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China, the UAE, and the U.S. all plan to launch Mars missions this month to capitalize on the planets' fortunate alignment.

Three Separate Countries Are Launching Mars Missions This Month

By Dan Robitzski

An Arizona forest fire has grown so large that satellites can easily see it from space, according to a new post by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

This Forest Fire Was So Huge, NASA Spotted It From Space

By Jon Christian

The team at Firefly Aerospace used one of its rocket engines to try to light all those pesky candles on a birthday cake for its co-founder Max Polakov.

Watch These Mad Geniuses Light Birthday Candles With a Rocket Engine

By Jon Christian

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Exact Center of the Solar System

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Exact Center of the Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre celestial object too big to be a neutron star but too small for a black hole could undo the rules astrophysicsts use to understand the universe.

Scientists Are Baffled By a Bizarre Black Hole-Like Object

By Dan Robitzski

When astronomers went to update their models for a giant, bright star, they instead found an empty space where it used to be.

Science & Energy

A Giant Star Appears to Have Winked Out of Existence

By Dan Robitzski

Omega Ingredients, a UK-based natural flavors company for the food and beverages industry, has created a fragrance that it claims smells like outer space.

Science & Energy

Someone Made a Perfume That Smells Like Outer Space

By Victor Tangermann

During an early-morning spacewalk, one of the wrist mirrors on NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy's spacesuit broke off almost immediately.

Science & Energy

A Piece of a NASA Astronaut’s Spacesuit Just Fell Off During a Spacewalk

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently discovered an exoplanet the size of Neptune that whips around its star nearly once per week, all while being bombarded by solar storms.

Science & Energy

NASA Finds Neptune-Sized Planet Whipping Around Star Every Week

By Dan Robitzski

In the coming years, NASA plans to crash a SpaceX rocket into a tiny moon as a test run for diverting asteroids. But the moon's name was way too boring.

Science & Energy

NASA Renames Small Moon It Plans to Smash With SpaceX

By Dan Robitzski

The just-launched "Lunar Loo Challenge" tasks amateur rocket scientists to come up with a toilet that can handle near-zero and Moon gravity.

NASA Says It Needs a New Space Toilet for the Artemis Moon Missions

By Victor Tangermann

Composer Brian Eno took recordings of the acoustic waves given off by stars and sped them up into a haunting new arrangement.

Science & Energy

This Music Made by Stars Is Actually Extremely Beautiful

By Dan Robitzski

NASA announced today that it's renaming its Washington, DC headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black engineer in the space program.

NASA to Rename HQ After “Hidden Figures” Engineer Mary W. Jackson

By Jon Christian

Chondrules, mysterious spherical bubbles found in meteorites, could have an incredibly-hellish origin story from the beginning of the solar system.

Science & Energy

Planets With Oceans of Lava May Have Given Us Meteorites

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's New Horizons space probe is so far away from Earth that it can see stars from entirely different angles than ever before.

Science & Energy

NASA Spacecraft so Far Away It Can See Stars from Different Angle

By Dan Robitzski

When it comes time to stop a killer asteroid, scientists suggest tethering it to a second asteroid to send it away, just like tying shoelaces together.

Science & Energy

New Plan to Deflect Killer Asteroids: Tie Their Shoelaces Together

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have long suggested that the arrangement of galaxies through the universe was steered by something called quantum static. Now they can test it.

Quantum Physics

Strange Theory: Entire Universe Structured by “Quantum Static”

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, an unusual fireball streaked across the sky over Australia, leaving astronomers wondering whether they saw an incinerating satellite or a meteor.

Science & Energy

Watch a Mysterious Blue Fireball Scream Over Australia

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers probing the night sky for signs of dark energy discovered almost 21,000 new, extremely-dim galaxies.

Dark Energy Researchers Discover Nearly 21,000 New Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

According to retired NASA astronaut Thomas Jones, the global failure to contain COVID-19 could be a teachable moment for asteroid impact planning.

Science & Energy

Astronaut: Killer Asteroid Plan Must Be Better Than COVID Response

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are closing in on a 13-billion-year-old signal from the "dark age" of the universe, an ancient era from before stars had formed.

