A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics indicates that UV radiation may be the key to finding life on other planets

Located in the southern skies is the Crux constellation (aka. the "Southern Cross"), a constellation that played an important role in the history of navigation and cultural astronomy

A new study by an international team of astronomers indicates that the outermost planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system could still have significant amounts of water.

A team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is moving into Phase II of their plan to send a clockwork rover to explore Venus

Using the Green Bank Telescope, researchers with Breakthrough Listen recently detected repeating fast radio bursts coming from a distant galaxy.

The second Hyperloop Pod Design Competition was a success, with teams from all over the world testing their pod car designs at SpaceX test track in California.

A new study conducted by an international team of astronomers has revealed two new "Warm Jupiter" exoplanets in two distant star systems.

Ready to hunt for low-flying space rocks? We've got an interesting pass of a Near Earth Asteroid this upcoming U.S. Labor Day weekend one that just slides over the +10th magnitude line into binocular range. We're talking about asteroid 3122 Florence which passes 4.4 million miles from our fair planet (that's 7 million kilometers, about 18 times the distance from Earth to the Moon) this Friday on September 1st at 12:06 Universal Time (UT)/ 8:06 AM Eastern Daylight Saving Time (EDT).

In a recent interview, former astronaut and science communicator Chris Hadfield advocating settling the Moon before going to Mars.

Located in the Sagittarius Constellation, roughly 17,600 light-years from Earth, is the globular star cluster known as Messier 55

When it is deployed in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will spend some of its time studying the "Ocean Worlds" of Europa and Enceladus, hoping to find evidence of life.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — A Cold War-era derived Peacekeeper ICBM missile formerly armed with multiple nuclear warheads and now modified as a payload orbiter successfully launched an urgently needed space situational awareness and space junk tracking satellite to equatorial orbit overnight this morning, Aug. 26, for the U.S. military from the Florida Space Coast.

A new study from the University of Antioquia suggests that the mysterious behavior of Tabby's Star could be due to a ringed gas giant.

The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab recently submitted a proposal to NASA for a robotic mission to Titan known as Dragonfly.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — A gap filling space surveillance satellite that will track orbiting threats for the U.S. Air Force is set for an thrilling nighttime blastoff Friday, Aug. 25 on the maiden mission of the Minotaur IV rocket from Cape Canaveral that's powered by a retired Cold War-era ICBM missile once armed with nuclear warheads.

A new research study by a group of astronomers, based on observation using the VLTI, has created the most detailed map of a star other than the Sun.

SANTEE, SOUTH CAROLINA - Witnessing 'Totality' during Monday's 'Great American Solar Eclipse' was a truly mesmerizing experience far beyond anything I imagined and something I will never forget -That's a sentiment shared by millions upon millions of fellow gushing spectators.

A team of European scientists analyzed five years worth of Mars Express data, which revealed interesting things about how its atmosphere interacts with solar wind