CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - The highest-capacity US Air Force communications system thundered to orbit during a fabulous nighttime blastoff from the Florida Space Coast, Wednesday evening offering a picture perfect spectacle in addition to a significant boost to military point to point communications.

Trump's recent meeting with Al Gore in New York has fueled speculation about the future of NASAs Earth science missions, which are demonstrably vital to the nation

Earth's familiar gravity - which is 9.8 m/s², or 1 g - is both essential to life as we it, and an impediment to us becoming a true space-faring species!

The Cassini mission has begun its final phase and has completed its first ring-grazing orbit around Saturn.

Buzz Aldrin - the second man to walk on the Moon - is recovering nicely today in a New Zealand hospital after an emergency medical evacuation cut short his record setting Antarctic expedition as the oldest man to reach the South Pole - which Team Buzz lightheartly noted would make him "insufferable" !

The ESO has released spectral data obtained by the Very Large Telescope, which studied a distant qausar to determine how electromagnetism works.

Only three months after the catastrophic launch pad explosion of their commercial Falcon 9 rocket in Florida, SpaceX has set Dec. 16 as the date for the boosters 'Return to Flight' launch from California with the first batch of Iridium's next-generation communications satellites.

The weather on Venus is incredibly hostile, characterized by extreme temperatures, acid rain, lightning storms and powerful winds.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - An unmanned Russian Progress resupply ship bound for the International Space Station (ISS) was lost shortly after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday when its Soyuz booster suffered a catastrophic anomaly in the third stage, and the craft and its contents were totally destroyed.

The Asteroid Belt, which rests between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, orbits our Sun at a distance of 3.2 to 4.2 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun

In the northern sky, bordered by Ursa Major and Boötes, lies the small constellation of Canes Venatici, one of the 88 constellations recognized by the IAU.

According to the Standard Model of Particle Physics, all matter is composed is hadrons (which are made up of elementary particles) and leptons, which are elementary particles themselves.

Sky Canvas plans to launch a colorful artificial meteor shower barrage via micro-satellite.

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go into space, blazing a trail for all the female astronauts and cosmonauts who have since followed.

Not all stars are alone. Some come in pairs and more. And when there are multiple stars in a system, watch the cosmic sparks fly.