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This new photo of Earth taken through the rings of Saturn should make you...
Modern society seems to soak up all of our attention with a bewildering number of tasks, concerns, and frustrations.We've got to eat healthy, take excellent care of our families, get to the office on...
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These pictures show how imagination is helping bring abstract science and...
Anyone who has ever written anything online is familiar with stock imagery. It's thanks to sites like Shutterstock, Pixabay, and Pexels that writers can source pictures for their articles without...
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25 photos that prove you're a stowaway on a tiny, fragile spaceship we call...
From the ground, Earth looks like a boundless fertile plain that beckons to be explored and exploited.But astronauts would beg — and even plead — to differ."You realize that people often say, 'I hope...
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Physicists have discovered a strange new type of aurora named 'Steve'
If there is one thing social media teaches us today, it's not to leave naming rights up to the hive mind.Move over Boaty McBoatface— a group of aurora enthusiasts have given a newly discovered...
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President Trump just called outer space to congratulate NASA's...
President Trump has made a long-distance call to Peggy Whitson, a decorated NASA astronaut who just broke the US record for the most cumulative days spent in orbit.Whitson and her astronaut colleague...
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New close-up photos of Saturn's largest moon may be the last for decades
Cassini is a NASA spacecraft that has orbited Saturn since 2004.On April 22, the probe took its last close-up photos of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.Flying past the moon nudged Cassini onto a path that...
View ArticleNASA is about to fly its $3.26 billion spacecraft into a danger zone it...
At 5 am ET on Wednesday, NASA will fly its $3.26 billion Cassini spacecraft where no spacecraft has flown before — in the deepest region of Saturn's rings between the planet and its inner-most ring....
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NASA's $3.26 billion Saturn probe just began its death spiral — here's what...
NASA's Cassini probe is doomed.The nuclear-powered robot, which is part of a $3.26 billion mission, has orbited Saturn for nearly 13 years. But it's running dangerously low on fuel.NASA doesn't want to...
View ArticleThe amount of space junk around Earth has hit a critical point — and it could...
There are almost 30,000 man-made objects orbiting Earth. Many are tiny pieces of rockets and satellites, while others are completely dead satellites not in use anymore. All of them pose risks to other...
View ArticleNASA just got its closest look at Saturn yet — here's what it saw
On April 26, NASA flew its Cassini spacecraft closer to Saturn than ever before. In fact, it's the closest any spacecraft has ever come to Saturn — just 1,900 miles from the beautiful planet's cloud...
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New close-up photos of Saturn give a taste of what a doomed NASA probe may...
These new images of Saturn may look small, drab, and grainy. But they actually show swirling storms in the clouds of the gas giant — the closest views of the planet we've ever gotten.On April 26,...
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Stunning photos of airports taken from space
The INSIDER Summary:Astronauts can spot airports from space.Some are surrounded by cities or residential areas, while others are in the middle of forests or deserts.Astronauts are often trained pilots...
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A Russian tycoon's $100 million effort to listen for aliens has published its...
Yuri Milner began a $100 million effort to listen for aliens in 2015.It's called Breakthrough Listen, and it's a network of radio telescopes that target nearby stars and galaxies for 10 years.The first...
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Lego just launched a giant Apollo Saturn V moon rocket set that comes with...
This summer will be one small step for Lego fans, and one giant leap for nerd-kind.Lego Ideas is launching a NASA Apollo Saturn V rocket set on June 1, 2017, to help space fans everywhere pull off...
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18 photos that show how much fun astronauts have in space
The INSIDER Summary:French astronaut Thomas Pesquet takes delightful photos of life on the International Space Station.It seems like a ton of fun up there.Astronauts celebrate holidays together, eat...
View ArticleNASA is running out of spacesuits and it could jeopardize future missions
A new government audit reveals that NASA is running low on spacesuits and new ones might not be available in time.Astronauts have been using the same suits since 1981. The suit were only designed to...
View ArticleHow our universe will end: 'The black holes will eat up everything'
Robbert Dijkgraaf is a theoretical physicist and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is also the co-author of "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge." In this video,...
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SpaceX just broke a 10-year monopoly on launching top-secret spy satellites
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida on Monday, carrying the company's first satellite for the US military, and breaking a 10-year monopoly held by a partnership of Lockheed Martin and...
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Jeff Bezos has job openings for nearly 100 people at Blue Origin — here's who...
In 2000, with his six-year-old business Amazon.com well on its way to becoming a retail empire, Jeff Bezos quietly launched his childhood dream: a rocket company.Called Blue Origin, Bezos kept the...
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Stephen Hawking is about to test his theory that humans must colonize another...
Stephen Hawking is about to test his theory about the future of the human race in a BBC documentary.In what the British broadcaster is calling a "landmark" two-part series, Hawking will explore his...
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