New, declassified audio that caught the moment astronauts on the Apollo 10 heard “outer spacey” music as they passed behind the dark side of the moon was released by NASA recently. The is the newest focus of the Science Channel’s "NASA’s Unexplained Files." During the uncovered audio, you can hear astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan discuss the strange music as they made the hour-long trip around the moon. “The music even sounds outer-spacey, doesn't...

Keele University astronomerPierre Maxted and a team of space researchers announced this month, in the journal ,that they had discovered five new exoplanets outside our solar system. Classified as "hot Jupiters" for theirorbital proximity to their parent star and being much warmer than our own Jupiter,Maxted and his space colleagues detected the distant extrasolar objects using theWide Angle Search for Planets cameras at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland, South Africa. "These discoveries were made using the WASP-South instrument...

The image on the left is a combination of five 300-s exposures tracking the 'asteroid,' while the image on the right is a smoothed version to help enhance the tail (indicated by the arrow), proving that it is in fact a comet. (M. Kelley/S. Protopapa/UMD) Astronomers with their eyes on the sky thought they spotted an asteroid, but a closer look revealed a comet. It was initially labeled as asteroid 2016 BA14 by the Pan-STARRS survey, but a group of...

For the past year, astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have been on a mission in space, collecting research and capturing mesmerizing photos of the Earth. Tuesday, they will return to Earth, where their families, fans and extensive testing awaits them. During the mission, Kelly - the first American to spend a year in space - captured several big weather events and even the Super Bowl. However, some of his photos also revealed how frail the Earth and its...

It was one of the most intense explosions in Earth's atmosphere in three years, and yet it took weeks for anyone to talk about it. NASA announced last week that back at the beginning of February, a meteor exploded over the Atlantic Ocean. Turns out, it was one for the record books. The fireball shot through the sky over the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Brazil on Feb 6. As the meteor disintegrated, it released an, the BBC...

The spectacular new image of the Milky Way marks the completion of the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL). This is the sharpest such map yet made, and compliments those from recent space-based surveys. (European Southern Observatory ) In the most detailed image of the Milky Way yet, the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope captured the star-forming regions of the galaxy, which will help astronomers estimate the density of the clouds distributed along its plane. According to...

Is it possible for human space travel to Mars in half an hour? One University of California physics professor thinks so. ...

Pictured here is the supermoon during a lunar eclipse over Italy on Sept. 27, 2015. (Image via Giuseppe Petricca) Just days after the "" was seen on clear nights all over the world, photographer Giuseppe Petricca released several photos of an even rarer lunar event. On Sept. 27, 2015, the supermoon combined with a total lunar eclipse in some parts of the world to create the image at the top of this page, as seen in Pisa, Italy. Much of...

It's been a long year in space for astronaut Scott Kelly, but for those who are studying the effects of space on his body, the work is only beginning. Kelly will plunge back to Earth on Tuesday as his stint aboard the International Space Station comes to an end, setting a new American spaceflight record , according to Gizmodo. The entire time he's been in space, NASA has also been collecting data from someone else– Kelly's twin brother, Mark, a...

Sirius, the brightest star seen from Earth, could have some incoming competition. (Tommy Hsu/Getty Images) A team of Russian scientists are aiming to send a special satellite into orbit with one goal: to become the brightest star in the night sky. Well, second brightest, right next to the sun, of course. The team from Moscow State Mechanical Engineering Universitybehind this bright idea has raised more than 1.7 million rubles ($22,000) toward launching Mayak - Russian for the word "beacon" -...

A meteor streaked over Scotland Monday and was caught on camera as it lit up the skies, alarming residents who described it as a “fireball.” The event took place around 6:45 p.m. local time, illuminating the skies over the cities of Aberdeen and Inverness, reports The Independent. An influx of calls came into the local police station with many people reporting the spectacular flash and the loud rumble that accompanied it, Sky News reports. According to a spokeswoman for Police...

American astronaut Scott Kelly's mission to space that enthralled the world, captivating viewers for nearly a year, came to an end at 11:26 p.m. EST (10:26 a.m. March 2 Kazakhstan time). That's when Kelly and his Russian cosmonaut partner Mikhail Kornienko completed their “Year in Space” mission aboard the International Space Station with a safe landing on Earth. The spaceflight pioneers, along with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, who was aboard the ISS for the past six months, touched down in...