Sign Up for Our Amazing Newsletter!
A daily update by email. Science news, great photos, sky alerts.
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
What are the odds aliens exist?
The star KIC 8462852 continues to display strange behavior, baffling astronomers and prompting speculation - and these musings - about advanced aliens.
February 3, 2016
Monster gas cloud boomerangs back to us
Astronomers say the Smith Cloud will plow into the Milky Way in about 30 million years and ignite a spectacular burst of star formation.
February 2, 2016
Cassini’s plunge through Saturn’s rings
Cassini spacecraft prepares to plunge between Saturn's rings and the planet. Plus ... learn to see Saturn. Mars Curiosity rover's newest self-portrait. And more.
February 1, 2016
Take a colorful flight over dwarf planet Ceres
A new animation shows a simulated flight over the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
February 1, 2016
Fungi survive Martian conditions on ISS
Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions after being strapped on the outside of the International Space Station for 18 months.
February 1, 2016
Mars will be awesome in 2016
All the news you can fit into outer space LIVE on Slooh.com Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 UTC). Or watch right here!
January 28, 2016
Dark matter linked to galaxy clusters’ internal structure
It's the first definitive detection of a property other than mass that's been linked to the invisible dark matter making up 27 percent of our universe.
January 27, 2016
Why Planet Nine might be for real
Claims about new planets that turned out to be wrong – and why 'Planet Nine' may be different.
January 26, 2016
And now … a real ISS transit of Saturn
A fake image ran in APOD a few days ago, but this video of an International Space Station transit across the face of Saturn looks real.
January 26, 2016
X-ray view of Earth’s aurora
An ESA space observatory was looking for something else when it caught these X-ray images of an aurora.
January 26, 2016
