Located in the southern skies is the faint constellation of Circinus, one of the 88 modern constellations recognized by the IAU

Earlier this month, amateur astronomer Patrick Wiggins spotted a type II supernova, which happened to be the closest to our Solar System in three years.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Following SpaceX's "exceptional performance" launching an immensely powerful broadband satellite on their maiden mission for Inmarsat this week on a Falcon 9 rocket, the company CEO told Universe Today that Inmarsat was willing to conduct future launches with SpaceX - including on a "reusable rocket in the future!"

A new BBC documentary called "The Day The Dinosaurs Died" explains how things might have been different for the dinosaurs if the asteroid that caused their extinction had hit deeper ocean.

Had your fill of binocular comets? Turns out, 2017 may have saved the best for last. The past few months has seen a steady stream of dirty snowball visitations to the inner solar system, both short term periodic and long term hyperbolic. First let's run through the cometary roll call for the first part of the year: 41P Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák, 2P/Encke, 45P Honda-Markov-Padjudašáková, C/2015 ER61 PanSTARRS and finally, the latecomer to the party, C/2017 E4 Lovejoy. Next up is a comet with a much easier to pronounce (and type) name, at least to the English-speaking tongue: C/2015 V2 Johnson.

A new study has revealed how human activity has been affected the near-space environment, creating a bubble that protects against space radiation.

Using data provided by the Dawn probe, which now orbits between Ceres and the Sun (at opposition), NASA has created a new movie of the protoplanet

According to a series of simulations conducted by scientists from the University of Exeter and the Met Office, it is possible that Proxima b is indeed habitable

A new study by a team of researchers from UBC proposes a new vision of Dark Energy, where fluctuations in spacetime allow for a net expanding effect that is slowly accelerating

NASA's EPIC camera aboard NOAA's DSCOVR spacecraft solves decades old mystery that stymied Carl Sagan. Mysterious flashes are mysterious no more.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX blasted the "largest and most complicated communications satellite ever built to orbit" for London based Inmarset at twilight this evening, May 15, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center aboard an expendable Falcon 9 rocket. In fact the Inmarsat 5F4 satellite is so powerful that it has the potential to reach "hundreds of millions of customers" the Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pierce told Universe Today in a post launch interview.

A new study addresses the possibility of being able to observe alien megastructures around nearby pulsars using current instruments

Located in the Orion Constellation (just below the belt), between 1,324 and 1,364 light years from Earth, is the famous star-forming region known as the Orion Nebula.

A new paper on supernovae and the effects on Earth increases the so-called "Supernova Kill-Zone" to 50 light years.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX is targeting twilight thunder with the firms Falcon 9 rocketing skyward from the Florida Space Coast on Monday 15 carrying a commercial High-Speed broadband satellite for London based Inmarsat.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - After conducting a thorough review examining the feasibility of adding a two person crew to the first integrated launch of America's new Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket and Orion capsule on a mission that would propel two astronauts to the Moon and back by late 2019, NASA nixed the proposal during a media briefing held Friday.

A new study by a research team from the Max Planck Institute may have found a black hole that was kicked from its galaxy during a merger

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX is all set to continue their absolutely torrid launch pace in 2017 with a commercial High-Speed broadband satellite for Inmarsat on May 15 following Thursday's successful completion of a critical static hot-fire test of the first stage. Watch our video below.