10 Years Later, Ridley Scott’s Hard-Sci Fi Movie Feels Like Fantasy

20th Century Fox Martian colonies are a ubiquitous sci-fi image, but the reality of making one actually happen is complicated. It would be ludicrously expensive and extraordinarily dangerous. The logistical headaches are endless — you can’t exactly pop back to Earth if you forget your toothbrush. Navigate all that, and you’re left with big questions […]

These Are The Most Exciting Space Missions Coming In 2025

CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s Moon Europa. SpaceX’s Starship achieved its first successful landing, a critical milestone for future deep space missions. China made headlines with the Chang’e 6 mission, which successfully returned samples from the far side of the Moon. […]

Binary Black Holes Can Tell Us A Lot About The Universe. But First, We Have To Find Them

MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive black holes expect to find binary systems — two supermassive black holes orbiting […]

Aurora Alert! These 9 Northern States Could See the Aurora Borealis Tonight

OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images People in the northernmost states may have a chance to see auroras glowing in the northern sky tonight. A blob of electrically-charged gas burped out by the Sun over the weekend. It will brush past Earth’s magnetic field between 7 PM and 10 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday night, setting off an […]

The Debris From An Ancient Space Catastrophe Will Pelt Earth This Entire Week

Marko Korosec/Solent News/Shutterstock This week is the perfect time to watch the debris from an ancient space catastrophe rain down on Earth’s atmosphere. Two meteor showers, both streams of debris from the same massive object that broke apart 20,000 years ago, are happening at the same time this week. The Northern and Southern Taurid meteor […]

Scientists Just Identified A Key Location On Mars Where Life Could Thrive

The white edges along these gullies in Mars’ Terra Sirenum are believed to be dusty water ice. NASA is always searching for life on Mars, and on Thursday, the space agency announced one place it might thrive. The announcement describes a new paper, published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment, that suggests […]