Juno made history the other day when it conducted the closest pass in history to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and the photos are already coming in!

Why are the planets round? For that matter, why are all the big objects in the Universe this shape? The answer has to do with how gravity works and how star systems are formed.

While we tend to think of Mach One as being the speed it takes to break the sound barrier, its a bit more complicated than that, and requires a little math!

Days after celebrating the 1st anniversary of its arrival around Jupiter, the Juno probe will give us our most detailed look at Jupiter's Giant Red Spot.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – July has begun with SpaceX maintaining a blistering pace of blasting rockets and spaceships flying to space and returning to Earth for a host of multipronged missions furthering NASA science both on the International Space Station (ISS) and beyond, commercial space endeavors in the US and overseas and fulfilling billionaire founder Elon Musk's dreams of creating reusable rocketry to slash launch costs and advance humanity's push to the stars.

A single day on the Moon lasts the equivalent of 29.5 Earth days, which is the result of its tidally-locked orbit with Earth, and Earth's orbit around the Sun.

Located between the Monoceros and Canis Major constellations, about 3,200 light years from Earth, is the heart-shaped open star cluster known as Messier 50!

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Vice President Mike Pence, during a whirlwind visit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, vowed that America would fortify our leadership in space under the Trump Administration with impressive goals by forcefully stating that "our nation will return to the moon, and we will put American boots on the face of Mars."

The ESA's Gaia mission made a startling discovery recently, detecting six stars that appear to have been kicked out of the Milky Way

Located in the southern celestial hemisphere is the constellation Corvus (Latin for "the Raven"), one of the original 48 constellations of Ptolemy.

A recent study has shown that Titan's methane lakes experience very low waves, which could make it an ideal landing spot for future missions

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – The third time proved to be the charm as SpaceX kept up a torrid 2017 launch pace and successfully ignited another Falcon 9 rocket late Wednesday, July 5, from the Florida Space Coast and delivered a powerful and heavy weight commercial TV satellite to orbit that will serve "tens of millions of customers globally," Intelsat VP for Sales Kurt Riegel, told Universe Today at NASA's Kennedy Space Center press site.

A new study by a team of astronomers has revealed that an unexpected amount of x-ray emissions coming from Pluto, which was highly unexpected.

A team of MIT graduate students was recently honored by NASA's RASC-AL competition for their MARINA space habitat design

Determining how much stuff is a single light year is daunting, considering how big the Milky Way is. But doing the math, we find that the answer is close to nothing

Mercury and Earth are a study in contrasts, with serious differences in their orbits, atmospheres, surface temperatures, and annual/diurnal cycles. But they do have a few things in common.

Light travels at a speed of 299,792,458 m/s (1080 million km/h; 671 million mph), which works out to about 9,460.5 billion km (5,878.5 billion miles) per year.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Spectacular 4th of July fireworks are coming tonight, July 3, to the Florida Space Coast courtesy of SpaceX and Intelsat with the planned near dusk launch of the commercial Epic 35e next-generation high throughput satellite to geostationary orbit for copious customers in the Americas, Europe and Africa. UPDATE: After a 2nd abort launch is now NET July 5. JULY 5 UPDATE: GO for launch attempt tonight at 7:37 PM. Weather looks good at this time