Less than 4 weeks after launching a Dragon cargo ship for NASA to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX is poised for their next nearly simultaneous Falcon 9 rocket launch and first stage landing attempt for what promises to be a spectacular skyshow shortly after midnight on Friday, May 6.

It is possible that we could someday transform Ceres, the largest object in the Asteroid Belt, to make it friendly for human habitation?

If you notice a rise in meteors before dawn now through the weekend, you're not imagining things. It's the annual peak of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, when pieces of Halley's Comet strike our atmosphere.

The unexplained results from two separate experiments at the Large Hadron Collider point to the possible discovery of a new type of particle.

In the coming years, NASA will be launching its Starshade, a large spacecraft that will block the bright light of distant stars to make spotting expolanets easier

Surface features on Mars may have been caused by boiling water.

Get set to observe binocular Comet C/2013 X1 PanSTARRS this summer, as it moves from the dawn to the dusk sky. Here's our handy guide, with key dates, predictions and more.

Messier 12, a globular cluster located some 15,700 light-years from Earth, is one of the brightest objects in the Ophiuchus constellation

The science team leading NASA's New Horizons mission that unveiled the true nature of Pluto's long hidden looks during the history making maiden close encounter last July, have published a fresh global map that offers the sharpest and most spectacular glimpse yet of the mysterious, icy world.

A critical fuel control valve has been faulted for the Atlas V launch anomaly that forced a premature shutdown of the rockets first stage engines during its most recent launch of a Cygnus cargo freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) last month - that nevertheless was successful in delivering the payload to its intended orbit.

The Fermi Space Telescope has found the source of 'Big Bird', one of the most energetic neutrinos ever detected.

On the ecliptic plane, bordered by constellations of Perseus, Pisces, and Taurus, is the ancient constellation known as Aries

Russia's new spaceport, the Vostochny Cosmodrome, will allow Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, to conduct the bulk of its launches on home soil.

Mercury is a hot and hostile planet, but it has many things going for it that make it an attractive option for colonizing and even partial terraforming

NASA's Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover successfully bored a brand new hole in Mars at a tantalizing sandstone outcrop in the 'Lubango' fracture zone this past weekend on Sol 1320, Apr. 23, and is now carefully analyzing the shaken and sieved drill tailings for clues to Mars watery past atop the Naukluft Plateau.

Among Sir Isaac Newton's many contributions to science was the discovery of gravity. one of the fundamental forces of the Universe