Looking for a good binocular comet? Well, if luck is on our side, we should be getting our first looks at periodic Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková as it tops +10th magnitude in dusk skies over the next few weeks.
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With the election over, there are concerns over at NASA at how a Trump presidency might affect their research and exploration efforts
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By now, you've heard the news. We'll spare you the "it's a bird, it's a plane..." routine to usher in the Supermoon 2016. This month's Full Moon is not only the closest for the year, but the nearest Full Moon for a 80 year plus span.
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The center of large galaxies are active places, where supermassive black holes pump out an incredible amount of light and radiation!
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Hoping to recover quickly after suffering a calamitous launch pad explosion of their Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral some two months ago, SpaceX is aiming to resume launches of the booster in mid-December, said company founder and CEO Elon Musk in a recent televised interview on Nov. 4.
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Space exploration oddball Mars One has announced a merger with a Swiss mobile payment company called InFin AG.
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Beyond the Milky Way Galaxy lies the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, two bundles of stars and dust that orbit our galaxy at a distance of 160,000 and 200,000 light years.
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In a complete change of plans from less than three weeks ago, NASA has asked Orbital ATK to switch rockets and launch the firms next Cygnus commercial cargo freighter to the space station on the tried and true Atlas V rather than their own Antares rocket - which just successfully delivered another Cygnus to the orbiting outpost with a hefty stash of science and supplies.
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Located in the direction of the Scutum Constellation, about 5,000 light years from Earth, is the open star cluster known as Messier 26
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The discovery of a millisecond pulsar orbiting a low-mass white dwarf star has astronomers puzzled, mainly because its orbit defies conventional models of stellar formation
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The Orbit of the Moon is strange, which gives rise to changes in its appearance. It is also slowly changing, moving farther away from Earth.
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When was the first time that the Universe cooled down enough that light could finally move around?
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Located in the Zodiac, the asterism known as Cancer is a medium-sized and relatively faint constellation, and one of 88 recognized by the IAU today.
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A NASA advisory group has expressed concerns over SpaceX's safety standards in the wake of the explosion that claimed one of the company's rockets
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Meet the largest single chondrite in Texas.
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Two galaxies collide, and one super-massive black hole is stripped almost naked of stars.
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A new study from a team of Japanese researchers shows that the rings of the gas giants might be the remains of dwarf planets, which they encountered billions of years ago
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Determining which ocean is the deepest is tricky, but on average, the Pacific Ocean is deeper than the rest, thanks to the extreme depth of the Mariana Trench
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NASA's Scout Program for the early detection of asteroids passed it's first test, giving us 5 days notice of 2016 UR36's close encounter with Earth.
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Water has been showing up in all sorts of unexpected places in our Solar System, such as the Moon, Mercury and Saturn's moon Ganymede. Add one more place to the list: Asteroid 16 Psyche. This metal-rich asteroid may have traces of water molecules on its surface that shouldn't be there, researchers say.
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Did you hear that the Universe has 10x the number of galaxies? How did astronomers discover this, and what does it mean for the number of stars?
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Rain is part of Earth's all-important hydrological cycle, where water evaporates from the Earth's surface, condenses, and falls from the sky.
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An small object noticed in some of the Curiosity rover's images has been identified as a small meteorite, likely composed of iron-nickel
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The Cassini probe has found more features on Titan that resemble Earth, steep river valleys that empty into its largest methane lake
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At dusk on November 2, skywatchers will see a beautiful crescent Moon pair up with the planets Venus and Saturn.
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SpaceX is making significant progress in replicating the failure in the helium pressurization system that led to the catastrophic launch pad explosion of the firms Falcon 9 rocket during a routine fueling test at their Florida Space Coast launch complex on September 1.
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A recent study by an international team of scientists looked at Project Starshot and assessed the likelihood of its success, based on several design features
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New photos from NASA's Mars orbiter reveal the Schiaparelli lander crash in finer detail.
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Recent images from the Cassini space probe show that Saturn's hexagonal polar storm is changing, which may be due to seasonal variation
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A new study from the University of Bern indicates that most planets that orbit red dwarf stars might be water worlds, which could have a serious effect on the hunt for extra-terrestrial life
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If you're going to send a spacecraft to Mars, you've got to know that place has an insatiable hunger for our plucky robot companions. Why is this place cursed?
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Between a New Moon and a Full Moon, the Moon goes through its "waxing" phases, where its surface increases in luminosity
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A new study produced by researchers at Caltech links the existence of Planet 9 to the axial tilt of our Sun, something that was previously unexplained
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