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Rocket Lab Launched This Glittery Sphere Into Orbit
The sphere reflects so much sunlight it can be seen from Earth with the naked eye
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Meteorite Hunters Recover Fragments of Fireball That Exploded Over Michigan
Amateurs and professionals comb snowy landscapes for shards of the exploded meteor
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Behold Hubble’s Best Image of a Distant Galaxy Yet
The galaxy is roughly 13.3 billion light years away, and formed just 500 million years after the universe began
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Meteor Explodes With a Brilliant Flash Over Michigan
The blast caused shook the ground and likely scattered small hunks of space rock in the region
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Take a Breathtaking Trip Through the Orion Nebula in NASA’s New Video
Combining visible and infrared imagery, the new video takes viewers deep into the star nursery
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Huge Deposits of Ice Found Just Beneath Mars’ Surface
Erosion has exposed eight sites of enormous quantities of water ice
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What Went Wrong With the Launch of the Secretive Zuma Satellite?
Not all is well for the classified Zuma satellite launched from Florida on Sunday
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Dust, Not an Alien Megastructure, Likely Causes Strange Winks in Tabby’s Star Brightness
After extensive observations, researchers can now confidently say: It’s not aliens
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Meet the Newly Named 86 Stars of the Night Sky
The new names are drawn from China, Australia, South Africa, Maya, Polynesian and Coptic traditions
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The Science of Silence in ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’
The soundless lightspeed attack that baffled some fans was actually the film’s most scientifically accurate moment
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Quadrantid Meteor Shower Kicks Off the New Year
The annual show is known for producing long-lasting, bright fireballs from asteroid 2003 EH1
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Watch the Supermoon Rise Around the World in Pictures
The ‘super’ event was a great excuse to get outside and take in some celestial wonder—even if the moon didn’t look all that different
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Russia Proposes “Luxury Hotel” for the International Space Station
The NEM-2 module would have four cabins, two bathrooms, exercise equipment, WiFi and a lounge with a 16-inch window
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Learn to Speak the Language of the Universe With This Mindblowing New Book
Magnitude helps you imagine the outer limits of time, speed and distance—without breaking your brain
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NASA Unveils Finalists for Its Next New Frontiers Mission
In 2025, the agency will either try to grab a piece of a comet or send a space-helicopter drone to the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan
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Unusual Interstellar Visitor Could Be Shard of Ice
A new study of ‘Oumuamua suggests it’s water ice covered with 20 inches of dry carbon compounds
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SpaceX Successfully Launches a Fully Recycled Mission to the Space Station
A previously flown rocket will launch a previously flown spacecraft to the space station
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Shadows of Saturn’s Rings Mess With Its Upper Atmosphere
The Cassini probe’s final swoops through the rings found that they impact the planet’s ionosphere
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