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Would Astronauts Survive an Interstellar Trip Through a Wormhole?
Well, it depends on your definition of “wormhole” …
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The International Space Station Just Avoided a Collision With Space Junk
A four-minute maneuver by a docked, unmanned European spacecraft pushed the ISS out of the path of a hand-sized chuck of space debris
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This Newly Forming Planet Will Have Three Suns
A triple-star system has two disks of gas and dust that could form planets
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The European Space Agency Has Made the Weirdest Short Film
The ESA’s advertising Rosetta with a very unusual sci-fi short
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Rosetta’s Comet Smells Really, Really Bad
If you could breathe in space, you wouldn’t want to breathe this air
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From Lightning on Jupiter to Apollo 13’s Call for Help, Hear Some of NASA’s Greatest Recordings
An audio archive captures some iconic moments of space history
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The Milky Way is Stealing Other Galaxies’ Gases
Little dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way are missing their hydrogen
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A Mysterious Force is Acting on Saturn’s “Death Star” Moon
Tiny, cratered Mimas is wobbling way more than it should be, hinting that it might contain either an oddly shaped core or a subsurface ocean
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This Weekend, Astronomers Get Their Best Ever Look at an Oort Cloud Object
Looking at the Oort cloud is like looking back in time—a superpower hampered by the fact that the Oort cloud is very, very, very, very far away
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Exoplanet Has Winds That Blow at the Speed of Sound
WASP-43b wouldn’t be a great place to live
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To Find Meteorites, Listen to the Legends of Australian Aborigines
Oral traditions may have preserved records of impacts over thousands of years and could lead to fresh scientific discoveries
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This Is How the Milky Way Will End
A computer simulation shows how the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda
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Water Vapor Found on Small, Cloudless, Hot Planet
NASA announced yesterday that water vapor had been detected on exoplanet HAT-P-11b
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India’s Space Agency Made It to Mars on the First Try
India’s Mangalyaan orbiter dropped into orbit around Mars last night
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Mars Just Got a New Robotic Explorer
NASA’s MAVEN orbiter dropped into orbit last night
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What Is the Universe? Real Physics Has Some Mind-Bending Answers
Science says the universe could be a hologram, a computer program, a black hole or a bubble—and there are ways to check
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This Is Where Rosetta’s Lander Will Touch Down
The Philae lander will touch down at “Site J” In November
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Delay-Plagued Virgin Galactic Finds Itself Delayed, Again
It will be hard for Virgin Galactic to fly by 2015 without a fully tested rocket engine
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Saturn Is Making (And Destroying) Mini-Moons All The Time
Saturn’s F ring is a little moon factory
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Turns Out We Live in the Laniakea Galactic Supercluster
Add another line to your celestial address: Astronomers just found out we live in the Laniakea Galactic Supercluster
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