Space Exploration

Featured Video Summaries The next great voyage of human exploration has already begun: the search for life on planets orbiting distant stars. With extraordinary CGI, the world’s most inspiring scientists, via extreme environments on Earth…

It’s been a big year for Uranus. We’ve learned quite a bit about the planet thanks to new research efforts aimed at explaining why it behaves dramatically different when compared to the other planets in…

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy continues to wow us with his brilliant photos. He recently pulled together an incredible, high-resolution image of the moon from 50,000 photographs. While working on that project, he took the opportunity to also create a…

Israel’s privately built Beresheet lunar lander is currently en route to the Moon—and tucked away on it is a small disk that’s crammed with 30 million pages of documents offering a primer on human knowledge. The…

You might be aware of one of Uranus’ complexities: It spins on its side, and its moons orbit on that same rotated plane. New evidence strengthens the case that Uranus was smashed in a giant…

Gliese 581d is a potentially habitable planet just 20 light-years away. In 20 years we could know if it delivers on that potential. DarinK/deviantART/CC License Exactly four centuries ago this year, Galileo sent a letter…

That’ll learn those asteroids to crash into our planet. If an asteroid was shooting towards Earth, what would our options be? Sure, we could send up a ragtag team of miners to drill into the…

The quantity of organic molecules discovered on Mars is not entirely explained by the hypothesis of cosmic dust: here is a new study. Asteroids and comets may have played a more important role than what…

A greasy and sticky substance emitted by the processes of stellar fusion permeates the space between one solar system and another: a study has tried to understand how much there is. The Space out there…

IN BRIEF The Facts:In 2002, Gary McKinnon hacked the Pentagon and Department of Defence in the largest publicly disclosed military computer hack of all time. He discovered strange ‘off world’ findings that hint the existence…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is on a mission like no other spacecraft has ever attempted before. Its currently speeding towards to sun in order to land the hottest ever high-five, effectively becoming the first spacecraft ever to attempt and ‘touch’…

Japanese space agency’s mission aims to uncover how moons of Mars formed The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced a mission to visit the two moons of Mars and return a rock sample to…

In comments that will likely fuel ardent Ufologists worldwide, a senior NASA official has conceded that the existence of alien life is “much more likely to be out there than we thought before.” Thomas Zurbuchen, an…