Space

Welcome back to our Fermi Paradox series, where we take a look at possible resolutions to Enrico Fermi’s famous question, “Where Is Everybody?” Today, we examine the possibility that Earth hasn’t been visited by aliens because interstellar travel is not very practical!

More spoilers than a Delta Flyer. With only two episodes left of “Star Trek: Discovery” season 3 on CBS All Access after today, the origin of the Burn is clearly not as big of a plot driver than, say, the rise of Control or the origin of the Red Angel […]

If fan service doesn’t float your boat, if you’re not bothered by nostalgia and if adherence to canon isn’t the be-all-end-all of existence, then you’re probably already a big fan of “The Expanse” on Amazon Prime Video. And we can tell you the fifth season is the best yet. 

Eclipses, meteor showers, occultations and more in store for the next year of astronomy 2021.

A moon-orbiting probe got a stunning up-close view of the “great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn from Earth’s rocky satellite. 

Astronauts on the International Space Station are getting a special visit from a strange spacecraft powered by reindeer and carrying a jolly old elf. Yes, Santa has reached the final frontier. 

We’ll apparently see one more big private spaceflight milestone before 2020 is done.

This Friday (Dec. 25), “Space Chat” will explore what holidays are like in space. 

There’s a powerful scene in the movie “Contact” (one of my favs) where lead character Ellie Arroway is sitting among an array of telescopes and hears the first alien signal – an ominous pulse – received by humanity. She races back to the control center where the array is pointed […]