Space News

How would explain humanity to another race? What would you include? Would you use pictures? Sound? Math? What does it mean to live on Earth? To be human? [More] --

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Voyager 1 left the solar system in August 2012 after 35 years of spaceflight. While this milestone is momentous enough in its own right, it also opens up a new science campaign whose potential already has scientists sali...

By now you might be used to spectacular images of celestial bodies thanks to organizations like NASA and the ESA. But it’s still possible to be wowed by these images, especially when... --

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has just rolled into an intriguing site called 'Darwin' at 'Waypoint 1'- having quickly picked up the driving pace since embarking at last on her epic trek to mysterious Mount Sharp more than ...

Now that we've been initiated into the cool waters of Tools (Part 1), we've compared our *own* galaxies to the rest of the post-quenched sample (Part 2), and we’ve put your classifications to use, looking for what make...