Up for a challenge? Planetary action is certainly heating up this summer: Jupiter passed opposition last month, Saturn does so in June, and Mars reaches favorable viewing next month. And with dazzling Venus in the west and Mercury to joining it starting in late June, we'll soon have all of the naked eye classical planets in the evening sky. Now, I want to turn your attention towards a potential naked eye object, you've probably never seen: asteroid 4 Vesta.

According to a new study by a team of astronomers, globular clusters are several billion years younger than previously thought.

The NOAA's GOES-17 satellite, a second-generation Earth-observing satellite, recently released its "first light" pictures of Earth.

A tiny crashed exploded above the skies of Africa on Saturday, June 2nd. It turns out, it had been discovered just hours before impact.

The kilonova event that took place last year, where two neutron stars merged, is now believed to have formed a black hole.

After reviewing data from the New Horizons mission, an international team of scientists determined that Pluto has dunes made of grains of methane

Is there any way we can hope to communicate with aliens? Will they have a concept of language as we understand it, or something even more alien?

A team of engineers from the University of Glasgow and the Ukraine have proposed a self-eating rocket as a way to cut the costs of individual launches.

At this year's National Space Society's International Space Development Conference, Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon Prime would be picking up The Expanse.

In a new study led by the Lowell Observatory, a team of researchers indicate how the next-generation Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) could find the elusive Planet 9 (Planet X)

An international team of scientists recently created a unified model that shows what happens when stars are consumed by a Supermassive Black Hole.

We're in the midst of a parade of planets crossing the evening sky. Jupiter reached opposition on May 9th, and sits high to the east at dusk. Mars heads towards a fine opposition on July 27th, nearly as favorable as the historic opposition of 2003. And Venus rules the dusk sky in the west after the setting Sun for most of 2018. June is Saturn's turn, as the planet reaches opposition this year on June 27th, rising opposite to the setting Sun at dusk.

Virgin Galactic recently conducted its second successful powered test flight of the VSS Unity, bringing the company one step closer to its goal of space tourism.