Ever watch the Moon cover up a star? There's a great chance to see just such an event this coming weekend, when the waxing gibbous Moon occults (passes in front of) the bright star Aldebaran for much of North America.

Tis a season of incredible wind driven activity on Mars like few before witnessed by our human emissaries ! Its summer on the Red Planet and the talented scientists directing NASA's Curiosity rover have targeted the robots cameras so proficiently that they have efficiently spotted a multitude of 'Dust Devils' racing across the dunes fields of Gale Crater.

At the recent Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop, Director Jim Green and a panel of scientists proposed deploying a magnetic shield to protect Mars.

A study by a team of scientists at the University of Sheffield suggests that stars being ripped apart due to galactic collisions might be 100 times more common than previously thought.

Mars' northern polar region is home to long lines of small pits, hinting at the presence of some dynamic process in the ice cap.

A new study by a team of astronomers from the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University indicates that habitable zones may be bigger than previously thought.

Once the E-ELT is completed in 2014, it will be the largest optical/infrared observatory in the world.

The TRAPPIST 7 have some explaining to do. Are they really Earth-like and potentially habitable?

As the closest (and most eccentric) planet to our Sun, Mercury's distance ranges from 46 million km (28.58 million mi) at perihelion to 57.9 million km (35.98 million mi) at aphelion.

Sam Monfort, a Doctoral Candidate at George Mason University, has created a series of visuals that illustrate the trends in UFO reporting.

A new study by an international team of scientists may be the "missing link" in our understanding of how planets form from debris disks.

The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope is an 'almost telescope' that never got built. But the design and thinking behind it have helped shaped the future.

Ready for the "Great American Eclipse?" We're now less than six months out from the long-anticipated total solar eclipse spanning the contiguous United States from coast-to-coast. And while folks are scrambling to make last minute plans to stand in the path of totality on Monday, August 21st 2017 a unique project seeks seeks to document the view across the entire path.

The Giant Magellan Telescope is being built in Chile by a consortium of nations. It should see first light in the early 2020s.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Breaking News - Elon Musk, billionaire founder and CEO of SpaceX, announced today (27 Feb) a daring plan to launch a commercial manned journey to beyond the Moon and back in 2018 flying aboard an advanced crewed Dragon spacecraft paid for by two private astronauts - at a media telecon.

A new study from the Tokyo Institute of Technology has shown how crystallization in the Earth's core may be what drives its magnetic field.