A new study by a team of astronomers from the UK and Switzerland explores how Planet 9 could have ended up on the outskirts of our Solar System

TITUSVILLE/CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the KSC Visitor Complex and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station have reopened as of today and yesterday, respectively, in the aftermath of Cat 1 hurricane force winds from Hurricane Irma that lashed the Florida Space Coast on Saturday, Sunday and Monday (Sept. 9/10/11) – forcing launch delays and leaving damaged and destroyed homes, buildings, infrastructure and launch viewing locations in its wake - see photos.

New observations of WASP-12b conducted with the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the planet's sun-facing side "eats light".

A study led by researchers from the ESO has discovered an extremely hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet that has titanium oxide in its atmosphere

Barely a week and a half after the thrilling conclusion to the record breaking space endurance mission by NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, a new Russian-American trio blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian Soyuz capsule and boarded safely early this morning Wednesday, Sept. 13, after arriving as planned on a fast track orbital trajectory.

A recent study involving data collected by the K2 mission has revealed three possible Super-Earths around a nearby Sun-like star.

Wondering where are the fleeting inner solar system planets are this month? While Jupiter and Saturn sink into the dusk on the far side of the Sun this month, the real action transpires in the dawn sky in mid-September, with a complex set of early morning conjunctions, groupings and occultations.

A new study by an international team of scientists has revealed that modern galaxy shapes may be the result of early galaxies swelling with new stars

Before it makes its final plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, the Cassini spacecraft made one last flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon

The largest solar flare in twelve years was recently witnessed by a team of UK scientists, and could teach us a great deal about predicting space weather

A new study by an international team of astrophysicists has demonstrated that gravitational waves could be detected coming from exploding stars

Located in the northern constellation of Lyra, roughly 32,900 light years from Earth, is the globular star cluster known as Messier 56

A new study by scientists from the John Hopkins Univeristy Applied Physics Lab (JHUAPL) indicates that Jupiter's auroras may be more mysterious than we thought

TITUSVILLE/CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA and Air Force officials have ordered the closure of the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as deadly Cat 4 Hurricane Irma relentlessly targets a direct hit on Florida and forces millions of residents and tourists to evacuate catastrophic consequences coming tonight, Saturday, Sept. 9 and throughout the weekend.

A new study by a team of European astrophysicists has turned exoplanet-hunting on its head by asking "could aliens detect Earth?"

A new study by an international team of researchers indicates that older Sun-like stars emit less harmful X-rays, a finding which has implications for exoplanet habitability