A meteorite from a galaxy far, far away touched down in Australia just in time for the New Year. Well, it’s likely to have come from the meteor belt between Mars and Jupiter, but that’s still a pretty healthy distance. … Read More
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Runaway stars speeding through the galaxy aren’t exactly easy to find, but luckily, they leave some clues that space-based telescopes can catch and beam back to Earth NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer … Read More
Virgin Galactic is one step closer to taking hundreds of rich people — and possibly Stephen Hawking — to suborbital space. Richard Branson’s spaceflight company will unveil a highly anticipated redesigned version of SpaceShipTwo, which is designed to take space … Read More
You can ring in the new year with some celestial fireworks, courtesy of the iconic Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has taken a colorful photo of the galaxy NGC 6052, which lies about 230 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules … Read More
Tim Peake has been busy up at the International Space Station. If he hasn’t been practising his backward rolls, he’s been accidentally calling random people on Earth or tweeting at Elton John — and occasionally getting some science done. Now, … Read More
The U.S. Postal Service is looking to the cosmos for inspiration in its latest collections of stamps. The agency’s lineup of stamps for the new year includes a collection commemorating the 50th anniversary of the original Star Trek series, a … Read More
From the drug lord who pulled off an impossible escape to an extraterrestrial ocean containing clues to alien life, here are the baffling mysteries the world will try to solve this year. WTF space junk: What was that debris? A … Read More
While you were celebrating New Years Eve, Elon Musk was assessing the damage to SpaceX’s recently landed Falcon 9 rocket. OK, we don’t know that for sure, but the SpaceX founder did tweet a closeup image of the rocket shortly … Read More
There is growing interest in Europe to prioritize the moon as humanity’s next deep-space destination. The moon, supporters say, can serve as a springboard to push the human exploration of the solar system, with Mars as the horizon goal. So … Read More
Every day people are coming up with new and interesting ways to pop the big question. Sending a ring to space, however, is a new one. Using a perfectly good wooden spatula and a weather balloon as a spaceship, Shawn … Read More