US Space Command confirmed first meteor from outside solar system hit Earth
An asteroid is a rocky object in space that is smaller than a planet. Meteoroids are space rocks that are smaller than asteroids and can range from the size of…
Video shows what it would take to turn Earth into a volcanic hellscape
You’re not going to wake up one morning to see Jupiter hanging in the sky, but two stunning animations show what it would look like if you did.
Amateur astronomer Nicholas Holmes makes videos about space on his Youtube channel,
NASA’s Voyager 2 finds mysterious layer outside our solar system
NASA’s Voyager 2 probe exited our solar system nearly a year ago, becoming the second spacecraft to ever enter interstellar space.
It followed six years behind its sister spacecraft, Voyager 1, which reached the limits of the solar system in …
Here’s the bizarre story of the man who ‘sold the moon’
Back in the halcyon days of the 1980s, when all people of the world had to worry about was total annihilation via widespread nuclear war, an American called Dennis Hope made international news when he revealed that after exploiting a loophole in the…
Scientists have discovered a mysterious lump on the moon’s far side
The far side of the moon is hiding a colossal secret beneath its airless, pockmarked surface.
No one is quite sure what it is — the most precise wording researchers can muster is a “large excess of mass.”
The feature lurks dozens of …
What scientists found sifting through dust in outer space
Just as dust gathers in corners and along bookshelves in our homes, dust piles up in space too. But when the dust settles in the solar system, it’s often in rings. Several dust rings circle the Sun. The rings trace the orbits of planets, whose grav…