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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The team in charge of NASA's Dawn mission have asked to extend the spacecraft's journey to a third destination.
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Now in orbit for just over a year at dwarf planet Ceres, NASA's Dawn spacecraft continues to astound us with new discoveries gleaned from spectral and imagery data captured at ever decreasing orbits as well as since the probe arrived last December at the lowest altitude it will ever reach during the mission.
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The recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster that successfully carried out history's first upright touchdown from a just flown rocket onto a droneship at sea, has just been moved back to the firms processing hanger at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for testing and eventual reflight.
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A new paper concludes that a super-Earth size planet may reside in the habitable zone of a star only 16 light years away.
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Recent findings from a team of researchers in South Africa have shown that supermassive black holes in distance are all spinning in the same direction
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A Super-Earth may have formed in our Solar System's earlier days, and then been destroyed by the Sun.
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As a gas giant, Neptune has no surface, in the traditional sense. But atop its cloud layers, some pretty amazing things are happening
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I've said in the past that the Universe isn't expanding into anything. But what if we're living in a vast multiverse, and our Universe is bumping up against other universes?
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One weld at a time, the flight hardware for NASA's mammoth new Space Launch System (SLS) booster has at last started taking shape, promising to turn years of planning and engineering discussions into reality and a rocket that will one day propel our astronauts on a 'Journey to Mars.'
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The changing brightness of the haze layers in Pluto's nitrogen atmosphere are caused by atmospheric gravity waves, according to data from New Horizons.
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Why this week's Full Moon is the smallest of 2016. It's Mini-Moon season!
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Antarctica is a rich source of Martian meteorites, which are studied for clues to the formation and evolution of the Solar System.
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The discovery of a Dwarf Dark Galaxy addresses the Missing Satellite Problem, and tells us we're on the right track in our understanding of the Universe, and Dark Matter's role in it.
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Nearly 40 years after it was first detected, a Florida astronomer proposes that comets may be to blame for the famed extraterrestrial "Wow! signal".
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The International Space Station (ISS) grew in size today, April 16, following the successful installation of an experimental new room - the BEAM expandable habitat module.
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With all the attention Breakthrough Starshot has been getting some are wondering if Alpha Cantauri is the best place to mount an interstellar mission
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SpaceX has released a slew of up close photos showing the sensational "super smooth" touchdown last week of a Falcon 9 booster on a tiny droneship at sea located several hundred miles (km) off the East coast of Florida. "This time it really went super smooth," Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX VP of Flight Reliability, told Universe Today
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ExoMars returns its first image, proof that the camera system is functioning as intended.
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Researchers have discovered the first Hyper-Velocity binary star, and its location, and possible relationship with Dark Matter, is a puzzle.
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