Science & Energy

Scientists Hunting For Signs of the “Dark Age” Before Stars Formed

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre star system: a collapsed pulsar and white dwarf binary orbiting a second white dwarf, upheld a major tenet of Einstein's general relativity.

Collapsed Star Proves Another of Einstein’s Theories

By Dan Robitzski

In order to give high-energy researchers better working conditions, one physicist proposes building a particle collider on the Moon.

This Madlad Wants to Build a Particle Collider on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just discovered that Saturn's moon Titan is creeping out into space 100 times faster than they previously thought it was.

Science & Energy

Saturn’s Moon Titan Is Drifting Off Into Space, NASA Says

By Dan Robitzski

The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx recently flew near the surface of the asteroid Bennu to map out alternative landing sites for its sample collection mission.

Science & Energy

NASA Snaps Closeup Shots of Potential Asteroid Landing Site

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists under lockdown revisited an Einstein ring discovered in 1987 to fill in some of the gaps in our understanding of space.

Science & Energy

This Quasar Warps Itself Into a Ring by Distorting Spacetime

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a star that resembles our Sun so nearly that it's almost like a mirror of our solar system.

Astronomers Discover “Mirror Image” of Our Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists think the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua might actually be a hydrogen iceberg. The unusual idea could explain its stranger properties.

Science & Energy

Interstellar Visitor May Be One of Rarest Objects In Universe

By Dan Robitzski

One of the earliest examples of space travelers becoming ill was during the Apollo 7 mission in 1968, when astronaut Wally Schirra got a bad head cold.

When Astronauts Got Sick on an Apollo Mission, It Was a Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

At long last, scientists think they've accounted for the half of all the luminous matter in the universe that's been missing for decades.

Science & Energy

Half the Visible Universe Was Missing. Scientists Just Found It.

By Dan Robitzski

A stunning new NASA animation shows how solar winds are interacting with Mars' magnetosphere to strip away the planet's atmosphere.

Science & Energy

This Video of Mars’ Leaking Atmosphere Could Make Elon Musk Cry

By Dan Robitzski

The Elon Musk-led spaceflight company is teasing newambitions — with a line on its site inviting questions about a "private passenger" program.

SpaceX Is Teasing Mysterious “Private Passenger” Spaceflights

By Jon Christian

An advanced telescope currently being built in Australia will give astronomers a far more detailed glimpse of cosmic events.

Science & Energy

New Telescope Will Watch Entire Southern Sky in Infrared

By Dan Robitzski

Astronaut pee may be a priceless resource on future Moon settlements. It turns out it makes for a phenomenal building material.

On the Moon, the Real Gold Might Be Human Urine

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is working on simplified, scaled-down nuclear reactors that it hopes will power future settlements on the Moon and Mars.

Scientists Want to Build Nuclear Reactors to Power Moon Colony

By Dan Robitzski

In order to make space missions cheaper and safer, Japan is considering replacing astronauts with humanoid telepresence robots.

Japanese Startup Wants to Replace Astronauts With Space Robots

By Dan Robitzski

In order to equip future Martian settlers, scientists suggest altering their DNA to give them the traits they need to survive.

Astrobiologist: We Should Gene-Hack New Traits Into Mars Settlers

By Dan Robitzski

A new animation by JAXA planetary scientist James O'Donoghue shows just how slow the speed of light is on a cosmic scale.

Planetary Scientist’s Video Shows How Slow Light Speed Really Is

By Dan Robitzski

A delightful new video shows Apollo astronauts falling over in their bulky spacesuits, unaccustomed to the Moon's weak gravity.

Rejoice In This Supercut of Moon Astronauts Falling Over

By Jon Christian

NASA's new Artemis Accords serve as a set of guidelines for both governments and private companies to peacefully operate in space.

NASA: Please Follow These Space Rules We Can’t Enforce

By Dan Robitzski

The newly-minted US Space Force launched a secretive Boeing spacecraft this weekend, loaded with military and NASA equipment.

US Space Force Launches Secretive Spacecraft

By Jon Christian

In a stroke of incredible luck, a NASA/ESA spacecraft is on the right pass to fly right through the tail of a passing comet.

Science & Energy

Research Spacecraft May Pass Through Tail of Dead Comet

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that a certain class of star gives off rhythmic pulsations that are similar to a person's heartbeat.

