Pluto's dark side revealed by moonlight in pictures from New Horizons

The well known "Overview Effect" idea was first inspired by science fiction. "Back in the 1970s I found Gerard K. O’Neill's ideas highly convincing. I had an epiphany: those living in a space community would have an “overview” of Earth. They would see a whole system, interconnected and interrelated"

The Taurid meteor shower of 2021 is peaking now. Here's what to expect.

The recent Chinese hypersonic missile tests have fueled concerns about an accelerating arms race between the U.S., China, and Russia. The Chinese weapons system consists of two parts: a fractional orbital bombardment system (FOBS) and a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). Here's how it works.