2021 has brought a deadly avalanche season. "We're only halfway through the season and we're 3/4 of the way to the number of fatalities we'd see in a typical year. The dangerous, record-breaking year keeps avalanche forecasters up at night," one expert said.

The Dyatlov Pass incident has intrigued people for generations, but a new theory pointing to a slab avalanche as the culprit does a thorough job of explaining how the 9 Russian trekkers died. A new video and more here.

The I Heart Pluto Festival 2021 is a free event running from February 13 - 18 hosted by Lowell Observatory. Join in with nightly virtual events!

The Chinese Tianwen-1 mission to Mars successfully entered Mars orbit on February 10, 2021, only one day after the United Arab Emirates mission Hope arrived at the red planet on February 9. They'll be followed soon by NASA's Perseverance mission which is set to arrive and land on February 18.

Avi Loeb's Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth gives a case for 'Oumuamua being a product of an alien civilization.

Mattel, maker of Hot Wheels, has just released a new Hot Wheels Mars Perseverance Rover to celebrate the landing of the NASA Perseverance rover on Mars on February 18.

A moon rock collected by Apollo astronauts during the first moon landing is enshrined in a stained-glass window - known as the Space Window - in the Washington National Cathedral.

Thousands more satellites will soon orbit Earth. We need better rules to prevent space crashes.

Watch giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian sliding and rolling around in snow in their habitat at Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington in this video.

Why is there is a universe at all? The question is a challenging one because it seems perfectly possible that there might have been nothing whatsoever – no Earth, no stars, no galaxies, no universe.