A recent study by a team of researchers from University College London has shown that there really is no such thing as "up", or any other preferred direction, in the Universe
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A new study by a team of Russian researchers has shown that in the interiors of ice giants like Uranus and Neptune and moons like Europa, conditions could be just right to maintain "impossible" chemicals
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The Curiosity rover may need to divert its course soon, as its current path could cause it to contaminate a small pocket of water on Mars' surface
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA's OSIRIS-REx hi tech robotic explorer blasted off this evening in spectacular fashion from the Florida Space Coast on a ground breaking 7 year sampling trek to Asteroid Bennu and back to gather grains of 4.5 billion year old alien sand that could potentially reveal significant answers to the origins of life on Earth.
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Elon Musk blew our minds when he suggested that it's highly likely we're all living in a computer simulation. Seriously? Why would he think this, and how could we tell if it's true?
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A new study of the Milky Way galaxy reveals the ages of different parts of the galaxy, and tells the story of the Milky Way's formation and evolution.
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A team of astronomers have discovered a globular cluster that stands out as distinct from all others -- a fossil that takes us back to when our galaxy first formed.
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In the aftermath of the explosion that took place on Sept 1st, SpaceX may be facing legal hurdles with the company that owned the satellite that was lost
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In the latest new to emerge about the "impossible" EM Drive, it now appears that the technology has passed the critical milestone of peer review
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Freddie Mercury, the iconic front man from the band Queen, is having an asteroid named after him to commemorate what would have been his 70th birthday.
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Great ready for the final eclipse of 2016, with a penumbral lunar eclipse on September 16th visible from Europe to Australia.
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Top NASA managers have formally approved the launch of the agency's InSight Lander to the Red Planet in the spring of 2018 following a postponement from this spring due to the discovery of a vacuum leak in a prime science instrument supplied by France.
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Colonizing Venus presents many advantages and challenges, and could be done using cities that float on top of its dense atmosphere
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Black holes absorb everything that falls into them, including photons of light and heat. So what does it mean to ask, what temperature are black holes?
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The first images of Jupiter have arrived from the Juno spacecraft and they are a tantalizing taste of what's to come.
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Fossils discovered in Greenland - which are 3.7 billion years old - are the oldest evidence of life on Earth to date, and could help in the search for ancient life on Earth
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Despite what you might think, the largest desert in the world is actually in Antarctica. In addition to being the coldest place on the planet, is also the driest
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Now more than a year after its historic flyby of Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft continues to speed through the Kuiper Belt. The spacecraft recently spotted another KBO, one of Pluto's pals, Quaoar.
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Since the late 17th century, scientists have been attempting to measure the speed of light, with increasingly accurate results
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NASA's new GLOBE Observer app allows users to observe the sky in their location and share the data with NASA.
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Four years after a nail biting touchdown on the Red Planet, NASA's SUV-sized Curiosity rover is at last nearing the long strived for "Murray Buttes" formation on the lower reaches of Mount Sharp.
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A new study offers a possible explanation for the strange surface features on Mars' moon of Phobos, which could help us to better understand the Red Planet too
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After reviewing data from the Sentinel-1A satellites on-board cameras, the ESA has determined that it suffered a collision with a tiny object in orbit
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CAPE CANAVERAL, FL — The telecommunications giant SES is boldly going where no company has gone before by making history in inking a deal today, Aug. 30, to fly the expensive SES-10 commercial satellite on the first ever launch of a 'Flight-Proven' SpaceX booster - that's been used and recovered.
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Astrophysicists looking for the Milky Way's missing matter have found that our black hole was very active only 6 million years ago.
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Relying on Hubble data, a new study has suggested that (contrary to hot and cold models) dark matter may actually be "warm" in nature
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In Africa this week? The final solar eclipse of 2016 graces the continent this week. This eclipse is annular only, as the Moon fails to fully cover the disk of the Sun.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - OSIRIS-Rex, the first American sponsored probe aimed at retrieving "pristine materials" from the surface of an asteroid and returning them to Earth has been fully assembled at its Florida launch base and is ready to blastoff ten days from today on Sep. 8. It's a groundbreaking mission that could inform us about astrobiology and the 'Origin of Life.'
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Outside of the ESO, there are others who have been hunting for exoplanets around Proxima Centauri - including Dr. Kipping of the Cool Worlds lab
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We're not saying its aliens, but this could be the most enticing signal from space since the famous "Wow! Signal" in 1977.
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I've always struggled to take a good picture of the Milky Way, even though I've got pretty good camera gear. My friends Cory and Tanja Schmitz from Photographing Space give me tips and advice to taking a better Milky Way photo, and then show me what to do in Photoshop to make it even better.
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NASA has taken a major step towards the launch of its Mars 2020 rover, which included awarding a launch services contract to United Launch Alliance.
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NASA's JUNO spacecraft successfully swooped over the Jovian cloud tops today, Saturday, Aug. 27, gathering its first up close images and science observations of the 'King of the Planets' since braking into orbit on America's Independence Day.
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A SpaceX commercial Dragon cargo ship returned to Earth today, Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, by splashing down safely in the Pacific Ocean - thus concluding more than a month long stay at the International Space Station (ISS). The vessel was jam packed with some 1.5 tons of NASA cargo and critical science samples for eagerly waiting researchers.
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There are places in the Solar System where the forces of gravity balance out perfectly. Places we can use to position satellites, space telescopes and even colonies to establish our exploration of the Solar System. These are the Lagrange Points.
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Upon his return to Earth, astronaut Jeff Williams will have established a new record for most time spent in space, at 534 days
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On Saturday, August 27th, NASA's Juno mission will once again make history as it conducts the closest flyby of Jupiter to date
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An effectbased on the observations of over 4,500 citizen scientists in the UK during the partial eclipse on March 20, 2015, this effect is not just a figment of anyone's imagination; it is a real phenomenon.
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With so many exoplanet discoveries around distant (and neighboring) stars, it might be time to assess what terms like "Earth-like" really mean.
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