The Schiaparelli lander will attempt it's landing on Mars in 15 days. Will it succeed, or join the long list of failed Martian landing attempts?

In the wake of the explosion that destroyed SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket in September, investigators are looking into possibilities other than a simple technical failure

Black holes are the most impressive objects in the Universe, but when happens when they crash into each other is absolutely mind-bending. They distort space and time itself, sending ripples out into the Universe.

There's been plenty of talk about crewed missions to Mars happening in the next few decades. So when exactly will humans set foot on Mars?

Located in the direction of Sagittarius, approximately 10,000 light years from Earth, is the beautiful Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (aka. Messier 24)

Developed near the turn of the century, CubeSat technology has made space exploration and orbital research a lot more accessible.

In about 4 billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide. Known as a galactic merger, this process is actually quite common in our Universe.

During the early Space Race, both the American and Soviet space programs conducted tests flights using animals. In the Soviet's case, this include the famous "space dogs".

After 10 years pursuing 67P/C-G and more than two years studying it from orbit, Rosetta made the comet's icy nucleus its final resting place this morning.

Earth has been photographed multiple times from Mars, both from orbit (by orbital missions) and from the surface (rover missions).

NASA's newest planetary probe, the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling spacecraft, is merrily snapping its 'First-Light' images following the successful power up and health check of all of the probes science instruments, barely three weeks after a stunning sunset launch from the Florida Space Coast - as it is outbound to asteroid Bennu.

This year's Nobel Prize in physics is expected to be be conferred on the three scientists who invented the process that led to the discovery of gravitational waves, but not the scientist who made it possible.

When it comes to space helmets, there's one rule: you keep your helmet on. But there might be a couple of places in the Solar System where you can take your helmet off, just for a few moments, and not die instantly.

Radiocarbon dating (aka. carbon dating) measures the half-life of carbon-14, which occurs naturally in our atmosphere, to determine the age of organic matter.

Some of the questions Elon Musk fielded at his recent presentation were truly embarrassing. But he handled it well.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VISITOR COMPLEX, FL - Sending humans on a 'Journey to Mars' and developing strategies and hardware to accomplish the daunting task of getting 'Humans to Mars' is NASA's agency wide goal and the goal of many space enthusiasts - including Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin.