Possible evidence of a ninth planet in our Solar System seems more likely than ever according to a British astronomer.
Tom Hanks pretty much just dissed Jeff Bezos and his expensive commercial space jaunt during his appearance on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ this week.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin just announced plans to put the first commercial space station into orbit, which will be like a “mixed-use business park” for film crews and tourists to enjoy Earth from a distance.
In order to help billionaire wannabe astronauts decide if it is worth wasting millions on an actual flight to space, a French hotelier has set up a way to give them a taste.
Former ‘Star Trek’ co-stars William Shatner and George Takei have been hating on each other for decades.
Captain James Kirk from ‘Star Trek’, William Shatner, has just traversed fiction by going into space for real this time as the oldest space traveller yet.
When you look up at the sky in late November, just know that there’s a chance NASA will be ramming a spacecraft into some space rocks.
The competition has been running for 13 years out of The Royal Observatory Greenwich, with more than 4 500 entries this year.
The view from the toilet on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft was supposed to be spectacular. Sadly, that did not work out as planned.
Retired NASA astronaut Jack Fischer is sharing some rather astonishing videos that show just how hectic space travel really is.
It looks like Virgin Galactic was more concerned with making sure that Branson would be the first billionaire in space than it was about properly implementing safety protocols.
NASA’s Curiosity rover is puttering around on Mars trying to find signs of life, and in the meantime, has provided material for a new video of a 360-degree panoramic tour.
Like a schoolchild whose toy was taken away from him by a playground nemesis, Bezos’ space company is claiming that NASA’s decision to go with SpaceX was unfair.
Astronauts from the International Space Station competed in their own version of the Olympics.
Two pranksters put out some flares and balloons in New Jersey in 2009, creating a local buzz around the possibility of UFOs. VICE shares a YouTube documentary that reveals the “social experiment” behind the hoax.
Along with the novelty of space tourism, SpaceX and its Netflix streaming special will mark a new era of live broadcasting.
It’s fun to speculate about the weird things that cameras have managed to capture on Mars and send back to Earth, but often there is a perfectly good, scientific explanation for it all.
At a distance of 628 million kilometres from Earth, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent us some dreamy snaps of Jupiter’s surface.
J.J. Abrams’ four-part docuseries explores our fascination with unidentified flying objects, and the influence the American government (among others) has had in masking the truth.
The US’s Federal Aviation Administration tightened the requirements for being awarded “astronaut” status, and it seems Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos don’t make the cut.
Jeff Bezos is being compared to Dr. Evil, and the general consensus is that the New Shepard rocket was rather phallic in shape.
Blue Origin’s founder, along with three other crew members, landed safely in the Texas desert after a fun-filled sub-orbital flight that lasted around 10 minutes.
Mary Wallace “Wally” Funk will finally go to space later today, and I don’t think it’s possible to find somebody more deserving.
The youngest and the oldest person to ever head to space will be on Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard rocket ship when it launches on July 20.
Ashton Kutcher sold his ticket to space onboard Richard Branson’s rocketship because his wife, Mila Kunis, said she didn’t think that it was a “smart family decision”.
As promised, Jeff Bezos is following Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic flight to space with a date set for next Tuesday, alongside a rather diverse crew.
Three of the world’s wealthiest people are trying to top each other with the most ambitious private space expeditions.
Travelling alongside a crew of five, Branson went just a little over 80 kilometres above Earth, reached suborbital space for a few seconds, and bested his billionaire rivals.
South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has been hard at work uncovering a large galaxy group, which is likely the most neutral hydrogen gas-rich group ever discovered.
The shortlisted photographs in The Royal Observatory Greenwich’s 13th Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition are so beautiful that it’s hard to believe they’re real.