridges

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that GEODEs, or imitation black holes full of dark energy, could be driving the universe's ongoing expansion.

Science & Energy

Physicists: Fake Black Holes Could Be Pulling the Universe Apart

By Dan Robitzski

A team of physicists speculate that a bizarre form of extraterrestrial life might be able to survive and rapidly evolve inside stars.

Scientists Say Life Could Survive Inside Stars

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA satellite from 1964 is going to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere for an extremely fiery retirement at some point this weekend.

Science & Energy

A NASA Satellite From the 1960s Is About to Die

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to powerful new lasers, scientists can now observe space debris orbiting the Earth during the daytime and better predict their paths.

Science & Energy

Scientists Saw Space Debris During the Day for the First Time

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just watched as a doomed sungrazer comet hurtled directly toward the Sun, ultimately crumbling apart along the way.

Science & Energy

This Dumbass Comet Just Flew Directly Into the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

According to some bizarre theoretical physics, the human-traversable wormholes from science fiction should be possible to create.

Physicists: Wormholes Large Enough to Travel Through Are Possible

By Dan Robitzski

In order to protect the Moon from destructive lunar mining operations, one scientists suggests granting the Moon legal personhood.

Scientist: We Should Grant the Moon Legal Personhood

By Dan Robitzski

The Arecibo Observatory, a staple of the SETI research community, will be out of commission for months after a supper cable mysteriously fell.

Science & Energy

SETI Telescope Down for Months After Mysterious Damage

By Dan Robitzski

A new NASA facility will communicate with distant spacecraft via lasers, vastly improving the bandwidth of interplanetary communications.

Science & Energy

NASA Facility Will Beam Messages to Space Through Lasers

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently put out a weird little cartoon that introduces kids to surprisingly complex topics like special relativity and the scale of the universe.

Video Shows NASA’s Bizarre Guide to Near-Light-Speed Travel

By Dan Robitzski

Once the James Webb Space Telescope launches, NASA plans to use it to take 3D images of distant quasars and their host galaxies.

Science & Energy

3D Space Images Could Reveal How Quasars Influence Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

An army of 100,000 volunteers have identifed almost 100 of a new class of frigid brown dwarf floating near our solar system.

Science & Energy

An Army of Citizen Scientists Found Nearly 100 Nearby Brown Dwarfs

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists want to improve our ability to forecast weather in space due to concerns that a solar storm could wipe out our entire electronic infrastructure.

Scientists Are Worried About Solar Storms Frying all our Electronics

By Dan Robitzski

The star S62 whips around the Milky Way's central black hole at a dizzying eight percent of lightspeed. It's so fast scientists can see time slow down.

Science & Energy

This Star Is Moving So Fast it Visibly Warps Spacetime

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just blew the distance record for long-range quantum-encrypted messages after beaming one down from a satellite in orbit.

Quantum Physics

Chinese Scientists Figured Out How to Beam Quantum Messages From Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is finally taking stock and getting rid of the various racist nicknames the space agency has granted objects in space over the years.

Science & Energy

NASA Says It Will Stop Using Racist Names for Space Objects

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists treated the Moon like a giant mirror to study the Earth's atmosphere, a trick they say could help search for inhabited worlds.

Science & Energy

Scientists Are Using The Moon as a Giant Mirror to Search For Aliens

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists suggest that the key to settling Mars or the Moon is hiding underground in lava tubes. Now we know the caverns are actually big enough.

Scientists: Martian Lava Tubes Large Enough to Fit Planetary Base

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists figured out how new exoplanets could form around a black hole. They've named the theoretical worlds "blanets."

Science & Energy

Astronomers Say That Planets Orbiting Black Holes Are Called “Blanets”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists thought exoplanets appeared bright in sky surveys because of reflective lava oceans, but new research shows something else has to be helping.

Science & Energy

Super-Earth Exoplanets Could Have Bright-Shining Metallic Atmospheres

By Dan Robitzski

Science & Energy

This Galaxy Cluster Is Spewing a Surplus of Stars Because of a Lazy Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

Studying the rings of photons swirling around the black hole Pōwehi can help scientists understand the history of the universe.

We May Be Able to Extract “Movies” of the Universe From Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA recently deployed a tiny camera satellite that the agency hopes can take sharp images of exoplanets that are usually washed out of pictures.

DARPA Deploys Tiny Satellite That Could Take Best Pictures of Space Ever

By Dan Robitzski

Before we can launch any long-term space travel, scientists will need to find away to protect against bacteria, which becomes deadlier in microgravity.

Oh Great: Space Travel Makes Bacteria Even Deadlier

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have a bizarre idea for protecting astronauts from cosmic rays: Shield them with the radiation-absorbing fungus near Chernobyl.

Fungus Growing at Chernobyl Could Protect Astronauts From Cosmic Rays

By Dan Robitzski

Russia recently tested a weapon capable of shooting down satellites in orbit, which has the Pentagon concerned about off-world escalation.

Russia Just Tested a Military Satellite That Kills Other Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

After decades of work, scienitsts revealed a complete map of the universe. In doing so, they also may have solved a major debate among astronomers.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Release Largest Map of the Universe in History

By Dan Robitzski

A class of exoplanets thought to resemble gas giants like Neptune may actually be rocky worlds covered in thick, heavily irradiated oceans.

Science & Energy

“Mini-Neptune” Exoplanets May Actually Be Covered in Radioactive Oceans

By Dan Robitzski

A company called HawkEye 360 is about to launch a cluster of satellites that hunt down pirates, smugglers, and poachers around the world.

SpaceX Is Launching a Fleet of Pirate-Hunting Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

Science & Energy

This Black Hole Just Glitched

By Dan Robitzski

With a bit of luck and great timing, astronomers managed to capture a fleeting gamma ray burst from ten billion years ago when its afterglow reached Earth.

Science & Energy

Two Neutron Stars Collided, Creating an Unbelievable Explosion

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI system named SPOCK (yes, we know) can predict the orbit of distant exoplanets to figure out if they're going to collide.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Predicts Which Planets Are Going to Smash Into Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

New models suggest that the Moon could be 85 million years younger than scientists thought, a development that would clarify some of its mysterious past.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say the Moon Is Way Younger than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

The UAE's upcoming weather satellite launch could help explain what's going on with Mars' bizarre, planet-consuming dust storms.

Tomorrow’s Mars Mission Could Explain the Red Planet’s Ferocious Dust Storms

By Dan Robitzski

Science & Energy

Astronomers Baffled by Mysterious Ring-Shaped Objects in Deep Space

By Dan Robitzski

If a spacecraft ferried passengers to new star systems, their language would evolve to the point of making communicating with Earth extremely difficult.

On an Interstellar Flight, Language Itself Would Evolve

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Pioneer Astronautics just got millions in funding from NASA to develop a way to extract oxygen from beneath the lunar surface.

Science & Energy

NASA Pumps Funding Into Startup That Says It Can Harvest Oxygen From Lunar Regolith

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a stream of 200 stars hurtling toward the center of the Milky Way, and they suspect they came from another galaxy.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Surprised to Find Stars Streaming Into the Center of Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski