Space

What are those strange lights and shadows crossing the Earth? A full day on planet Earth is depicted as seen from Japan's Himawari-8 satellite in...

Did our sun have a doomsday twin when it was born? Almost certainly yes, though not an identical twin. And so did every other sunlike...

IS SPACE CREATING MUTANT CREATURES? Researchers sent flatworms aboard the International Space Station for 5 weeks to STUDY how an absence of normal gravity can...

On May 1st at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched a classified satellite (USA 276) for the US National Reconnaissance Office. On June 3rd, USA 276 made...

The source of the mysterious ‘Wow!’ space signal which has baffled astronomers for decades might finally have been found. A new study suggests that the signal...

New monster telescopes equipped with the latest super-sensitive, wide-field technology detectors has been a boon for astronomical discoveries. Astronomer Scott Sheppard has discovered two new...

An international research team has made the first ever detection of a baby star being fed with a dusty “hamburger” - dusty accretion disk...

The Cold War lasted about 45 years and some are saying it has never finished. While neither superpower ever deployed nukes on each others’ soil,...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft continues making history. NASA notes that the first few images sent back to Earth from Cassini are unprocessed, and it is unclear...

Scientists have found a vast tsunami wave of hot gas in the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster. The wave is about twice the size of our...

A new mysterious flash of X-rays detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is currently baffling scientists. The event as observed does not fit any known...

A new asteroid discovered on February 21, 2017 will shave Earth at 21:08 UTC on February 23, 2017. This 8-meter-large space rock is the fifth...

Even if you’re feeling a bit lonely here on Earth today, there is one heart that belongs to you, way, way out there in...

This is the first time they've ever seen this blue lightning shoot up like that. An amazing 245 blue flashes were recorded as the space station...

Skywatchers will enjoy a rare space triple-header Friday night and early Saturday morning... A "penumbra" lunar eclipse during the full "snow" moon... and the flyby...

The Earth is blanketed by a magnetic field. It’s what makes compasses point north, and protects our atmosphere from continual bombardment from space by...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2017 BH30 made the closest flyby since September 6, 2016 on January 30, 2017. 2017 BH30 belongs to Apollo group...

It's the big astrophysical whodunnit. Across the Universe, galaxies are being killed and the question scientists want answered is, what's killing them? Out there in the...

A Japanese spacecraft has spotted a massive gravity wave in Venus’ atmosphere. This is not the first time such a wave was observed on the...

A very bright something has appeared in the well-known and active galaxy Cygnus A. Astronomers are baffled by this newly discovered mysterious object twice as bright as the...

For the first time in history, parents will be able to point to a dark spot in the sky and say, ‘Watch, kids, there’s...

A mysterious type of radio wave from deep space, discovered only a decade ago, has been traced to a precise source for the first...

In a spectacular case of bad timing, the full Moon coincides with the annual Geminid meteor shower. Don't feel put out. There's still something for...

You have never seen Saturn's weird hexagon storm like this. NASA's Cassini spacecraft sent back more jaw-dropping photos of Saturn and its huge, bizarre hexagonal...

The mysterious space whistles, also known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) can pack a serious punch rivaling the stellar cataclysms known as supernovae in...

We may have just received our first communication from extraterrestrials. This is at least what two canadian astronomers searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence affirm. Anomalous signals from...

Astronomers have identified an increasing number of asteroids which “pose a threat” to Earth. The so-called Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs, are asteroids or comets whose...

These SWARM satellites were sent into orbit to measure the Earth's invisible magnetic field. But the scientific instruments have been suffering mysterious blackouts as they circle...

Scientists recently studied 21 mysterious space signals from revised Third Cambridge Catalogue. Researchers detected significant X-ray emissions for 9 radio sources, but none of these...

Did aliens just try to contact us? An unexplained blip picked up by a Russian telescope last year could be a message from a distant...

What is this mysterious glowing object moving in the sky of Russia on July 16, 2016? Could it be a UFO? A bright but slow...

In the summer of 1885, sky watchers around northern Europe noticed that sunsets weren’t the same any more. The red and orange colors they were...

The Hubble Space Telescope spotted the "dark vortex" in May, confirming an earlier report of the atmospheric structure. A similar vortex was encountered by NASA's...

On the morning of April 6, 2016, the Moon swallowed up Venus during an event called occultation by specialists. It was cloudy in Switzerland but...

The Moon-Jupiter conjunction on March 21, 2016, occurred in front of a train of Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds in the sky of Bariloche, Argentina. Watch these haunting...

The shockwave generated by the explosion of an ageing giant star has been observed by an international team of astronomers for the first time. A...

Jupiter lords over the March nighttime sky. And tonight it converges with the Moon. Here the first picture of this awesome sky phenomenon. Jupiter is the...

This amazing timelapse video sure will satisfy storm watchers around the world. ESA astronaut Tim Peake just shared this stunning video of rapid lightning strikes from Space. The footage,...

The parade of the planets is currently taking place in our solar system with five planets lining up for a cosmic dance that will...

Main stream media CONFIRMS "Planet X", the 9th planet in our solar system. Scientists have detected the gravity of a large, Neptune-sized planet beyond Pluto. They are...