Dust is the surprisingly ordinary culprit behind a supergiant star's unusual dimming
Read now →When astronomers observed Betelguese last year, they saw it as far fainter than it should have been
Richard Branson is officially the first billionaire to take off for space
Read now →Branson's Unity-22 flight ushers in an era of space tourism
NASA's Perseverance rover can make oxygen out of Martian air
Read now →The goal of putting humans on Mars is now one step closer
Space travel is now open to the public
Read now →SpaceX's Inspiration4 has picked two new astronauts and will be launching September 2021
It's not just Gamestop: Elon Musk wants to send Dogecoin to the moon
Read now →The world of space exploration just got a little...weirder
China lands its first rover on Mars, becoming the second country to do so
Read now →The Zhurong rover is the first Mars rover to carry a magnetometer
A new tweak to an old model explains the existence of primordial black holes
Read now →Black holes formed in the early universe could be linked to dark matter
Uranus emits extra x-rays, and scientists don't know why
Read now →They could be just reflections, or Uranus could have its own version of the Northern Lights
Distance and our eyes distort the true colors of stars
Read now →New research calculates the colors of stars based on their actual energy distributions
The Perseverance rover sends back the first photos and sounds from Mars
Read now →The rover's landing was captured in an incredible video
Earth's oxygen is projected to run out in a billion years
Read now →As the Sun ages, Earth's processes will change
#BlackInAstro founder Ashley Walker is fighting for equality in the space sciences
Read now →Just three percent of undergraduate physics degrees are awarded to Black students. Walker aims to change that (and a lot more!)
Community scientists have discovered an unusual brown dwarf star
Read now →Paul Beaulieu and Austin Rothermich were participating in the Backyard Worlds project. You can, too!
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter achieves the first flight on another planet
Read now →30 seconds of flight on Mars is a universe-wide first
NASA releases the most detailed photo of Jupiter's largest moon to date
Read now →The image of Ganymede was taken by the Juno spacecraft
Rocks on Venus's surface are on the move
Read now →Scientists made this discovery by re-analyzing data from the 1990s