Science & Energy

Astronomers: Some Stars Have Something Akin to a Heartbeat

By Dan Robitzski

In order to protect future Mars settlers from deadly cosmic radiation, researchers suggest building homes in underground tunnels called lava tubes.

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Perfect Spot for a Mars Colony

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA is preparing to launch the first experimental satellite of its Blackjack network, which would function like a military version of SpaceX's Starlink.

DARPA Is About to Launch a Military Version of SpaceX’s Starlink

By Dan Robitzski

After spending about a week in Earth's orbit, the core stage of China's Long March 5 rocket is now plummeting towards our planet's surface.

A Massive Chinese Rocket Is Plummeting Out of the Sky Right Now

By Victor Tangermann

A beautiful new infrared image of Jupiter makes the entire gassy planet look like it's turned into a giant, swirling fireball.

Science & Energy

Amazing Image of Jupiter Looks Like It’s Burning

By Dan Robitzski

An astrophysicist thinks that the mysterious Planet Nine may really be a six centimeter-wide black hole. And he has a plan to finally find it.

Science & Energy

A Black Hole May Be Orbiting Our Sun. This Guy Wants to Find It.

By Dan Robitzski

The experimental spacecraft China launched earlier this week successfully and safely landed Friday, paving the way for crewed space exploration.

China Lands Moon-Bound Spaceship After 3-Day Orbital Joyride

By Dan Robitzski

On May 16, the U.S. Space Force will launch a mysterious X-37B space plane on its second-ever mission, which officials say will help NASA conduct research.

The Space Force Is About to Launch a Mysterious Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered bizarre stripes of storm clouds blanketing a brown dwarf "star" with an old technique that's relevant again thanks to new tech.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Brown Dwarf Covered in Stripes

By Dan Robitzski

China just successfully tested the spacecraft that it plans to use when the time comes to send crewmembers up to its next space station.

China Tests Spacecraft That Will Send a Crew to its Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers are developing smart lunar habitats that can autonomously sense damage and repair themselves on a future moon settlement.

These Self-Repairing Lunar Habitats Could Help Settle the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Tom Cruise and SpaceX are reportedly partnering up to make a movie that would be the first feature film ever shot in space.

Tom Cruise Partners With SpaceX to Film Movie in Space

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers are baffled by why our Sun is so quiet compared to similar stars. One guess is that it's having a sort of "midlife crisis" transition.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Warn That Our Sun Is Having a “Midlife Crisis”

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers say they may be able to search for signs of life on distant exoplanets that are orbiting collapsed, dead stars.

Science & Energy

Scientists Want to Hunt for Life on Long-Dead Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists built and tested an experimental rocket engine that's powered by a constantly-spiraling explosion.

Science & Energy

Scientists Build Rocket Engine Powered by Spiraling Explosions

By Dan Robitzski

The White House's 2021 budget would cripple NASA's ongoing and future Mars missions. It would also mean shutting down the Curiosity rover.

Science & Energy

The White House Is Trying to Shut Down NASA’s Last Mars Rover

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found a rare, near-death experience play out in space where a black hole devoured the outer layers of a star but left the core intact.

Science & Energy

Black Hole Devours Outside of Star, Leaves Core Behind

By Dan Robitzski

After studying a population of asteroids called the Centaurs for years, a team of scientists believes they originated outside the solar system.

19 Objects Near Jupiter May Be From Outside the Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

Advanced simulations suggest that supernovae in the center of the Milky Way galaxy are shooting nearby stars all the way to its outer reaches.

Science & Energy

Astronomers: Our Galaxy Is Belligerently Flinging Stars Into Space

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found a quasar that's giving off uncharacteristically, mind-bendingly fast winds unlikely anything they'd ever seen before.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Spot Strongest Cosmic Storm in Known Universe

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, two commercial spacecraft successfully docked while still in orbit: a service vehicle got a derelict satellite running again.

Science & Energy

Parasitic Spacecraft Docks With Dead Satellite, Brings It Back to Life

By Dan Robitzski

Three astronauts who went to the International Space Station before the pandemic began are about to come home to a significantly changed society.

Astronauts Who Launched Before Pandemic Are Starting to Come Home

By Dan Robitzski