Space

Mouse cells riding aboard the science satellite SJ-10 reached the blastocyst stage last week.

If conditions are good, you might see 10 to 20 meteors per hour.

Giant red moons are so last year.

Psychologists are attempting to pin down the precise components of the so-called overview effect.

By NASA/Robert Markowitz via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

These duos take it to a whole new level.

Not all volcanoes are hot, as Pluto, Enceladus, Titan, and other celestial bodies are teaching us.

No phone, no problem.

TX68 appeared to have a four in 1 billion chance of hitting Earth. That may sound like a long shot, but the odds were four times higher than the threshold NASA has set for potentially hazardous objects.

On March 10, 1982, a certain facet of people were bracing for a series of global disasters—earthquakes, tidal waves, and violent storms—that they believed would be caused by an alignment of all nine planets.

Andrew Pontzen and Fabio Governato via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 2.0

This could be the largest structure in the known universe

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

With even a modest telescope, you might be able to make out Jupiter's bands of brown, tan, and white.

The Navy wants to reduce its dependence on GPS.

When there's an eclipse, the newly discovered binary star system is shrouded in darkness for years.

The image would never have happened if it weren't for Carl Sagan.

The red supergiant even "pulses" as its atmosphere expands and contracts.

Seeing the astronomical phenomena known as the northern lights, a.k.a. aurora borealis, is a bucket-list item for many people.

SXS Collaboration, University of Chicago

After a decades-long search, scientists have managed to detect ethereal ripples in the very fabric of space.

Artist impression of the hidden galaxies // ICRAR

The galaxies are located 250 million light-years away in the Zone of Avoidance.

Sally Ride being interviewed by the media in 1983.

"Everybody wanted to know about what kind of makeup I was taking up," Sally Ride said about the questions she was asked ahead of her historic flight into space. "They didn’t care about how well-prepared I was to operate the arm or deploy communications sa

El’gygytgyn might sound like the name of Cthulhu's kid brother, but it's actually an impact crater on the Chukotka peninsula in Russia.

Both Earth and the Moon contain molecular traces of Earth’s head-on collision with the vanished planet Theia.

Scientists compared rainfall data with lunar position and found a distinct pattern.

Orion is the first human-rated deep space vessel to be built by NASA in 40 years.

Mouse Cells Become First Mammal Embryos Successfully Grown in Space

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Look Up Tonight to Spot the Pink Mini-Moon!

Exploring the Psychology of Why Astronauts Feel Awe

8 Remarkable Sets of Identical Twins

What Is an Ice Volcano?

4 Tricks to Help You Navigate Without Google Maps

Why We Track Asteroids Like the One That Flew by This Week

Why Some People Thought the World Might End on March 10, 1982

Astronomers Discover a Galactic Wall That Stretches 1 Billion Light-Years

Look Up Tonight! Jupiter Is the Biggest and Brightest It Will Be All Year

10 Everyday Technologies We Owe to NASA

U.S. Navy Returns to Teaching Officers How to Navigate by the Stars

Astronomers Discover an Eclipse That Lasts More Than 3 Years

On Its Anniversary, a Valentine For Voyager 1’s Pale Blue Dot

Look Up! The Valentine's Day Star Is High in the Sky Tonight

10 Bright Facts About the Northern Lights

Physicists Spot Einstein's Gravitational Waves for the First Time

Astronomers Discover 883 Hidden Galaxies Behind the Milky Way

When Gloria Steinem Interviewed Sally Ride In 1983

6 Beautiful Photos of Impact Craters—Where Space Rocks Met Earth

Head-on Collision With Another Planet Formed Earth and Moon

The Position of the Moon Slightly Affects the Rainfall on Earth

A Look Inside NASA's Spaceship Factory