Editors' Picks
Star Trek Got Warp Speed All Wrong
Hold everything people. The blast of a star and light that happens in Star Trek when they jump to warp speed? Wrong! It wouldn't look like that at all, according to some physicists
At Night, Giant Fields of Burning Natural Gas Make North Dakota Visibile From Space
Locals have a new nickname for their state. North Dakota: "Kuwait on the Prairie"
You Can’t Throw a Rock in the Milky Way Without Hitting an Earth-Like Planet
A new estimate says there are 17 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way
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Debris shed by the legendary Halley's comet could make for an impressive meteor show
October 19, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
A new type of evidence found in lunar rocks indicates that an enormous collision between a young Earth and a Mars-sized object formed the moon
October 17, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Comet C/2012 S1(ISON) could become the brightest comet anyone alive has ever seen
September 28, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
A special adaptation allows the tiny animal known as the tardigrade to curl up into a dry, lifeless ball and survive for decades
September 11, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Rovers that ride winds on Venus, robots that roll like tumbleweeds and other wild ideas for exploring space.
September 07, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
The moon won't actually be blue in color, so where did this strange term originate?
August 29, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
New telescopes are allowing us to look at space more accurately than ever – and what they uncover could change our world
September 2012
| By Timothy Ferris
Of the hundreds of exoplanets discovered by scientists, we list of some of the most interesting
August 14, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
NASA has produced an app that helps scientists and amateurs alike keep track of time on the Red Planet
August 09, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
The mobile laboratory will learn about the red planet's climate and geology, hoping to determine whether it once could have supported life
August 02, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
The discovery of a fifth moon circling Pluto has some questioning where the "dwarf planet" category still applies to this faraway member of the Solar System
July 16, 2012
| By Sarah Zielinski
NASA wouldn't opt to expose astronauts to a 19 percent increased risk of cancer, but there's no telling what a reality TV show would do
June 20, 2012
| By Sarah Zielinski
The Hubble Space Telescope shows that we're on a collision course with the nearby Andromeda galaxy—and set to crash in about 4 billion years
June 11, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
If you didn't have a chance to see yesterday's astronomical event, watch this NASA video to see what all the fuss is about
June 06, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
What are those burning questions about the cosmos that still baffle astronomers today?
May 08, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
The renowned physicist enjoyed the sensation of weightlessness while 24,000 feet over the Atlantic
May 11, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Space shuttle Enterprise heads for Manhattan
April 27, 2012
| By airspacemag.com
From a whale song to a kiss, the time capsule sent into space in 1977 had some interesting contents
April 23, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
New data show that nearly 35 years after their launches, NASA's Voyager probes are now at the outermost reaches of the solar system
April 24, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
A group of big-name tech billionaires wants to open up a new frontier in space--mining space rocks.
April 23, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Get a sneak peak at the new project that will search for mysterious cosmic energies that drive our universe
May 2012
| By Mark Strauss
With the spacecraft poised to leave our solar system, the writer who helped compile the time capsules they carry reflects on our deepest foray into outer space
May 2012
| By Timothy Ferris
A new survey of a slice of the distant reaches of the universe reveals 200,000 galaxies
March 30, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Saturn's Enceladus is spurting water vapor, organic material and salt—a microbe-friendly composition
March 28, 2012
| By K. Annabelle Smith
