Category: Science

It's an odd space rock. A NASA spacecraft is traveling to the most mysterious asteroids in the solar system. On the way there, it snapped images of the curious, elongated asteroid dubbed “Donaldjohanson.” On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from Donaldjohanson, which …

Are extraterrestrials in exoplanet K2-18b's seas? A team of scientists is doubling down on its claims that a world 124 light-years away in space is likely covered in oceans and full of aquatic life, with new data to support the findings. The research, led by astronomers at the University of Cambridge …

“This caught our attention.” A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. “This caught our attention,” Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and space livestreaming company Sen, told Mashable. Sen has three cameras hosted on the space station, …

“That never gets old!” The future of rocketry is here. Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, recently blasted a crew of space tourists on a 10-minute suborbital flight, reaching nearly 66 miles above Earth‘s surface. Blue Origin’s big-windowed crew capsule parachuted down to the West Texas desert on …

Watch Blue Origin's First All-Female Mission to Space

Never before filmed in its natural environs. Scientists previously captured rare footage of a giant squid. Now, they’ve filmed another huge squid species — the colossal squid. The first specimens of the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) were formally described by biologists a century ago, in 1925. These deep sea dwellers, which live exclusively …

The most detailed view yet. In death, there can be great beauty. Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at planetary nebula NGC 1514, where a star is shedding copious amounts of gas into the universe as it gradually exhausts its fuel and shrinks down into a dense core — …

An all-female crew is headed to space to start off your week. Katy Perry’s trip to space is almost here. Well, sort of, anyway. Blue Origin’s mission NS-31, which includes an all-female civilian astronaut crew, is getting ready to launch on Monday morning from Van Horn, TX. The launch is set for roughly 9:30 a.m. ET, though it …

Here's who really dunnit. Two years ago, a star on its deathbed was charged with a heinous act — eating a planet — in a system 12,000 light-years away from Earth. But new evidence has emerged in the case that astronomers say exonerates this elderly Milky Way star of …

Asteroids aren't all bad. When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it’s not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what’s now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site created …