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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.
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NASA Here’s What Has to Go Right for You to See the Rare Sungrazer Comet This Weekend
A comet is about to do something pretty wild this Saturday, which is flying absurdly close to the sun and hoping for the best.
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DrPixel/Getty Images Why Scientists Think This Asteroid Is the Core of a Dead Planet (and Extremely Valuable)
Scientists think this asteroid may be the metal-rich core of a failed planet, making it one of the most valuable objects in space.
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Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images The Cold, Hard Truth About Those Viral Videos of Meteors Slamming Into the Moon
It’s fake. Of course it’s fake. And it’s not even a convincing kind of fake if you know what the real thing looks like.
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Gremlin/Getty Images How an Astronaut Almost Drowned While Floating in Space
Astronaut Luca Parmitano described to New Scientist’s Colin Barras one of the most dangerous moments of his career.
