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)

Engineers carried out a critical hot fire engine test firing with the first new engine controlling 'brain' that will command the shuttle-era liquid fueled engines powering the inaugural mission of NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket.

There are so many cool astronomical sights to see in late March including Mercury and a brand new comet!

Europa is fine and all, but where we really need to go is Saturn's moon Titan. Let's look at some cool ideas for probes to fully explore this world.

Juno will perform its 5th flyby of Jupiter, Monday, March 27, at 1:52 a.m. PDT. Prepare yourself for some fantastic images.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - The second round of March Launch Madness continued with the thunderous nighttime blastoff of a ULA Delta IV rocket powering a super swift military communications satellite to orbit in a collaborative effort of U.S. Allies from North America, Europe and Asia and the U.S. Air Force.

Watch several dozen stars in the center of our galaxy circle a massive, black "nothing."

A new study released by a team of international scientists has offered another explanation for Recurring Slope Lineae on Mars, one which doesn't rely on the existence of water.

Synlight, the world's largest artificial Sun, will help German researchers extract hydrogen fuel from water using solar energy.

Images presented at the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference this week showed the first indication of gravity waves around the Martian equator.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The fierce competition for lucrative launch contracts from the U.S. Air Force just got more even intense with the announcement that SpaceX outbid arch rival United Launch Alliance (ULA) to launch an advanced military Global Positioning System (GPS III) navigation satellite to orbit in approx. 2 years.

If the results in a new study are accepted, the dinosaur family tree will be getting overhauled.