KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's Billion dollar bet on rocket recycling paid off beautifully when the world's first ever reflown rocket booster - a SpaceX Falcon 9 - roared off NASA's historic pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center and successfully delivered the next generation SES-10 TV satellite to orbit and simultaneously shot revolutionary shock waves reverberating forever across the rocket industry worldwide.

Using data from the Chandra observatory, a team of researchers witnessed the most distant X-ray explosion ever observed, and are not sure what caused it.

This week, astronauts conducting a spacewalk had to perform an impromptu patch-up job when one of the ISS' shields broke off and floated away.

The New Mexico-based aerospace company ARCA recently unveiled its Haas 2C rocket, the first single-state-to-orbit rocket in history.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX accomplished an American 'Science Triumph' with today's "Mind Blowing" and history making second launch and landing of a previously flown Falcon 9 booster that successfully delivered a massive and powerful Hi Def TV satellite to orbit for telecom giant SES from the Kennedy Space Center.

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Draper are helping NASA to develop the Solar Probe Plus, the first spacecraft that will "touch"the face of the Sun.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has completed 50,000 orbits. It has now imaged over 99% of the Martian surface.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The moment of truth is rapidly approaching as SpaceX attempts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket later today, Thursday, March 30, with the firms Falcon 9 standing proudly at historic launch complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida - ready to deliver an advanced TV broadcast satellite to orbit for the America's for telecom giant SES.

A year on Uranus lasts almost as long as a century on Earth. And because of its extreme tilt, its polar regions experience 42 years of light and dark during the course of it.

CAPE CANAVERAL/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - As the hours tick down to the history making liftoff of the world's first recycled rocket, the commercial customer SES is proclaiming high "confidence" in the flight worthiness of the "Flight-Proven" SpaceX Falcon 9 booster that will blastoff with a massive Hi-Def TV satellite for telecom giant SES this Thursday, Chief Technology Officer Martin Halliwell told Universe Today at a media briefing.

Light's finite speed make all gazing a ride in a time machine. Only a photon truly lives in the moment.

Given its extreme distance from the Sun, Pluto has a very long orbital period. As such, a single year on Pluto lasts as long as 248 Earth years, or 90,560 Earth days!

Thanks to the New Horizons mission, which conducted the first detailed study of Pluto in 2014, we know that Pluto's color is rather diverse, with patches of white, yellow and reddish-brown.

The average distance between the Sun and the Earth - 149,597,870.7 km (or 92,955,807 mi) - is known as an Astronomical Unit (AU).

SPACE VIEW PARK/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - This afternoons (Mar. 27) successful hotfire test of a recycled Falcon 9 booster at the Kennedy Space Center sets SpaceX on course for a rendezvous with history involving the first ever relaunch of a 'Flight-Proven' rocket later this week.

Located in the direction of the northern Auriga constellation, some light 4,200 years from Earth, is the open star cluster known as the Starfish cluster (aka. Messier 38)