space

Going up?

NASA scientists have discovered three factors that influence Earth’s rotational wobble. Thankfully, while the Earth may wobble, it won’t fall down.

The contestants would try to reach the end of the world, as they understand it.

At least he wasn’t burned at the stake, right?

Cryovolcanoes that eject ice instead of magma have been confirmed to exist on Ceres, which will help studying this formation on other planets and moons throughout the solar system.

Through computationally intensive computer simulations, researchers have discovered that “nuclear pasta,” found in the crusts of neutron stars, is the strongest material in the universe.

It deploys nets to capture useless space junk.

Traveling to Mars is going to be hard. Not going completely bonkers when we’re there may be even harder.

The billionaire is also inviting eight artists along with him. It would be the first time a civilian crew has participated in a mission to the moon.

The perspective on this is quite novel.

Colonel Chris Hadfield talks to us about the formalities that astronauts have to use, and how it can help us here on earth.

The universe is a huge place, inconceivably vast. And it can make even the most brilliant minds feel very, very small.

When you have the opportunity to take gravity away from the human body, the results are pretty fasninating.

Multi-messenger astronomy further widens our window to the universe.

“One small step for man” costs a lot of money. Who’s going to help pay the bill for the next bout of space exploration?

Digging deeper into last week’s revelations about the Red Planet.

Astronauts aren’t floating in space, they’re free falling—and so are you. Here’s the amazing science behind so-called zero gravity.

Think getting along with people that are nothing like you is hard? Here’s how astronauts do it, 254 miles above Earth on the ISS.

Is the world actually flat? Let’s ask someone who has some actual perspective on the subject… from space.

Sending a tiny spaceship to the nearest habitable planet at 20% of the speed of light? No problem, says theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.

Space is not the place to put waste, as it turns pretty much anything into a high-velocity projectile capable of causing incredible damage. 

Need more astronomical phenomena in your life? We’ve got you covered. 

What if entanglement also occurs across time? Is there such a thing as temporal nonlocality?  

Singer-songwriter Ryan O’Neal composes the songs of the cosmos.

The thick sheets of ice at these eight sites could provide the reservoir of water necessary for human expeditions to Mars. 

You can watch the Cosmos marathon right now, for free!

A groundbreaking experiment proves a key tenet of Einstein’s theory of gravity. 

For the first time, an object from outside our solar system is observed traveling through our neighborhood.

The establishment of a colony on Mars seems inevitable given just how many groups are drawing up plans for the red planet. NASA intends on sending manned expeditions in the […]

There’s only one guy on this whole planet who’s done both. He tells us what it’s like to experience two of the most extreme feats.