Science

Launch vehicle provider (United Launch Alliance) and habitat provider (Bigelow Aerospace) announce alliance to launch a private space hab ...

Astronomy Night is this Friday evening at 30 locations across the city. Find locations at philasciencefestival.org. This festival runs fr ...

Quasar 3C 273, that’s what’s hot. – 18 trillion degrees F! One of the largest black holes ever seen is discovere ...

This Friday, a SpaceX supply mission will carry among other things, a 3,100 lb inflatable habitat test module built by Bigelow Aerospace. ...

County election officials in Pennsylvania are working their way through a wave of last-minute voter registration requests. Since t ...

Losing sleep over killer asteroids? A new system that takes 1000 images a night and can immediately determine if an object is close to ea ...

It was a loud, busy day. Nearly 600 middle- and high-school girls filled the ground floor of Princeton University’s Frick Chemistry ...

European Space Agency and Roscosmos partnered to send a methane-hunting orbiter and a EDL systems tester to Mars. Should arrive in Octobe ...

A look at the work of Albert Einstein – he was born on March 14 in 1879. Today is also the birthday of Gene Cernan (born in ...

Clocks shift forward one hour this Sunday morning (2 a.m.) A total solar eclipse can be seen this week in Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawes ...

Representatives from the Philadelphia region’s tech scene are packing their bags for Texas. This Friday, the 2016 edition of ...

Year in Space chronicles Astronaut Scott Kelly’s preparation and 12-month mission (starting with the launch last Mrch 27th ...

Scientists are using the aging Hubble Space Telescope to determine the components of the atmosphere of a so-called super-Earth planet 40 ...

Gravitational Waves detected, confirming a key component of Albert Einstein’s understanding of the cosmos. Derrick Pitts, chief ast ...

What happens when the gas supply at a Black Hole runs out? – It’s “lights out!” Previous evidence suggested that ...