The Arecibo Observatory suffered some serious damage last month, but an assessment and investigation is underway and repairs will follow!

China's mysterious reusable spaceplane recently launched and has returned to Earth after spending two days in space.

In this latest installment in our Fermi series, we take a look at the possibility that advanced civilizations only have a brief window within which to communicate.

China is almost finished its floating spaceport in the Yellow Sea, which will begin making regular launches and servicing rockets in the near future!

A new study proposes that alien life could evolve from nuclear interactions rather than atomic ones.

A new tool called the Black Hole Collision Calculator let's users see just how powerful a collision between a black hole and any other celestial object would be.

It's one of the stranger observations in ancient literature. A curious account comes to us by the 1st century AD Roman scholar Pliny the Elder, concerning the exploits of Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who notes that: "The Sun's radiance makes the fix'd stars invisible in the daytime, although they are shining as much as in the night, which becomes manifest at a solar eclipse and also when the star is reflected in a very deep well."