The Orion space capsule that will send astronauts on a flyby of the Moon just arrived at the Kennedy Space Center for final assembly.

What's up with the Sun? As we've said previous, what the Sun isn't doing is the big news of 2018 in solar astronomy. Now, the Sun sent us another curve ball, with the strange tale of growing sunspot AR 2720.

According to new research by a team of Japanese researchers, samples from the Itokawa asteroid provide new clues to the asteroid's evolutionary timeline.

Using the Goddard Earth Observing System Forward Processing (GEOS FP) model, NASA recently released a visualization that showed all the aerosols that existed in our atmosphere on a single day.

The latest gem to come from the second release of Gaia data is a 3D map that shows the positions of 400,000 stars within 10,000 light years.

According to a new study, the Milky Way Galaxy experienced two periods of star formation, with a two-billion dormancy period in between.

According to new research that was presented at the 2018 Goldschmidt Conference, "water worlds" may be more common than previously thought.

A team of American scientists have found the first definitive evidence of water on the Moon, which makes plans for a lunar base that much more feasible!

Watching the heavens on a nightly, or even casual basis? The web and modern technology has certainly altered the landscape of modern astronomy, (mostly) for the better. Once, we all huddled around cardboard planispheres, illuminated by red flashlights; now, it's now a common sight to see illuminated smartphone apps accompanying telescopes at star parties, all waving skyward with virtual planetarium programs guiding users around the night sky.

As part of their plan to establish an "international lunar village" on the Moon in the coming decades, the ESA is experimenting with making bricks out of lunar dust simulants.

According to a new study by a Canadian-led team of researchers, the atmospheric phenomena known as STEVE is not an aurora, but something else entirely.

A new study by an international team of researchers indicates that "mini-moons" will soon be detectable, and could provide opportunities for research and asteroid mining.

Lockheed Martin recently provided a first-look at the space habitat they are designing, as part of NASA's program to return astronauts to the Moon and sending crewed missions to Mars.

According to a new study by an international team of researchers, a good way to look for signs on life on exoplanets would be toe examine the ejected material of asteroid impacts.

Using the Subaru Telescope, a team of astronomers recently probed a 500 light-year region of the early Universe and found that it contained less galaxies than they were expecting.

A periodic comet may put on a fine show for northern hemisphere viewers over the next few months. Comet 21/P Giacobini-Zinner is currently a fine binocular comet shining at +8th magnitude and cruising across the constellation Cassiopeia. This places it above the horizon for the entire night for observers north of the equator in August, transiting the local meridian at local dawn.

A new study by a team from the University of Pennsylvania suggests using maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) to find evidence of extra-solar Oort Clouds (EXOCs).

A team from the University of Manchester recently tested their prototype for a spinning heat shield, a lightweight, compact design that could provide cost-effective protection for future space missions.