Located about 2300 light-years from Earth, in the direction of the Lyra constellation, is the planetary nebula known as Messier 57 (aka. the Ring Nebula)

A new study by an international team of scientists indicates how future missions to Mars should look for a rare element which could indicate that life once existed there

An international team of scientists recently used the Hubble space telescope to spot a unique binary asteroid that behaves like a comet in in the Main Asteroid Belt.

NASA is working on developing a space station in a cis-lunar orbit that will serve as the jumping off point to exploring the Solar System; it's known as the Deep Space Gateway.

The Hyperloop One Global Challenge recently wrapped up, and one of the winners was a team who proposed building a line between Toronto and Montreal

At the European Planetary Science Conference in Riga this week, scientists urged Europe to remain committed to the AIDA asteroid mission

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Barely a year after NASA's OSIRIS-REx robotic asteroid sampler launched on a trailblazing mission to snatch a soil sample from a pristine asteroid and return it to Earth for research analysis, the probe is speeding back home for a swift slingshot around our home planet on Friday Sept. 22 to gain a gravity assist speed boost required to complete its journey to the carbon rich asteroid Bennu and back.

A new study by a team of researchers from the CfA argues that a Fast Radio Burst happens with every passing second in the observable Universe

A new study from Brown University reveals that there may be a lot more surface ice on Mercury than previously thought

Researchers are proposing a fleet of tiny electric sail powered satellites to explore over 300 separate objects in the asteroid belt.

A new study by a team from the University of Bordeaux has turned the Asteroid Belt's origins on its head, claiming it started empty and gradually filled up

A new study from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, with the support of NASA, has found evidence of subsurface ice on Vesta.

Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman will acquire Orbital ATK for approximately $9.2 billion, in a deal the companies announced Monday and they say will "expand capability" is largely "complementary" and involves "little overlap."

A new study by an international team of scientists takes a look at Venus' mysterious night side, which revealed some unexpected atmospheric phenomena

A new study by scientists from the University of Texas at Austin has showed how Mars has changed geologically over the past few billion years as a result of water-based erosion

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Concluding a month long stay at the International Space Station (ISS) a SpaceX Dragon cargo freighter loaded with some two tons of NASA research samples, hardware and micestonauts returned home to make a successful splashdown in the Pacific on Sunday, Sept. 17.