Reports coming in now from the Perseid meteor shower show a big spike in activity over Europe last night as impressive -- briefly -- as the 2002 Leonids. Expect the shower to continue tonight.

Contrary to what was once believed, the Solar System is home to hundreds of moons. Beyond Earth, there are many natural satellites orbiting the gas giants, dwarf planets, and even some asteroids!

The 'Return to Flight' launch of Orbital ATK's re-engined Antares rocket on a cargo resupply launch for NASA bound for the space station has been postponed for at least another month into September due to the need for further analysis of the revamped booster and other factors.

Just how long would it take to get to the Asteroid Belt, in the event that we want to start sending spacecraft there on a regular basis?

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, at a distance of between 1.2 and 2.2 AUs from Earth, lies the Solar System's Main Asteroid Belt

A growing list of scientists believe life on Earth only came about because of a lucky series of evolutionary accidents, a long list of improbable events that just happened to come together at the right time and will never be repeated. Is it possible they are right and we are all there is? Highly unlikely.

Magnetars are neutron stars with massively boosted magnetic fields. How do this stellar remnants form, and what would happen if you got too close to one?

Almost a year later after it was first noticed, the mystery of Tabby's Star and its unusual dimming continues to confound and bewilder astronomers

Out camping under the August sky? The coming week gives us a good reason to stay up late, as the Perseid meteor shower graces the summer sky. An 'old faithful' of annual meteor showers, the Perseids are always sure to produce. Here's our complete guide to the 2016 Perseids.

A sample return bag from the Apollo 11 mission is at the heart of a messy legal dispute.

In the direction Sagittarius constellation, some 14,000 light years from Earth, lies the bright Sagittarius globular star cluster (aka. Messier Object 22)

At ICEP 2016, researchers from CERN presented the latest results from the LHC, which showed that there is no evidence of a new particle just yet!

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The next generation of America's human spaceships is rapidly taking shape and "making fantastic progress" at the Kennedy Space Center as Boeing and NASA showcased the start of assembly of the first flight worthy version of the aerospace giants Starliner crew taxi vehicle to the media last week. Starliner will ferry NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) by early 2018.

When you think of a spaceport, what do you imagine?

The Earth's tilt is nothing compared to Uranus, which has been flipped right over on its side. What could have caused such a devastating impact to the planet to make it this way?

In a recent announcement, North Korea announced that it plans to launch more satellites in the coming years, and even mount a mission to the Moon!

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - A major overhaul of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) readying it for launches of NASA's SLS Mars rocket by 2018 has reached the halfway point with installation of massive new access platforms required to enable assembly of the mammoth booster at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) - as seen firsthand during an exclusive up close facility tour by Universe Today.

A new poll has shown that opposition to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope - which was originally scheduled to be built on Mauna Kea, Hawaii - has dimished

We frequently call the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter "our favorite camera" and for good reason. HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, is the largest and most powerful camera ever flown on a planetary mission, sending back incredible beautiful, high-resolution images of Mars.