Women are more susceptible to harmful changes in their microbiome during space travel. Understanding those changes will allow female astronauts to join their male counterparts on long duration space voyages.

Some of the more interesting characteristics of Jupiter are not generally known. Here are ten particularly interesting facts about this gas giant

A "beautiful dust devil" was just discovered today, April 1, on the Red Planet by NASA's long lived Opportunity rover as she is simultaneously exploring water altered rock outcrops at the steepest slopes ever targeted during her 13 year long expedition across the Martian surface. Opportunity is searching for minerals formed in ancient flows of water that will provide critical insight into establishing whether life ever existed on the fourth rock from the sun.

Two researchers believe that the hypothetical "Planet Nine" may be responsible for cyclic extinctions seen in the biological record.

In ancient times, astronomers and philosophers thought that the Earth was the center of the Universe. We know that's wrong, but is there anything special about where we live?

Powerful arrays of lasers could hide our presence from the prying eyes of aliens.

Astronomers combing through data from the ESA's XMM Newton telescope have found the Andromeda Galaxy's first spinning neutron star.

ALMA, a network of radio telescopes, creates the most detailed images ever of a solar system forming around a nearby star.

An unmanned Russian space freighter hauling fresh fruit and over three tons of food, water, supplies and science experiments blasted off today, Thursday, March 31, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, commencing a two-day orbital trek to the six person crew living aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Given its proximity to Earth and our history of exploring it, colonizing and terraforming the Moon could be much easier than other Solar bodies

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Modernization of NASA's launch infrastructure facilities at the Kennedy Space Center supporting the new SLS/Orion architecture required to send astronauts on a Journey to Mars in the 2030s, has passed a comprehensive series of key hardware reviews, NASA announced, paving the path towards full scale development and the inaugural liftoff by late 2018.

Despite NASA's proposed mission to Mars in the 2030s, two NASA scientists recently indicated that a permanent colony is still a long ways away

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, an inflatable space habitat, will be launched onboard a SpaceX Falcon then attached to the ISS for a 2-year study.

Up for a challenge? The Moon occults Venus for Europe, the UK and northern Asia on April 6th, though it'll be a tough daytime catch. Get ready to stretch those visual skills to the limit, with our complete guide to this event.

Video from Austrian and Irish amateur astronomers points to a new impact on Jupiter by either a comet or asteroid.