A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.

On Episode 172 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest host Rick Jenet are joined by Erika Alden DeBenedictis to discuss how terraforming Mars might work.

On Episode 171 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest host Isaac Arthur are joined by are joined by Dr. Rick Jene with the ...

As of Friday (Aug. 15), there are 7 people aboard the International Space Station: Expedition 73 commander Sergey Ryzhikov of ...

From Jupiter’s swirling storms to Neptune’s icy depths, planets across our solar system are orbited by a fascinating cast of ...

We call black holes in this gap lite intermediate mass black holes or lite IMBHs, because they are the least massive black holes that we expect to exist from sources other than stars. They are no ...

"In science fiction, there are scenes where a beam is fired at something to destroy it, causing an explosion with debris ...

To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and mass. JWST's powerful Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument are ...

"I think it's natural to take a break and wonder whether we are fundamentally thinking about this in the wrong way." ...

In this quiz, you’ll explore the weird, wonderful, and sometimes surprising world of space cuisine. Can you tell which foods ...

In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon by 2035. This plant would support ...

"The planet gets in the way from the point of view of any one spacecraft, so we had to spread them around the planet to look ...