China is to relocate more than 9,000 people in the lead-up to the opening of the world’s largest radio telescope later this year – a move that Beijing hopes will boost the global hunt for extraterrestrial life. Work on the 1.2bn yuan (£127m) Fast (Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescop

Space shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy following the successful STS-132 mission to the International Space Station.

The world is advancing at unprecedented rates and by 2050, we can expect to see life on earth change drastically. If this is true, then what can we expect from the future? Lets time travel into world in 2050. Areas involve in this futuristic evaluation include: Nanotechnology; Transportation; Space...

The goal of 3-D printing is to take this capability to microgravity for use on the International Space Station. In space, whatever astronauts have available on orbit is what they have to use -- but just like on Earth, parts break or get lost. When that happens, there's a wait for replacement parts, ...

This time lapse footage of the earth during sunrise accross te planet was taken by the International Space Station on October 3, 2015. NASA, 2015

American astrophysicist and cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote and narrated a YouTube piece for Minute Physics called A Brief History of Everything, with the scientist explaining and condensing the epic 16 billion year history of the universe into a succinct eight minute video. While the basic co

Soyuz,a Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man crew blasted off Friday from a launch pad in the steppes of Kazakhstan, for the first time taking a shorter path to the International Space Station. Instead of the two-day approach maneuver used by Soyuz spacecraft in the past, this journey to the stat...

The prospect of space travel will feel much different after the Inspiration4 mission—the first orbital mission with an all-civilian crew—launches this fall. Once that happens, the history of human spaceflight will instantly be divided into two eras. There will have been the six decades after the fir

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since July, 2016. But only just recently have scientists had a chance to analyze all of its data — and the results are painting a different picture of Jupiter than what anyone expected. Juno is also returning images unlike any we've ever seen, includi

On Monday, scientists announced the first-ever observation of a cosmic event using both gravitational wave detectors and conventional telescopes. They witnessed a kilonova, a violent, brilliant explosion that occurs when two neutron stars collide. The discovery was a massive undertaking. Thousands o...