Space
Black holes, galaxies, mysteries and space travel
Our coverage sheds light on the boundless darkness, the physical violence and the mysterious, awesome reaches of our universe. We ponder how it all began and about our place in the cosmos: Are we alone? Is there life on other planets? Will interplanetary travel save the human race? We also explore space through images, videos and illustration.
Pressurized water may cause quakes on Mars the same way fracking and wastewater injection trigger quakes on Earth.
A month's worth of cool science stories summed up: Saturn's rings, space sperm, better blood donation, and puppy dog eyes.
Gaze upon halos of light, streams of interstellar gas, and nearby Earthlike planets this month.
Elusive intermediate mass black holes may hold clues to how their more common supermassive cousins form.
Peer into the past and predict the future with the stars this month.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected changes in Jupiter’s magnetic field, making it the first planet known to share this feature with Earth.
The tiny world of Ultima Thule, which lies at the outer edges of the solar system, is flattened like a pancake, with few craters.
Astronomers are trying to deflect a near-Earth asteroid for the first time, to prepare for a future object on a collision course with the planet.
Their observations confirm water lurks in the moon's subsoil, not just at the poles.
We have now seen what we thought was unseeable, team says.
