Space

A giant star is acting strange, and astronomers are buzzing. The red giant Betelgeuse is the dimmest seen in years, prompting some speculation that the star is about...

Rumbling quakes on the red planet have been traced back to Cerberus Fossae. This suggests this geologically young region is still alive and cracking.

What's going on now in space? A comparison of old and new star catalogs shows that some objects seem to have gone missing. Stars...

Something ironic is happening in Earth's atmosphere. Solar activity is very low. However atmospheric radiation is heading in the opposite direction and cosmic rays percolating through the air...

A former NASA astronaut recalled the incident when the Apollo 9 spacecraft almost got hit by an asteroid.

The shield that protects the Earth from solar radiation is under attack from within. We can’t prevent it, but we ought to prepare. Earth...

For six months, NASA has been chasing big plans to land humans near the south pole of the moon in 2024. That deadline came from Vice President Mike...

When the universe's most massive objects are crashing into each other... They leave a rain of gold and platinum behind them. The universe's most...

The eccentric CEO revives radical idea to make the red planet habitable by bombing the poles in bizarre tweet. Actually, Musk proposes using a nuclear weapon to...

Russia has launched its first humanoid robot into space. The robot is on a two-week mission to the International Space Station to support the crew and test his...

India doesn't only want to colonize Kashmir. They also want the moon. India rocket is already orbiting the moon to study the far...

In 1980 a small team of friends designed a matrix of mirrors a mile wide, in the shape of a human eye in the Mojave desert. The mirrors...

An international team of researchers has analyzed recent snow deposits in Antarctica and discovered the presence of a material that comes from outside our Solar System. And the...

Earth just got blasted with the highest-energy photons ever recorded. The gamma rays, which clocked in at well over 100 tera-electronvolts (10 times what LHC can produce) seem...

Astronomy and early solar formation theories remain mysterious for scientists. University of Manchester 1. Dark Matter May Be Older Than The Big Bang

Look at the below pictures and videos of this alien rocket launch in Florida. The Atlas V rocket carried a military satellite of the United States Air Force.

The phenomenon of magnetic pole reversal is when the magnetic north and south pole switch for hundreds of thousands of years before the process reverses itself. Sometimes the phenomenon...

Evidences proving the existence of an ancient ocean on early Mars are growing. New results show that the giant meteor responsible for the 75-mile Lomonosov crater may have...

About a quarter of the universe's mass consists of a mysterious, unseen substance called dark matter. And there's a chance that one form of it could behave...

Something dark is spreading across the surface of Titan... And we may finally have some idea what it is. Titan taken by the Cassini...

Frozen sperm samples can remain viable after exposure to microgravity conditions that are somewhat similar to those found in space, new research reveals. The findings suggests that at...

The NASA Curiosity rover made a remarkable discovery this week that may hint at signs of life on Mars. The surprising development brings legitimacy to the long-held notion...

The strongest magnet in the Universe enters our Solar System. What would happen? Sound in the...

The summer solstice, which marks the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, happens today, June 21 at 11:54 a.m. EDT (3:54 p.m. GMT). Now, how...

In most maps of the solar system, you can expect to see the eight canonical planets, plus whatever Pluto is at the moment, trailing the fiery orange sun like polite little ducklings in a...

So many strange things are happening on the Red Planet! NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured a mysterious glow on Mars. Meanwhile, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has discovered...

Starshade exoplanet-hunting missions may be technologically daunting. But they're not beyond NASA's reach! Such a mission would employ a space telescope and a separate craft flying about 25,000...

All year round, wispy blue clouds of ice form in the Martian atmosphere, hovering between 18 and 37 miles (30 and 60 kilometers) above the planet's surface. Decades after rovers...

Forget about the face on Mars or its pyramid! The most evocative thing yet discovered on the surface of the Red Planet is the Starfleet emblem from the fictional universe of Star Trek.

Our own Moon has one of the largest preserved craters in the Solar System, the South Pole-Aitken Basin, located on the far side of the satellite. The area is...

Jupiter reaches opposition on June 10, 2019 And with it, the largest planet in our solar system and its iconic Great Red Spot present us with a key...

Onboard the International Space Station (ISS), there is a fantastic experiment that is trying to understand what goes on inside neutron stars. The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, collects the X-ray light...

A huge amount of supernovae has been observed by a team of Japanese researchers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. In just six months of observations, they discovered 1,824...

There is a huge variety of planets in our galaxy. A particular class of planet that has been missing is the so-called hot Neptunes. These are planets bigger than Earth but smaller...

Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists detected a massive reservoir of frozen water sandwiched by layers of sand beneath the northern polar ice cap on Mars. This reservoir contains so much ice that, if...

What's going on Jupiter? Amateur astronomers around the world are reporting a strange phenomenon on the verge of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS). The giant storm appears to be unraveling. Long streamers...

Comet P67 is the most famous entity in the Kuiper belt after the Rosetta mission collected samples from its icy surface in 2014. Rosetta’s incredible findings showed organic molecules...

The methane mystery on Mars just got stranger. New results from ESA and Roscosmos' ExoMarsTrace Gas Orbiter, has unexpectedly not detected methane in the atmosphere of Mars. This result follows the 2013 detection...

Hubble measurements confirm there's something weird about how the universe is expanding. New results from the Hubble Space Telescope have deepened one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy....