A tiny crashed exploded above the skies of Africa on Saturday, June 2nd. It turns out, it had been discovered just hours before impact.
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The kilonova event that took place last year, where two neutron stars merged, is now believed to have formed a black hole.
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After reviewing data from the New Horizons mission, an international team of scientists determined that Pluto has dunes made of grains of methane
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Is there any way we can hope to communicate with aliens? Will they have a concept of language as we understand it, or something even more alien?
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A team of engineers from the University of Glasgow and the Ukraine have proposed a self-eating rocket as a way to cut the costs of individual launches.
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At this year's National Space Society's International Space Development Conference, Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon Prime would be picking up The Expanse.
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In a new study led by the Lowell Observatory, a team of researchers indicate how the next-generation Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) could find the elusive Planet 9 (Planet X)
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An international team of scientists recently created a unified model that shows what happens when stars are consumed by a Supermassive Black Hole.
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We're in the midst of a parade of planets crossing the evening sky. Jupiter reached opposition on May 9th, and sits high to the east at dusk. Mars heads towards a fine opposition on July 27th, nearly as favorable as the historic opposition of 2003. And Venus rules the dusk sky in the west after the setting Sun for most of 2018.
June is Saturn's turn, as the planet reaches opposition this year on June 27th, rising opposite to the setting Sun at dusk.
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Virgin Galactic recently conducted its second successful powered test flight of the VSS Unity, bringing the company one step closer to its goal of space tourism.
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Footage obtained from Bill Ingall's melted camera shows exactly how flames triggered by the launch it was covering consumed the camera
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A team of Canadian astronomers viewed an eclipsing binary pulsar and used the gas as an "interstellar lens" to capture the most high-resolution observations of a pulsar ever.
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A new study conducted by researchers from the Southwest Research Institute indicates that Pluto could have formed from a billion comets
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Two upcoming missions - NASA's Parker Solar Probe and the ESA's Solar Orbiter - will get closer to the Sun than ever before in the hopes of unlocking its secrets.
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