Space
Come along with us as we explore outer space, including everything from NASA to astronomy to aliens.
The New Horizons probe will by flying by this summer — and it’s about to wake up from hibernation.
NASA is about to launch Orion — a spacecraft that might someday carry people to Mars
The binary number format YouTube uses to count views tops out at 2,147,483,647 views. And “Gangnam Style” recently surpassed that figure.
The rocks could tell us a lot about the origin of the Solar System and perhaps even life on Earth.
Not everybody is a comics nerd. But they should be.
If this doesn’t convince you we should be worrying more about asteroids, nothing will.
This mesmerizing animation simulates a year in the life of carbon dioxide.
Researchers are slowly inching their way towards even the most extreme technology of science fiction.
We still don’t know where exactly Philae is — but we’re getting a little closer.
Experts are predicting 10 to 15 meteors per hour between midnight and dawn.
A new study is bad news for our hopes of finding ancient life on Mars.
The comet data collected by Philae will help us better understand the solar system — and maybe even life on Earth.
There’s good news and bad news for the historic mission
These are the first photos ever taken from the surface of a comet
Even more crazy: it cost just 7.4 percent as much as the Sochi Olympics.
Today, people landed a spacecraft on a comet for the first time ever. This is what it looked like.
We’d landed on six celestial bodies ever. The tiny Philae probe just made it seven.
We’re moments away from finding out if the mission is a success
Comets may have brought the ingredients of life to Earth. Now we’re repaying the visit.
When you look at a nearby star, the light you see was emitted during the OJ Simpson trial.
We’ve landed on six celestial bodies ever. The tiny spacecraft is about to make it seven.
The sunspot is as big as Jupiter and fired off six X-class flares in the last two weeks of October.
Monday morning, Yahoo posted Taylor Swift’s second music video off of 1989. The video for “Blank Space” features Swift and male model Sean O’Pry in a lavish mansion where Swift is casually going crazy.
How our age, gender, race, and other demographic factors predict which policies we support.
What if climate change is a predictable consequence of intelligent life?
Some customers are already canceling. But experts are optimistic.
The most detailed image of a new star system we’ve ever seen.
Humanity leaves behind a dying Earth to look for new hope among the stars, as Matthew McConaughey cries in close-up.
One of the pilots has reportedly died, and the other is seriously injured.
We are so very, very tiny.
No one was injured, and the cause is still unknown.
They say its bouquet also features “the pungent, suffocating odor of formaldehdye”
This is what a comet flyby and interstellar space actually sound like
Good news: it’ll be viewable from pretty much anywhere in the US
See the planet transform from a warm, wet world to the cold, dry one we know today.
A stage-by-stage photo recap of the astronomical event
How to see the moon go dark — then turn bright red — tomorrow morning before sunrise
This really great map of Instagrams also makes an important point about the Hong Kong protests.
Some incredible before/after pictures from NASA’s Earth Observatory.
How India just reached Mars on a shoestring