Mars holds two of humanity’s greatest space ambitions, discovering alien life and establishing our first foothold on another world. Key to both is the discovery of water. We know it’s

As different nations begin conducing operations on the lunar surface, humanity’s penchant for geopolitical struggles will likely be along for the ride. Tension between nations and/or corporations could grow. There

The Solar System lacks hot-jupiters, intensely hot gas giant planets, so close to their stars they take just days or even hours to orbit once. But there are some systems

The Earth’s magnetosphere is a giant magnetic field that arises from the flow of material deep inside the planet. Because the flow of material isn’t constant, the strength and shape

Just when you thought the race to reusable rockets was all wrapped up, a new competitor emerges from the shadows. Honda R&D Co (a subsidiary of Honda Motor Co) successfully

Comet C/2014 UN271 is one of the largest Oort Cloud comets ever observed, measuring 140 km across. It’s currently at a distance of 16.5 AU from the Sun, which makes

The early Universe was a busy place some 13 billion years ago. That’s when countless young galaxies began to evolve and birthed stars at a prodigious rate. The hearts of

More than one third of the regular matter in the Universe is missing (we’re not talking about dark matter, just regular matter). It’s needed to make the current cosmological models