The Leonid meteors are expected to peak on the night of Thursday, November 17th into the morning of Friday, November 18th.

First proposed in the early 20th century, and a staple of science fiction for over a century, the concept of the "death ray" is fast becoming a reality!

Space Habitat designs are enormous, high-tech structures. Carl Sagan had a different idea: comets as space habitats.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER VISITOR COMPLEX, FL - America's pioneering astronauts who braved the perils of the unknown and put their lives on the line at the dawn of the space age atop mighty rockets that propelled our hopes and dreams into the new frontier of outer space and culminated with NASA's Apollo lunar landings, are being honored with the eye popping new 'Heroes and Legends' attraction at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (KSCVC) in Florida.

Researchers at the Super-Kamiokande Observatory hope to be able to learn more about the elusive neutrino particle, thanks to a new computer system that can monitor detections in real-time.

A new instrument that took five years to build allows astronomers to capture and analyze the light reflecting off distant exoplanets.

The controversial EM Drive has received a potential shot in the arm, thanks to a "leaked" report which claims it works in a vacuum.

An international team of researchers have found another planet orbiting a red dwarf; in this case, a small super-Earth less than 33 light years away.

Looking for a good binocular comet? Well, if luck is on our side, we should be getting our first looks at periodic Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková as it tops +10th magnitude in dusk skies over the next few weeks.

With the election over, there are concerns over at NASA at how a Trump presidency might affect their research and exploration efforts

By now, you've heard the news. We'll spare you the "it's a bird, it's a plane..." routine to usher in the Supermoon 2016. This month's Full Moon is not only the closest for the year, but the nearest Full Moon for a 80 year plus span.

The center of large galaxies are active places, where supermassive black holes pump out an incredible amount of light and radiation!

Hoping to recover quickly after suffering a calamitous launch pad explosion of their Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral some two months ago, SpaceX is aiming to resume launches of the booster in mid-December, said company founder and CEO Elon Musk in a recent televised interview on Nov. 4.

Space exploration oddball Mars One has announced a merger with a Swiss mobile payment company called InFin AG.

Beyond the Milky Way Galaxy lies the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, two bundles of stars and dust that orbit our galaxy at a distance of 160,000 and 200,000 light years.