Despite what you might think, the largest desert in the world is actually in Antarctica. In addition to being the coldest place on the planet, is also the driest

Now more than a year after its historic flyby of Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft continues to speed through the Kuiper Belt. The spacecraft recently spotted another KBO, one of Pluto's pals, Quaoar.

Since the late 17th century, scientists have been attempting to measure the speed of light, with increasingly accurate results

NASA's new GLOBE Observer app allows users to observe the sky in their location and share the data with NASA.

Four years after a nail biting touchdown on the Red Planet, NASA's SUV-sized Curiosity rover is at last nearing the long strived for "Murray Buttes" formation on the lower reaches of Mount Sharp.

A new study offers a possible explanation for the strange surface features on Mars' moon of Phobos, which could help us to better understand the Red Planet too

After reviewing data from the Sentinel-1A satellites on-board cameras, the ESA has determined that it suffered a collision with a tiny object in orbit

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL — The telecommunications giant SES is boldly going where no company has gone before by making history in inking a deal today, Aug. 30, to fly the expensive SES-10 commercial satellite on the first ever launch of a 'Flight-Proven' SpaceX booster - that's been used and recovered.

Astrophysicists looking for the Milky Way's missing matter have found that our black hole was very active only 6 million years ago.

Relying on Hubble data, a new study has suggested that (contrary to hot and cold models) dark matter may actually be "warm" in nature

In Africa this week? The final solar eclipse of 2016 graces the continent this week. This eclipse is annular only, as the Moon fails to fully cover the disk of the Sun.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - OSIRIS-Rex, the first American sponsored probe aimed at retrieving "pristine materials" from the surface of an asteroid and returning them to Earth has been fully assembled at its Florida launch base and is ready to blastoff ten days from today on Sep. 8. It's a groundbreaking mission that could inform us about astrobiology and the 'Origin of Life.'

Outside of the ESO, there are others who have been hunting for exoplanets around Proxima Centauri - including Dr. Kipping of the Cool Worlds lab

We're not saying its aliens, but this could be the most enticing signal from space since the famous "Wow! Signal" in 1977.