Space

It's as close to the Earth as it's going to get this year.

The dayside of the wildly whirling exoplanet reaches a boiling 7800°F.

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Ed White loved it. He had to be ordered repeatedly to come back inside the spacecraft.

An illustration showing the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves that ripple outward as the black holes spiral toward each other.

Astronomers once again detected ripples in the fabric of space-time.

This enhanced-color composite photo shows Jupiter’s south pole from NASA’s Juno spacecraft 32,000 miles above the gas giant. The oval features are cyclones up to 600 miles wide.

The Juno spacecraft is already forcing us to rewrite the textbooks.

A new study finds that nuclear weapon tests damaged satellites and disturbed our planet’s magnetic field.

Microscopic ice particles seem to flash like glitter over the planet’s surface.

“I think Trappist is the most musical system we’ll ever discover.”

In 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the first American space station. It fell to earth six years later, burning up in the atmosphere on July 11, 1979.

In the 27 years of SCIVIS, more than 3800 students from almost every state and more than 20 countries have attended.

Think the moon, the planets, and the stars are community property? Not according to these landlords.

Set your alarm for the predawn hours of Saturday May 6 (or stay up really late tonight).

Christie's auction house in New York describes the space rock as "a third as old as time itself."

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They’re probably the weirdest—and certainly the most puzzling—objects in the universe. Peer over the event horizon with us.

NASA and researchers at the University of Arizona are building a greenhouse that can mimic conditions on Earth to feed astronauts on the moon and on Mars.

Constellations are temporary.

Soyuz 1 was plagued with technical problems and ended in tragedy. But more 50 years later, we're still using descendants of the spacecraft to ferry people and supplies to and from space

You can expect to see 10 meteors an hour tonight.

The planet resides in its star’s habitable zone, the slim "Goldilocks" orbit at which water can exist as a stable liquid.

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 departed for the moon. It was the second-to-last crewed mission to the moon. It was also the second time astronauts drove the Lunar Roving Module, also known as the coolest dune buggy in the universe.