NASA recently announced a three-year partnership with BWXT to develop nuclear thermal rockets for future mission to Mars and beyond!

A new study by a team from UCI indicates that black hole mergers could be very common, which has implications for the study of black holes and gravitational waves

A team of European astronomers accurately measured the orbit of a star around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky way, thus confirming predictions made by Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

A new study by researchers from MIT has cast doubt on when the Moon lost its magnetic field, indicating that it lasted for another 1 billion years

Brian Koberlein reports on his new Kickstarter to develop a TV show called Big Science

The complex multilayered sunshield that will protect the delicate optics and state of the art infrared science instruments of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now fully installed on the spacecraft bus in California, completing another major milestone on the path to launch, NASA announced.

A recent study by an international team of scientists has revealed four Earth-like planets around tau Ceti, a Sun-like star just that is 12 light years away!

The outer planets of the Solar System - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are gas giants, a designation which applies to planets that are primary composed of hydrogen and helium.

In preparation for their historic flyby with a KBO, the New Horizons team conducted observations that indicated that the target may be different than previously thought

A team from Standford University's Space Rendezvous Laboratory have created a small-scale demonstrator of Starshade technology to help in the hunt for exoplanets.

The COHERENT experiment, an international collaboration, made the first-ever detection of neutrinos bumping into the nucleus of other atoms

Located 58,000 light from years, in the northern constellation Coma Berenices, is the globular cluster known as Messier 53.

Before the year is out, the long awaited debut launch of the triple barreled Falcon Heavy rocket may at last be in sight says SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk, as he forthrightly acknowledges it comes with high risk and released a stunning launch and landing animation (see below) earlier today, Aug. 4.

The Voyager probes, humanity's longest-running and farthest-reaching missions, are celebrating their 40th anniversaries this summer!

A new study led by researchers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center indicates that Proxima b would be likely to retain an Earth-like atmosphere.

A recent study by a team of astronomers, using data provided by Hubble, has provided the best evidence to date of a stratosphere around an exoplanet.