Space News

Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Mat O'Dowd astrophysicist and host of PBS Spacetime to discuss Ancestor Simulation of our Universe.       

A Long March 2D rocket launched a new Earth-mapping satellite for China Saturday (Jan. 12).

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced plans Jan. 8 to retire its decade-old Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) 13 to make way for its next generation.

A recent study based on data from multiple orbiters indicates that Mars has multiple sheets of subsurface ice, and they run deep! The post Huge Sheets of Ice Found Hidden Just Beneath the Surface of Mars appeared first o...

"One intriguing prediction of the Gaian Bottleneck model is that the vast majority of fossils in the universe will be from extinct microbial life, not from multicellular species such as dinosaurs or humanoids that take b...

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING):

Five sibling planets in a very unique orbit around their parent star were discovered with the help of citizen scientists around the world.

Twenty-five particles and four forces. That description -- the Standard Model of particle physics -- constitutes physicists' best current explanation for everything. It's neat and it's simple, but no one is entirely happ...