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An Astronaut Filmed an ‘Earthset’ With His Phone, Proving Humans Really Did Go to Space
In an AI-driven era, people in a spaceship snuck behind the moon to capture smartphone images better than anything AI could dream up.
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Kevin Key/Slworking/Getty Images The Lyrid Meteor Shower Is Peaking Tonight, and the Viewing Conditions Are Shockingly Good
The lyrid meteor shower peaks Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, and this year the sky is staying nice and dark.
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Roberto Machado Noa/Getty Images NASA Wants to See What Happens When You Start a Fire On the Moon
NASA wants to start a fire under lunar gravity just to see what happens. And maybe learn a thing or two about putting out a space fire.
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The Northern Lights Will Soon Be Visible in Unexpected Places. Here’s How to See Them.
A giant hole opened up in the sun’s atmosphere, and if you live in the right part of the country, you might want to go outside tonight.
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NASA NASA Shared Photos of the Moon’s Huge New Scar. Where Did It Come From?
NASA caught before-and-after images of a rare lunar impact that carved out the biggest fresh crater its orbiter has ever seen.
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Photo: SDenisov / Getty Images Scientists Figured Out How Fast the Universe Is Expanding, But the Answer Is Troubling
It’s not all that surprising to think there are major gaps in our understanding of the universe.
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WC.GI/Getty Images Life on Earth May Have a Violent Origin Story, Scientists Say
If it happened here, could it happen on other planets, too?
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Cokada/Getty Images Is Space Full of Alien Megastructures We Just Haven’t Seen Yet?
This is all purely theoretical. That said, it is grounded in real physics, which is usually how science fiction turns into science fact.
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NASA/Handout/Getty Images Conspiracy Theorists Are Already Trying (And Failing) to Discredit the Artemis II Mission
Conspiracy theorists are already trying to discredit NASA’s Artemis II mission, but the science behind their questions is pretty simple.
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory How Scientists Found Thousands of Asteroids Hiding in Plain Sight
A new observatory has discovered more than 11,000 new asteroids, including 33 near-Earth objects, before even reaching full operation.
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The Earth Has 8.3 Billion People. This Is How Many It Can Actually Hold, According to Science.
Obviously, that’s a number we have severely overshot and will continue to build on that lead for the foreseeable future.
