Unless you’re a naked mole rat or a worm-lizard, you were never meant to live your life out underground like the poor doomsday denizens of Apple TV’s “Silo.” Season 3…
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir just shared some tips for controlling curls in the tough environment of microgravity — and it was a big deal for curly-haired people like me. Meir’s…
Most of our experience with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been focused on capturing radio signals that alien species have sent out, whether intentionally or unintentionally. That creates…
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that the ring system of a tiny solar system body is even more interesting than they knew. The object in…
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The most comprehensive catalogue of exploding white dwarf stars ever assembled has revealed new clues about dark energy, the mysterious force driving the universe’s accelerating expansion.
On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to go to space. In NASA’s early days, women and people of color were never selected…
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. During a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston…
On Episode 227 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Michael Okuda, who with wife and others have been central to the look, feel,…
Raise shields and charge phasers, because we’re running down the best “Star Trek” spaceships from across the galaxy. When Matt Jefferies started designing the original USS Enterprise, “Star Trek” creator…
