01/24/2017 - 16:10
"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope," says the young Princess Leia, or rather, a hologram of the princess.
01/12/2017 - 12:27
Space is a dark void filled with trouble: comets, asteroids and, of course, black holes. But what if it turns out that our galaxy's black hole is shooting out planet-sized spitballs?
01/05/2017 - 19:58
A team of astronomers from around the world has identified the source of a sporadically repeating milliseconds-long “fast radio burst.”
01/03/2017 - 11:38
We have a real astronomer to thank for the fictional Vulcan.
12/28/2016 - 16:48
The possibility of a giant planet lurking at the edge of the solar system, research speculating that subsurface oceans are on distant moons and planets may harbor life and the death of a space pioneer made headlines in 2016.