An international team of scientists recently released a study that shows which of the Kepler exoplanets candidates are most like Earth

Though it is not considered as such, Mercury is actually a viable candidate for colonization - if you can get around the extreme conditions!

By examining faint radio emissions from a local supernova remnant, astronomers are learning more about how stars behave before they explode

According to a new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, life as we know it could have emerged prematurely in the Universe

In the Sagittarius Constellation, near the ecliptic of the Milky Way Galaxy, lies the faint and compact open star cluster known as Messier 21

A guide to identifying strange lights in the sky.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk's daring dream of rocket recycling and reusability is getting closer and closer to reality with each passing day. After a breathtaking series of experimental flight tests aimed at safely landing the firms spent Falcon 9 first stages on land and at sea over the past half year the bold effort achieved another major milestone by just completing the first full duration test firing of one of those landed boosters.

The SpaceX mission to Mars in 2018 will cost the company a cool $300 million, according to estimates presented at a recent NASA Advisory Council meeting

Located in the southern skies, far from the plain of the Milky Way, is the faint Caelum constellation, which represents the "chisel" that etches the heavens!

The fireball that appeared above Las Vegas earlier this week was apparently the result of a spent Chinese rocket falling back to Earth

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — Riding atop the crackling roar of an Atlas V rocket, a clandestine surveillance satellite for our nation's spy masters was carried aloft by a powerful booster from the Florida space coast to an undisclosed orbit at breakfast time today, Thursday, July 28.

The Bohr atomic model (sometimes known as the Rutherford-Bohr atomic model) was a major milestone in the development of modern atomic theory

Set your alarm for Friday morning at dawn when the crescent Moon will either cover up, barely miss or pass in splendid conjunction with Aldebaran, the brightest star in Taurus.

Scientists at NASA"s Goddard Space Flight Center are developing the photon sieve, a small, inexpensive device designed to study the Sun's corona

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — The nation's newest surveillance satellite is all set for a brilliant breakfast blastoff on Thursday July 28 atop a powerful Atlas V rocket from the Florida Space Coast - and both the booster and weather are in excellent shape at this time!

In both the course of a year, and over the course of millennia, Earth experiences variations due to the fact that its axis is tilted

Scientists have found a bit of a mystery at the dwarf planet Ceres. In the rough and tumble environment of the asteroid belt, ancient Ceres was certainly pummeled by numerous large asteroids during its 4.5 billion-year lifetime. But yet, there are just a few large craters on found there.

Mars is not only further from the Sun than Earth, but has an eccentric orbit that leads to a great deal of variation in its seasons and surface temperature