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The Hera mission is officially underway to investigate the aftereffects of DART, NASA's successful planetary defense test.

Europe Deploys Spacecraft to Investigate Extraterrestrial “Crash Scene”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Astronomers have made a "baffling" discovery: the most distant rotating disc galaxy ever observed that closely resembles our own.

This Ancient “Rebel” Galaxy Closely Mirroring the Milky Way Has Astronomers Freaked Out

By Victor Tangermann

There’s Something Seriously Weird About This Supernova

There’s Something Seriously Weird About This Supernova

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two woman astronauts had to stay behind to make space for their stranded Starliner colleagues, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

Grounded Astronauts Angry They Were Forced to Give Up Their Seats for Stranded Starliner Crew

By Victor Tangermann

The sub-Earth mass planet was spotted in orbit around Barnard's star, a red dwarf that is only six light years away.

Astronomers Spot Mysterious Planet Orbiting the Closest Single Star

By Frank Landymore

An oddly shaped — and "potentially hazardous — asteroid the size of a skyscraper sure looks like an oversized peanut.

Radar Images Show Large Object Drifting Past Earth

By Frank Landymore

An amateur astronomer has spotted and taken images of a secretive Pentagon spacecraft whose purpose is unknown.

Man Spots Secret US Military Spacecraft With Amateur Telescope

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is vowing to sue the Federal Aviation Administration after they slapped him with violating certain arcane regulations.

Elon Musk, Who Brutally Mocked Jeff Bezos’ Space Company for Suing the Government, Is Now Suing the Government With His Own Space Company

By Sharon Adarlo

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer probe has spotted a habitable planet astonishingly close to us.

Rejoice! Spacecraft Confirms That Earth Is a Habitable Planet

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's Starlink satellites aren't just physically junking up Earth's orbit, but are actually interfering with radio telescopes.

Astronomers Say Elon Musk’s Vast Network of Satellites Is Blocking More and More of the Night Sky

By Noor Al-Sibai

The astronauts currently stranded due to technical issues with Boeing's Starliner space capsule plan to cast their vote in November.

Stranded Astronauts Say They’ll Vote From Space

By Sharon Adarlo

According to a pair of new studies, a passing star could have scraped the outer limits of the Solar System billions of years ago.

A Star Appears to Have Come Closer to Earth Than the Voyager Probes

By Frank Landymore

There's a chance that the 1,100 foot long asteroid Apophis could hit our planet after all, if it gets nudged by another asteroid.

Will This Killer Asteroid Hit Earth in 2029? Scientists Say They’ll Know for Sure by 2027

By Frank Landymore

Late Friday night, NASA's plagued Starliner spacecraft finally made it back to the ground. A new thruster failed.

Starliner Suffers New Problems While Coming Back to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

An astrophysicist's TikTok video about gas in galaxy clusters went viral – but because kids were looking for a different kind of galaxy gas.

Astrophysicist Surprised to Learn Why Her TikTok on “Galaxy Gas” Was Suddenly Blowing Up

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.

Scientists Intrigued by Signs of Hidden Ring of Objects at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Researchers suggest the outer boundary of the Milky Way may stretch much farther than initially thought and is already touching Andromeda.

Our Galaxy Appears to Be Touching Another Galaxy, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

The hatch of Boeing's plagued Starliner is officially closed. The spacecraft is set to make its return just after 6 pm EDT today.

Hatch Shut to Send Troubled Starliner Home With No Astronauts on Board

By Victor Tangermann

A unique startup claims it will soon let people buy spots of sunlight reflected with a giant satellite mirror.

Startup Says It’ll Use Huge Space Mirror to Sell Sunlight During Nighttime

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers say they've calculated the underlying cosmological parameters of the universe using an AI model.

Scientists Calculate “Settings” of the Universe Using AI

By Frank Landymore

Scientists in China have discovered a shockingly simple trick to extract large quantities of water from lunar soil.

Chinese Scientists Extract Water From Lunar Soil

By Noor Al-Sibai

Russian senior citizens recently gathered for an unusual message for President Vladimir Putin: bring those American astronauts home!

Russians Call on Putin to Rescue Stranded Space Station Astronauts

By Sharon Adarlo

A UFO whistleblower who claims that the government is hiding knowledge of extraterrestrials is doubling down on his claims in a new memoir.

Government Whistleblower Says There Was a Secret Pentagon Program to “Trap” UFOs

By Noor Al-Sibai

A rocket exploded yesterday during a test in the UK's Shetland islands, resulting in a massive fireball that engulfed the entire launchpad.

Rocket Explodes in Epic Fireball During Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ESA's JUICE probe is about to slingshot past Earth and the Moon on its way to Jupiter in what the agency is calling a "double world first."

Spacecraft to Scream Past Earth in a “Double World First” Slingshot Flyby

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have captured a object that's traveling so fast — one million miles per hour — that it's projected to leave the Milky Way Galaxy.

Amateur Astronomers Spot an Object Hurtling by at 1 Million MPH

By Sharon Adarlo

A public interest group is calling on governments to conduct an environmental review into mega constellations like SpaceX's Starlink.

Elon Musk Slammed for Filling Orbit With Space Junk

By Victor Tangermann

An amateur Austrian space photographer has managed a difficult feat — capturing imagery of China's secretive Shenlong spaceplane.

Amateur Spacewatcher Uses Telescope to Spot Secret Chinese Spaceplane in Orbit

By Noor Al-Sibai

China has deployed its first batch of satellites as it seeks to rival SpaceX's Starlink communications megaconstellation.

China Launches First Portion of Satellite Megaconstellation

By Noor Al-Sibai

The signal could help explain why an explosion called a gamma ray burst appeared to be the most powerful ever detected.

Scientists Find Hidden Signal in Epic Cosmic Explosion

By Frank Landymore

Astronauts on the International Space Station sent well wishes to the folks competing at the 2024 Olympics — with a zero-G take on the Games.

Astronauts Hold Their Own Olympics on Board Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In 2020, researchers announced the discovery of phosphine in Venus' clouds, a possible sign of life. They're back with new data.

These Scientists Were Shamed for Claiming Signs of Life on Venus, But Now They’re Back With More Evidence

By Victor Tangermann

China's mysterious Shenlong spacecraft may be doing more than just testing out its spacefaring capabilities, experts warn.

Chinese Spacecraft Has Secret Military Use, Experts Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronaut Shows Photo He Shot in Space That Would Be Impossible to Take Now

Astronaut Shows Photo He Shot in Space That Would Be Impossible to Take Now

By Victor Tangermann

The deep and dazzling layer of diamond on Mercury could help explain the existence of the planet's magnetic field.

Mercury Has an Eleven-Mile-Thick Layer of Diamonds, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

The Perseid meteor shower is back, and it's guaranteed to bring one of the best celestial light shows you'll see this year.

If You Look Up Tonight, There’s a Beautiful Meteor Shower Right Now

By Frank Landymore

An $800-million-dollar space telescope has been damaged by a tiny piece of space debris that's said to be smaller than a grain of sand.

Expensive Space Telescope Damaged by Small Space Rock

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers suggest that invisible masses may be passing in front of pulsars, temporarily blocking their light pulses.

Massive, Mysterious Objects Detected Floating Through Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have presented new evidence for the presence of two gases that are closely related to life on Earth in the atmosphere of Venus.

Scientists Spot Possible Signs of Life in Clouds of Venus

By Victor Tangermann

A former ESA director and a former NASA administrator argue that we should boost the space station's orbit as a gift to future generations.

Former Space Agency Leaders Horrified by Plan to Destroy Space Station, Say It Would Be Easier to Save It

By Victor Tangermann

Dark comets, which are cross between an asteroid and comet, can make up as much as 60 percent of near-Earth objects.

Earth Surrounded by Dark Comets, Astronomers Claim

By Sharon Adarlo

Astronaut Photographs Glowing Orbs Far Below Space Station

Astronaut Photographs Glowing Orbs Far Below Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have published a new paper in the journal Nature about an exoplanet called HD 189733b, which smells like rotten eggs.

Scientists Say This Nasty Planet Stinks to High Heaven

By Sharon Adarlo

Two astronauts ventured outside of China's Tiangong space station to armor its exterior against incoming space debris.

China Fortifies Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts believes the two Starliner astronauts are not stuck on the ISS and that the extra time is a good thing.

Former Astronaut Explains How the Astronauts Stranded in Space Might Be Feeling

By Victor Tangermann

Reserachers are suggesting a new model that could explain why the dead remains of stars start unexpectedly glitching or speeding up.

Astronomers Baffled After Zombie Star Remains Start “Glitching”

By Victor Tangermann

China is planning to send an satellite into orbit that will then study and smash to bits a nearby asteroid in a test mission to defend Earth.

China Planning to Smash Asteroid in Planetary Defense Test

By Sharon Adarlo

We're just not good enough at complicated ways space junk falls through the atmosphere, even stuff that's designed to burn-up.

Experts Warn That We’re Vastly Underestimating the Threat of Falling Space Junk

By Frank Landymore

During a test launch, a Chinese company accidentally launched one of its rockets, which crashed spectacularly into a nearby mountain.

Chinese Rocket Accidentally Launches During Test, Soars Over City and Crashes Into Mountain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronauts on board the ISS were forced to shelter inside their respective spacecraft after reports indicated a nearby satellite broke up.

Astronauts Sheltered in Escape Vehicles as Debris Menaced Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers suggest the collapse of a warp drive bubble could be detectable in the form of gravitational waves.

Alien Warp Drives May Have Left Trails Through Space, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Images and a terrifying video circulating on social media show Chinese rocket parts crashing down over a village in southwest China.

Huge Chinese Rocket Parts Fall on Village, Spewing Toxic Chemicals

By Victor Tangermann

Stars at the Milky Way's center stay young forever, scientists claim, by feeding off dark matter particles that are abundant there.

Something Strange Appears to Be Powering “Immortal” Stars at the Center of Our Galaxy

By Sharon Adarlo

In the age of UFO disclosure, one group is urging presidents to declassify it all — and wants debate moderators to get in on the action, too.

New Campaign Urges Presidential Debate Moderators to Ask Candidates About UFOs

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the aperture doors covering one of the XRISM space telescope's particle-detecting instrument called Resolve has remained jammed.

Door Is Jammed on Expensive Space Telescope, Blocking Its View of Space

By Victor Tangermann

A repeating radio signal from deep space has scientists puzzled, because they can't fully explain what's emitting it.

Scientists Intrigued by Signal From Space Repeating Every Hour

By Frank Landymore

After her husband died, one woman found the perfect way to send off his cremated remains after discovering space burial company Celestis.

Widow Astonished by Options After Husband Dies: “Space?! I Can Shoot Him Into Space?”

By Victor Tangermann

Sierra Space's Dream Chaser spaceplane arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center last week in preparation for its maiden voyage to the ISS.

A Real-Life “Star Wars”-Style Spacecraft Is Preparing for Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Last month, China sent four zebrafish to its space station Tiangong. And so far, the fish are thriving in the microgravity environment.

Fish on Board China’s Space Station Are Doing Swimmingly, Confused as Hell

By Sharon Adarlo

Akatsuki, JAXA's Venus probe and the only spacecraft in orbit around the planet, suddenly fell out of contact in late April.

Japan’s Venus Probe Goes Mysteriously Missing

By Frank Landymore

The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has revealed some of the saddest parts of our dark Universe.

Astronomers Find Lonely Starless Planets That Drift Through the Darkness of Space All by Themselves

By Noor Al-Sibai

The same sunspot responsible for the epic geomagnetic storm earlier this month just came back into view and immediately let loose.

The Sun Just Unleashed Yet Another Fierce Solar Flare, and It’s Only Getting Started

By Frank Landymore

Japanese scientists have completed the world's first wooden satellite, dubbed LignoSat. It's slated to head to the ISS in September.

Japanese Scientists Show Off World’s First Wooden Satellite

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The lava flows were formed by recent volcanic eruptions, providing some of the best evidence yet that Venus is still geologically active.

Astronomers Spot Epic Flows of Lava Oozing Out of Venus

By Frank Landymore