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NASA launches TESS spacecraft to look for planets beyond our galaxy

After the launch of NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on Wednesday, on top of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral....
NASA Reports an Asteroid Large Enough to Kill Millions of People Is Nearing Our Earth

NASA Reports an Asteroid Large Enough to Kill Millions of People...

US space agency NASA reports that an asteroid large enough to kill millions of people will pass by our Earth on Saturday, February 15....
Prepare for the Great American Eclipse Map and suggestions

Prepare for the Great American Eclipse: Map and suggestions

Exactly one year from today on Monday, on August 21, 2017, 12 states of the United States will be able to experience the first...

Astronomer Tim Peake returns from the ISS after 186 days in...

Tim Peake has finally returned after his 186-day long mission aboard the ISS. The first ever British National to be sent aboard the International...
Foremost Mathematician and Quantum Physicist, Freeman Dyson, Dies At 96

Foremost Mathematician and Quantum Physicist, Freeman Dyson, Dies At 96

Freeman John Dyson, a foremost mathematician, and quantum physicist is dead. He died in a hospital near Princeton in New Jersey on Friday. He...

Putin boosts new space race hinting at Mars missions in 2019

President Vladimir Putin has announced Russia’s plans on both manned and unmanned missions to Mars, the Moon, and deeper outer space. Most of these...
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Watch: Stephen Hawking explains what happened before the Big Bang

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking guest starred on Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s talk show to be interviewed about what came before the beginning of the universe,...
Climate Change and Deforestation Killing World’s Oldest Trees and Stunting Younger Ones

Climate Change and Deforestation Killing World’s Oldest Trees and Stunting Younger...

A study published in the journal Science reveals that a combination of climate change and deforestation is destroying ancient trees, and stunting younger ones....
NASA Announces the Names of 18 Astronauts for Artemis Mission

NASA Announces the Names of 18 Astronauts for Artemis Mission

NASA has shortlisted 18 astronauts that might make it to the moon on its Artemis mission. The list is a surprising mix of astronauts...

CIS discovers 63 new quasars from 13 billion years ago

A Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS) team of scientists announced today they had discovered 63 new quasars from 13 billion years ago. The Astrophysical...