Space

How two space geeks imagine the future of trips to the stars. Rock climbing on Mars, playing baseball on the moon and skydiving th ...

The smallest star ever just found, called ELBM-J0555-57Ab, is just about the size of Saturn but 300 times as massive. That makes it just ...

Astronauts often become lab rats of sorts – scientists have an intense interest in studying how space affects their bodies and mind ...

Crumbs may seem harmless here on Earth, but they can be a hazard in microgravity — they could get in an astronaut’s eye, or get i ...

In 1973, a communication snafu between astronauts in space and their colleagues on Earth, alerted NASA to the need for people skills and ...

Physicists and engineers in New Jersey are working on a power source that can take humans far out into our solar system. We have l ...

On this date in July 1997, NASA placed the first rover on Mars. Sojourner was followed by Spirit and Opportunity, then Curiosity. It was ...

This week, Dave Heller and Dr. Derrick Pitts discuss Earth’s elliptical orbit, and how it can still feel hot on Earth when we are a ...

Kepler scientists this week announced the 219 newest additions to the exoplanet count – 10 of which are identified as “terres ...

The 1968 movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” painted a grand vision of the future — but for lots of us, the real 21st Century has ...

Sun’s Original Twin: What happened to it? UC Berkeley astronomer Steven Stahler and Sarah Sadevoy of Smithsonian Astrophysical Obse ...

If you’re sweating from our current heat wave, be glad you don’t live on planet KELT-9, orbiting a blue A-type star 620 light ...

Wiltshire, England doesn’t have the monopoly on solar events with summer solstice at Stonehenge. Philadelphia is a suitable site to ...

A cosmic debris ring has been observed around a star where a planet has already been directly observed. Plus, the observed lunar in ...

Sunset now comes at 8:15pm, giving us 14 hours and 36 minutes of daylight here at Philadelphia’s latitude. We have about four ...