Port Canaveral is considering a hefty raise to the fees it charges SpaceX for handling recovered boosters.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — The pancaked leftovers of a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage from last week's successful commercial launch but hard landing at sea, pulled silently and without fanfare into its home port over the weekend - thereby ending a string of three straight spectacular and upright soft ocean landings over the past two months.

A transient third Van Allen belt was first observed in 2013, and new research explains how it was formed.

The planets of our Solar System vary considerably, with some being a fraction of Earth's diameter, and others many times its size

Located in the Pegasus constellation, some 33,600 light years from Earth, is the M15 Great Pegasus Cluster, one of the oldest objects in the night sky

Today marks the June solstice, as the Sun passes highest in the sky for observers across the northern hemisphere. Here's our post on 'all things solstice,' with facts, lore and more.

While NASA has had a long and storied history of building and testing experimental aircraft – called X-planes -- it has been almost a decade the space agency has developed any new aircraft. But an initiative announced earlier this year as part of the new budget has NASA back designing, building and flying a new series of X-planes, with the goal of creating more "green" aviation technologies that can then be utilized by the aeronautics industry.

The Saturn V rocket that was supposed to launch Apollo 19 to the Moon in 1973 has found a new home at the Infinity Science Center in Mississippi.

Earth has a new dance partner, a quasi-moon named 2016 H03.

As we've learned, black holes can evaporate over time thanks to the creation of virtual particles at the edge of the event horizon. Dr. Paul Matt Sutter returns to help us make sense of the science.

The Additive Manufacturing Facility, or 3D printer, on-board the ISS has made its first tool.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — Nearly perfect weather greeted the blastoff of a nearly identical pair of xenon propulsion commercial telecom satellites carried to orbit today, Wednesday, June 15, by an upgraded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Florida space coast.

With the announcement of the second detection of elusive gravitational waves, scientists hope this is just the beginning of a new era of understanding our Universe.

A fossilized meteorite from a quarry in Sweden is a new type of space rock that's different from other meteors.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — Less than three weeks after their last launch and landing attempt involving a Thai payload, SpaceX is set to continue the firms rapid fire pace of satellite deliveries to orbit with a new mission involving a stacked pair of all-electric propulsion commercial comsats that are due to liftoff tomorrow, Wednesday morning.

The coming month is a great time to cross Pluto off of your observing life list, with our complete guide to Pluto at opposition for 2016.