It's going to be almost impossible to travel to another star, but a new idea was announced that might get us to a nearby star within our lifetime. How will it work?
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In billions of years, the Sun will enter its "Red Giant" phase and expand considerably. So naturally, we have to ask, will the Earth survive?
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The long-awaited Falcon Heavy from SpaceX may make its inaugural launch in November, 2016. But what will its payload be?
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Located in the Hercules constellation is M13, a globular cluster so large and bright that its nicknamed the "Great Hercules Cluster"
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Amazing reader images of today's transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun from around the world.
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A review of last night's spectacular aurora along with a look at tonight's space weather forecast plus a recap of tomorrow's big event - the transit of Mercury.
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NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD - It's Mesmerizing ! That's the overwhelming feeling expressed among the fortunate few setting their own eyeballs on the newly exposed golden primary mirror at the heart of NASA's mammoth James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - a sentiment shared by the team building the one-of-its-kind observatory and myself during a visit this week by Universe Today.
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In the northern skies lies the constellation Auriga, one of the 44 described by Ptolemy and one of the 88 constellations recognized today by the IAU
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The planet Mars has a highly eccentric orbit around the Sun, and takes a little under two years for it to complete a single orbit
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SpaceX has hired super-hero movie costume designer Jose Fernandez to design space suits for its astronauts.
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SpaceX scored a double whammy of successes this morning, May 6, following the stunning nighttime launch of a Japanese comsat to orbit on the firm's Falcon 9 rocket and nailing the breathtaking touchdown of the spent first stage just minutes later - furthering the goal of rocket reusability
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Less than 4 weeks after launching a Dragon cargo ship for NASA to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX is poised for their next nearly simultaneous Falcon 9 rocket launch and first stage landing attempt for what promises to be a spectacular skyshow shortly after midnight on Friday, May 6.
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It is possible that we could someday transform Ceres, the largest object in the Asteroid Belt, to make it friendly for human habitation?
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If you notice a rise in meteors before dawn now through the weekend, you're not imagining things. It's the annual peak of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, when pieces of Halley's Comet strike our atmosphere.
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The unexplained results from two separate experiments at the Large Hadron Collider point to the possible discovery of a new type of particle.
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In the coming years, NASA will be launching its Starshade, a large spacecraft that will block the bright light of distant stars to make spotting expolanets easier
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Surface features on Mars may have been caused by boiling water.
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Get set to observe binocular Comet C/2013 X1 PanSTARRS this summer, as it moves from the dawn to the dusk sky. Here's our handy guide, with key dates, predictions and more.
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Messier 12, a globular cluster located some 15,700 light-years from Earth, is one of the brightest objects in the Ophiuchus constellation
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The science team leading NASA's New Horizons mission that unveiled the true nature of Pluto's long hidden looks during the history making maiden close encounter last July, have published a fresh global map that offers the sharpest and most spectacular glimpse yet of the mysterious, icy world.
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A critical fuel control valve has been faulted for the Atlas V launch anomaly that forced a premature shutdown of the rockets first stage engines during its most recent launch of a Cygnus cargo freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) last month - that nevertheless was successful in delivering the payload to its intended orbit.
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The Fermi Space Telescope has found the source of 'Big Bird', one of the most energetic neutrinos ever detected.
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On the ecliptic plane, bordered by constellations of Perseus, Pisces, and Taurus, is the ancient constellation known as Aries
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Russia's new spaceport, the Vostochny Cosmodrome, will allow Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, to conduct the bulk of its launches on home soil.
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Mercury is a hot and hostile planet, but it has many things going for it that make it an attractive option for colonizing and even partial terraforming
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover successfully bored a brand new hole in Mars at a tantalizing sandstone outcrop in the 'Lubango' fracture zone this past weekend on Sol 1320, Apr. 23, and is now carefully analyzing the shaken and sieved drill tailings for clues to Mars watery past atop the Naukluft Plateau.
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Among Sir Isaac Newton's many contributions to science was the discovery of gravity. one of the fundamental forces of the Universe
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How astronomers found an potentially new and exciting exoplanetary system lurking on a glass plate stored away for nearly a century.
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SpaceX announced plans today, April 27, for the first ever private mission to Mars which involves sending an uncrewed version of the firms Dragon spacecraft to accomplish a propulsive soft landing - and to launch it as soon as 2018 including certain technical assistance from NASA.
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Within the Saturn system, there are many moons which could present the opportunity terraforming. But to do so presents many challenges.
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Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have identified the lost Beagle 2 lander on the Martian surface, and might explain why the Beagle 2 failed to deploy.
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Earlier this morning, SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced via twitter that his company plans to mount its first mission to Mars by 2018
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The time to observe Mars is now, as the Red Planet heads towards a favorable opposition in May 2016. Here's our complete guide to all things Martian, including observing, imaging and more.
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Planetary scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a dark mini-moon orbiting the distant dwarf planet Makemake. The moon, nicknamed MK 2, is roughly 160 km (100 miles) wide and orbits about 20,000 km (13,000 miles) from Makemake.
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It's tempting to think that life is plentiful in the Universe, if only we could locate it. But a pair of researchers using Bayesian analysis have poured cold water on that idea.
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NASA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne to design and develop an advanced solar electric propulsion (SEP) system that will serve as a critical enabling technology for sending humans and robots on deep space exploration missions to cislunar space, asteroids and the Red Planet.
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A recent study released by CU Anschutz indicates that prolonged time in space can cause liver damage, adding to overall health concerns
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Stunning high definition views of Earth's auroras and dancing lights as seen from space like never before have just been released by NASA in the form of ultra-high definition videos (4K) captured from the International Space Station (ISS).
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Jupiter's four largest moons - the Galileans - have long been considered as possible sites for human habitation, and even terraforming
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China claims success in an experiment designed to test mammalian reproductive cell development in low-gravity.
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Are you having trouble keeping track of all the planets in the Solar System? Good news! Astronomers have found evidence that there's another huge planet far out in the Solar System. Textbooks will need to be rewritten again. You're welcome.
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