Catch a rare conjunction of Mercury with the Moon next week, and an occultation for a very privileged few.
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For the remainder of 2016, all payloads traveling to the US National Lab aboard the ISS will feature a mission patch with Marvel characters
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Astronomers have theorized there could be an intermediate stage between neutron stars and black holes called quark stars. Are they out there?
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Located in the southern Sagittarius constellation is the Trifid Nebula, a bright star-forming region and combination nebula
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A comparison between the rocket that delivered the Apollo astronauts to the Moon, and the one that promises to deliver astronauts and colonists to Mars
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MICHOUD ASSEMBLY FACILITY, NEW ORLEANS, LA - NASA has just finished welding together the very first fuel tank for America's humongous Space Launch System (SLS) deep space rocket currently under development - and Universe Today had an exclusive up close look at the liquid hydrogen (LH2) test tank shortly after its birth as well as the first flight tank, during a tour of NASA's New Orleans rocket manufacturing facility on Friday, July 22, shortly after completion of the milestone assembly operation.
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The asteroid that punched an "eye" in the Moon is about 10 times more massive than originally thought. Researchers say a protoplanet-sized body slammed into the Moon about 3.8 billion years ago, creating the area called Imbrium Basin that forms the right eye of the so-called "Man in the Moon."
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With a long history of contributing to space exploration, the Canadian Space Agency is looking for the next generation of Canadian astronauts
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With the upcoming test of the Falcon Heavy rocket, SpaceX is looking to expand its facilities by introducing two new landing pads
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Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot is a huge cyclonic storm big enough to swallow the Earth. But it's been getting smaller over time, while other storms have been growing. What does the future hold for this Jupiterricane?
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We toast the 40th anniversary of the dual Viking missions to Mars this week. Time to celebrate an achievement that gave us our first visceral feeling of standing on another planet.
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Looking for a way to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission landing on the Moon? Here are a few different ways look back on this historic event and take advantage of advances in technology or new data.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Following a flawless post midnight blastoff two mornings ago, a pair of NASA astronauts executed a flawless capture of the newest SpaceX Dragon supply ship at International Space Station early this morning, July 20, carrying 2.5 tons of priceless research equipment and gear for the resident astronauts and cosmonauts.
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Venus' orbit has some strange properties, which includes taking 243.025 days to rotate once, and the fact that it rotates backwards compared to Earth
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Some of the greatest discoveries in astronomy have been made by watching how the skies change over time. Today we talk about these techniques, and an observatory that will revolutionize time-based astronomy.
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Hosting an evening star party this summer? Then you're in for a treat. Starting this week, all five naked eye planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) are visible in the evening sky at dusk for a bried few weeks.
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As part of their Journey to Mars, NASA has unveiled the compact exercise system its astronauts will use to stay healthy during the trip
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Located in the constellation of Ophiuchus, some 28,700,000 light years from Earth, lies the faint globular cluster known as Messier 19
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A look at the Solar Systems largest planet (Jupiter) and how it stacks up in terms of size, mass, satellites, and composition to our home planet
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Get ready to tune in the Red Planet on your earbuds. NASA recently announced that it would include a microphone in its Mars 2020 Mission.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The outlook is outstanding for a dramatic midnight blastoff of the next SpaceX commercial cargo Dragon jam packed with some 5000 pounds of critical payloads and research supplies for NASA and heading to the space station on Monday, July 18 - that also simultaneously features an experimental land landing that promises to rock loudly across the Florida space coast and one day slash launch costs.
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After a decade of research, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey has released the most detailed 3D map of the Universe to date
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Images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have spotted a growing dark region called a coronal hole, which is the cause of high-speed solar winds that can disrupt satellite communications.
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In the northern skies, flanked by the Big Dipper, lies the Bootes constellation, one of the traditional constellations listed by Ptolemy
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Using carbon nanotubes, a team of NASA engineers has created a series of revolutionary new telescope mirrors for a Cubesat telescope
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NASA's newly arrived Jovian orbiter Juno has transmitted its first imagery since reaching orbit last week on July 4 after swooping over Jupiter's cloud tops and powering back up its package of state-of-the-art science instruments for unprecedented research into determining the origin of our solar systems biggest planet.
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Galileo's telescope, an instrument he made himself and used to revolutionize astronomy, still manages to inspire us today
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The EPIC camera on-board NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has captured images of the Moon passing in front of the Earth as the Earth rotates behind it.
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The Milky Way Galaxy is a very, very big place. And figuring out where Earth resides inside of it has been no simple task
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The SABRE (Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) being developed for the European Space Agency could be ready for test firing in four years.
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Thanks to the ESA's Cluster mission, scientists now know that part of the plasma found in our magnetosphere is coming from us!
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Stars can spin faster or slower than the Sun. What's the fastest that's ever been discovered, and what's the fastest speed you can have before they tear themselves apart?
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A dwarf planet has been discovered beyond Neptune. It's about 700 km in size, and its orbit takes it 120 times further from the Sun than the Earth is.
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In the far-flung system of CVSO 30, two planetary candidates have been found with very different orbits - presenting new opportunities for exoplanet study
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A flawless shakedown mission from Russia's newly modified Soyuz capsule successfully delivered a new multinational crew to the Space Station early Saturday, July 9 after a two day orbital chase.
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What if the Earth just stopped dead in its tracks while orbiting the Sun? It would plummet straight down of course, but how long would it take to actually crash into the Sun?
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Astronomers discover the first exoplanet orbiting within a triple star system and manage to obtain a direct image of the new world.
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Construction has just finished on the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-aperture telescope
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As part of Juno's mission to Jupiter, Lego has fashioned three figurines (representing Jupiter, Juno and Galileo) to accompany the probe on its mission
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Astronomers have now determined a nearby brown dwarf has some exciting characteristics: its atmosphere is full of clouds of water vapor. This is the first time water clouds have been detected outside of our Solar System.
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An international trio of astronauts and cosmonauts representing the United States, Russia and Japan blasted off in the early morning Kazakh hours today, July 7, for a new mission of science and discovery on the International Space Station (ISS).
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According to a recent study from Cornell University, the prebiotic conditions for life might exist on Titan, despite it being cold and having no water
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