Tags: space

An unidentified metal sphere has fallen from the sky in Namibia, Africa according to the Agence-France-Presse news agency (AFP). It slammed into the ground hard enough to create a hole...

(With due props to Douglas Kenney, National Lampoon co-founder.) Driving to work earlier this week, I heard Terry Gross of Fresh Air (NPR) interview Annie Jacobsen about her new book,...

File photo: The spiral galaxy M101 is pictured in this undated handout photo from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. M101 is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way, but about 70...

Artist’s illustration of “Planet Nine,” a hypothesized world about 10 times more massive than Earth that may orbit far beyond Pluto. (Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)) Planet Nine is a huge alien...

File photo. (REUTERS/Eriko Sugita) Edward Snowden, the former contractor who leaked National Security Agency secrets publicly in 2013, is now getting attention for an odd subject: aliens. In a podcast...

File photo – The Gulf of Mexico and U.S. Gulf Coast at sunset is shown in this image from the International Space Station and posted to social media on Dec....

Space object WT1190F observed on 9 Oct. 2015 with the University of Hawaii 2.2-metre telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. (Credits: B. Bolin, R. Jedicke, M. Micheli) A mysterious piece of...

Oct. 10, 2013: NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins took this photo from the International Space Station. “Saw something launch into space today. Not sure what it was but the cloud it...

Astronomers analyzing the first data from the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission have discovered two stars that revolve around each other every 38 minutes. One of the stars...

Students and researchers at Delft University of Technology are designing a starship capable of keeping generations of crew alive as they cross the gulf between stars – and they’ve turned...