PLAYALINDA/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX is targeting Saturday Oct. 7 for blastoff of the SES-11/EchoStar 105 commercial telecomsat following a successful static fire test of the first stage engines of the 'used' Falcon 9 booster, as a Florida Space Coast gator gazed on in wondrous glee as the engines fired away Monday afternoon, Oct. 2.

At the recent International Astronomical Congress, Lockheed Martin shared details of their Mars Base Camp, a key component in NASA"s upcoming crewed mission to Mars

Our own Matt Williams has his first published novel out, the Cronian Incident. A mystery novel based on the future human exploration of the Solar System.

The most powerful space telescope ever built will have to wait on the ground for a few more months into 2019 before launching to the High Frontier and looking back nearly to the beginning of time and unraveling untold astronomical secrets on how the early Universe evolved – Engineers need a bit more time to complete the Webb telescopes incredibly complex assembly and testing here on Earth.

Engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Center have just conducted a crucial test of the thruster that will take the Psyche mission to meet a metal asteroid.

A new study has indicated that the depletion of carbon from Earth-forming materials may have been essential to life here on Earth.

At the International Astronautical Congress this week, Elon Musk revealed his plans to conduct missions to Mars and provide aerospace trips between major cities on Earth

A new study by researchers from the University of Bristol has shed new light on how the planets like Earth and mars evolved to obtain the distinctive compositions they have today

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission captured a lovely 'Blue Marble' image of our Home Planet during last Fridays (Sept. 22) successful gravity assist swing-by sending the probe hurtling towards asteroid Bennu for a rendezvous next August on a round trip journey to snatch pristine soil samples.

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors recently made the first simultaneous detection of gravitational waves, ushering in a new era of research.

The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos and NASA announced today that Russian will be contributing modules and a docking system to the Deep Space Gateway, scheduled for construction over the next decade.

A new study by members of the New Horizons team has provided an explanation for Pluto's mysteries "bladed terrain".

A new study by a team led by the Smithsonian Institution has cast doubt on there being subsurface ice on one of Mars most-explored regions, but could also help point the way to other deposits

A new study by a team of international astronomers studies the newly-discovery Gaia 1 star cluster, resulting in new estimates on its age and composition