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The Condon Committee, more formally known as the University of Colorado UFO Project, was a group funded by the Air Force that looked at UFOs under leadership from physicist Edward Condon. The group re-examined the information from Project Blue Book and published its efforts in the “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects” (also known as […]

A visitor from far away was spotted inside our solar system in 2017, carrying the mystery of its origins and inspiring some people to hope that perhaps it is an interstellar craft. The object was first detected in October, by researchers using the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawaii. The scientists noticed the object was traveling on […]

NEW ORLEANS —Despite President Trump’s declared intention to send human explorers to the moon before Mars, astronomers and planetary scientists remained wary. While some expressed their enthusiasm for the plan, others questioned whether it would ever become a reality. “It’s all hot air until someone actually does something,” exoplanet scientist Stephen Kane of the University […]

By Calla Cofield, Space.com Senior Writer | December 27, 2017 11:40am ET We got a sneak peek at @SpaceX #FalconHeavy rocket while taking the bus tour. #SpaceX pic.twitter.com/18gnRCXobF — Emiliano C. Diaz de Leon (@ECDiazdeLeon) December 26, 2017 A lucky visitor to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center snapped a photo of the payload container for SpaceX’s […]

The year 2017 was a big one for NASA. From astronaut Peggy Whitson’s record-shattering spaceflight to the daring death-dive of Cassini into Saturn and a pledge to return astronauts to the moon, take a look back at the year that was in these NASA videos. Above is NASA’s main 2017 year-in-review video, showcasing major events […]

This composite image shows the progression of a total solar eclipse over Madras, Oregon, on Aug. 21, 2017. When the moon’s shadow zipped across the United States during the Great American Solar Eclipse this past August, the shadow traveled so fast it created waves in Earth’s upper atmosphere, a new study finds. During a solar […]

The year 2017 featured one of the most remarkable exoplanet discoveries in recent memory: a total of seven Earth-size planets have been found orbiting a cool dwarf star, three planets of which are in “goldilocks” orbits, meaning they could have conditions right for life. In Feb. 2017, the scientific journal Nature published a paper detailing […]

Researchers identified 7 planets circling the star TRAPPIST-1 this year, three of which might be able to keep liquid water on its surface. Scientists spotted seven Earth-size alien planets orbiting one dim red star this year, and a lot of other strange exoplanets — ranging from an Earth-size ice ball to the hottest planet ever […]

A Ukranian-built Zenit rocket launches Angosat-1, the South African country Angola’s first satellite, into orbit from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 26, 2017. MT LAUREL, New Jersey — A Zenit rocket, flying for the first time in two years, successfully orbited Angola’s debut satellite Angosat-1  on Dec. 26. The land-launched Zenit lifted off from the […]

The rare Super Blue Blood Moon is in the record books and what an event it was.  Read our wrap story here about the meet-up of a Blue Moon, supermoon and total lunar eclipse. See more reader photos here! It was the first total lunar eclipse since 2015 and the first Blue Moon Blood Moon visible from […]

The Quadrantids (pronounced KWA-dran-tids) are a meteor shower that happens every January. It is an odd shower compared to others. It was discovered relatively recently, has a short peak period, and the constellation that gave them their name no longer exists. The 2018 Quadrantid meteor shower runs from Dec. 22 to Jan. 17 and peaks […]

The year 2018 will be a hard one to view the annual Quadrantid meteor shower as its peak this week on Wednesday (Jan. 3) will come just after the full moon overnight on Jan. 1 and 2. That Full Wolf moon will be a supermoon , the largest and brightest of 2018, with the moon’s […]