Space

Our universe is full of mysteries, but few are as perplexing as the dark, tiny galaxies that hover…

The Lyrid meteor shower is currently active and peaks tonight, during predawn hours on April 22 — but…

Planets usually start small. Tiny grains of dust and ice bump into each other, stick, and slowly grow.…

QUICK FACTS Where is it? Chatham Islands, New Zealand [-44.00258384, -176.50074474] What’s in the photo? A glowing ring…

Today’s story is the answer to the April 2026 puzzler. With its abundance of naturally occurring gas…

The Royal Observatory Edinburgh, first opened in 1896 on the capital’s Blackford Hill, has been at the forefront…

NASA’s historic Artemis II mission delivered many absolutely spectacular photos and inspired a new generation of people to…

At SpaceX, what has gone up has now successfully come down 600 times. The company, which was founded…

If you have ever heard that Earth will “soon” switch to 25-hour days, the key word you should…

Following NASA’s Artemis II mission successfully splashing down on Earth, engineers started diving into detailed analysis of data…

There’s one particular challenge facing the crewed missions of the near future that scares mission planners more than…

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies over the Mojave Desert in California in this April 14, 2026,…

‘Dark subhaloes’ may explain why galaxies seem to form pre-determined shapes