Throughout history, ancient civilizations have gazed at the night sky in awe of sudden bursts of light- supernovae- unaware that they...

Since the Apollo program which landed the first humans on the Moon, we have not yet returned to our satellite friend in person. The...

In 2014, ‘Interstellar’ graced the screens, starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain. This science fiction...

A spacesuit is far more than mere clothing for astronauts during spacewalks; it functions as a fully equipped, one-person spacecraft....

Kaushiki Mittal, Astronomy and Space Science Have you ever wondered how the cold, dark void of space is transformed into stunning images...

Joy Marcotte, Astronomy & Space Science Black holes, easily the most mysterious entities in the cosmos. Black holes have destroyed what...

Pic: Matthew Twombly What are they?  In celestial mechanics, Lagrange Points are positions in space where the gravitational forces of a...

Since the space race, sending humans to Mars has been a major focus. From NASA's Mariner 4 in 1964 to the Perseverance rover in 2020,...

How long will we stay on Earth? Will we ever move to the moon or Mars? As elusive as this sounds, there are benefits to building...

Are we alone? Does life exist outside of the solar system? Where is everybody?  These are some of the biggest questions that remain...

Born from the stellar remnants of a super massive star, neutron stars are highly dense astronomical objects with the diameter of about a...

Enjoy these captivating images of deep space? This one was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, one of the most advanced space...

In recent years, our skies have been adorned with a mesmerizing display of nature's light show, the aurora borealis, captivating...

“I’m an astrophysicist!” “Okay, I’m a Gemini!” It is in our best interest to avoid this awkward situation. Although the two words look...

Although it seems like a futuristic concept, you could take a quick vacation to outer space! A summer in space has been going around...

Other than the North and South Poles, have you seen or heard of breathtaking auroras appearing in the skies? These auroras are a result...

Physicists from Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have generated an atomic...

We know that the satellites, which give us GPS, weather data, and more, are WAY up there in space, orbiting the earth. But did you know...

An extrasolar planet, often called an exoplanet, is a planet that exists outside our Solar System. Currently, there are over 5,572...

For centuries, scientists mandated that there were no boundaries on how fast an object could move in space, until Einstein proved that...