Space News

Once upon a time, more than 12.7 billion years ago, a star was poised on the edge of extinction. It made its home in a galaxy too small, too faint and too far away to even be spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope. Not th...

Astronauts have tried to explain the view of Earth from space, with many saying that there just aren't the words to describe how beautiful it is. In the latest episode of the "Science Garage," recent ISS astronauts Tom M...

Mysterious red sprite lightning is intriguing: sprites occur only at high altitudes above thunderstorms, only last for a thousandth of a second and emit light in the red portion of the visible spectrum. Therefore, studyi...

Why don't we have insects the size of horses? Why do bubbles form spheres? Why does it take so much energy to broadcast to every star? Let's take a look at some non-linear mathematical relationships and see how they impa...

The Sun's magnetic field will likely reverse sometime in the next three to four months. No, this is not the next doomsday prediction scenario. It really will happen. But there's nothing to fear because in reality the Sun...