Space

Ohio astronomer detected a strange 72-second signal from space and it’s never returned

Back in 1977, an Ohio astronomer discovered what became known as the Wow! signal: a mysterious 72-second signal from space that has never been heard again. Picked up by the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University, the sound was so strange and powerful that it immediately stood out from the usual cosmic noise. […]

NASA's Opportunity Rover sent a sad final message before it was destroyed on Mars

It sent down a final message

American builds DIY homemade radio and makes contact with astronaut aboard the ISS

This was really special

Forget FlightRadar, NASA wants you tracking astronauts as they loop around the Moon

Forget FlightRadar, MoonRadar is here and it’s cool as hell

NASA supercomputer shows what it’d be like to be plunged into a black hole in unbelievable 360° detail

You feel like you’re flying the spaceship!

Video shows incredible speed of International Space Station as it orbits Earth at 10,000ft

It’s so speedy

Stunning visualization maps 40 years of Voyager 1 movements in the solar system

It’s mind-blowing to see

Voyager 1 is such an incomprehensible distance away from Earth that it's difficult to even think about

It’s almost one light-day away

Simulation showing Voyager 1 speed vs a commercial jet defies belief

Launched by NASA in 1977, Voyager 1 is one of the most significant projects ever created by mankind. One thing most people don’t realise is just how fast objects like this travel through space. An incredible simulation created by YouTube channel ArtSumiit illustrates the different speeds at which various objects travel. The video, which you […]

SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts America’s top-secret X-37B spaceplane into orbit for record-breaking tests

The SpaceX Falcon 9 has once again made history, this time by launching the mysterious X-37B spaceplane on its eighth mission. The Boeing-built craft took off from Kennedy Space Center’s iconic Launch Complex 39A in Florida on August 21. It embarked on another long-duration classified mission, which promises to push the boundaries of orbital testing. […]

Harvard scientist has doubled down on their claims a mysterious object in space is an alien UFO

He’s convinced

NASA James Webb telescope just spotted a brand-new moon hiding in our galaxy

NASA’s James Webb telescope has a habit of rewriting what we thought we knew about space. But this time, the shocker wasn’t some galaxy billions of light-years away. It was something right here in our own solar system, hiding in plain sight. A brand-new moon, just six miles wide, has been spotted orbiting Uranus. VISIT […]

China’s Tiangong Space Station now has its own AI chatbot co-pilot

Sounds like the plot to WALL-E

Scientists left confused after mysterious ‘alien helmet’ spotted on the surface of Mars

This got a lot of people talking

NASA rover captures Mars panorama that's confused everyone by looking remarkably similar to Earth

The Red Planet has never looked so similar to Earth before

Astronaut settles the question of whether you can feel the ISS’s 28,000 km/h speed while doing a space walk

It moves at a rapid pace