The team in charge of NASA's Dawn mission have asked to extend the spacecraft's journey to a third destination.
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Now in orbit for just over a year at dwarf planet Ceres, NASA's Dawn spacecraft continues to astound us with new discoveries gleaned from spectral and imagery data captured at ever decreasing orbits as well as since the probe arrived last December at the lowest altitude it will ever reach during the mission.
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The recovered SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster that successfully carried out history's first upright touchdown from a just flown rocket onto a droneship at sea, has just been moved back to the firms processing hanger at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for testing and eventual reflight.
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A new paper concludes that a super-Earth size planet may reside in the habitable zone of a star only 16 light years away.
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Recent findings from a team of researchers in South Africa have shown that supermassive black holes in distance are all spinning in the same direction
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A Super-Earth may have formed in our Solar System's earlier days, and then been destroyed by the Sun.
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As a gas giant, Neptune has no surface, in the traditional sense. But atop its cloud layers, some pretty amazing things are happening
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I've said in the past that the Universe isn't expanding into anything. But what if we're living in a vast multiverse, and our Universe is bumping up against other universes?
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One weld at a time, the flight hardware for NASA's mammoth new Space Launch System (SLS) booster has at last started taking shape, promising to turn years of planning and engineering discussions into reality and a rocket that will one day propel our astronauts on a 'Journey to Mars.'
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The changing brightness of the haze layers in Pluto's nitrogen atmosphere are caused by atmospheric gravity waves, according to data from New Horizons.
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Why this week's Full Moon is the smallest of 2016. It's Mini-Moon season!
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Antarctica is a rich source of Martian meteorites, which are studied for clues to the formation and evolution of the Solar System.
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The discovery of a Dwarf Dark Galaxy addresses the Missing Satellite Problem, and tells us we're on the right track in our understanding of the Universe, and Dark Matter's role in it.
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Nearly 40 years after it was first detected, a Florida astronomer proposes that comets may be to blame for the famed extraterrestrial "Wow! signal".
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The International Space Station (ISS) grew in size today, April 16, following the successful installation of an experimental new room - the BEAM expandable habitat module.
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With all the attention Breakthrough Starshot has been getting some are wondering if Alpha Cantauri is the best place to mount an interstellar mission
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SpaceX has released a slew of up close photos showing the sensational "super smooth" touchdown last week of a Falcon 9 booster on a tiny droneship at sea located several hundred miles (km) off the East coast of Florida. "This time it really went super smooth," Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX VP of Flight Reliability, told Universe Today
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ExoMars returns its first image, proof that the camera system is functioning as intended.
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Researchers have discovered the first Hyper-Velocity binary star, and its location, and possible relationship with Dark Matter, is a puzzle.
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On Monday, May 9 Mercury will make one of its relatively rare transits of the Sun. Get ready for the event by making sure you have access to a telescope and solar filter.
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We're always concerned about the weather here on Earth, but what about the Moon? Is there any weather up there that astronauts will have to worry about?
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Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced they are joining forces to develop and launch the world's first commercial space habitat to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) by 2020 - potentially as a huge and revolutionary new addition to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Since 2013, the NEOWISE mission has surveyed more than 19,000 asteroids and comets and discovered 72 new Near Earth Objects (NEOs)
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Stephen Hawking supports a plan to send tiny nano-spacecraft to the Centauri system within a generation.
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Air pollution is a major issue facing us Earthlings, and knowing its causes (both natural and man-made) is a key part in addressing it
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On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space.
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A more accurate measurement of standard candles has thrown a wrench into our standard model of cosmology.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 that triumphantly accomplished history's first upright landing of the spent first stage of a rocket on a barge at sea - after launching a critical cargo payload to orbit for NASA - sailed back into port at Cape Canaveral overnight in the wee hours of this morning, April 12, standing tall.
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One of the best dusk apparitions of the planet Mercury occurs this weekend... this event also sets us up for a very special event next month: a transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun.
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The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth so it always shows us the same face. But the Earth is slowing down so that it'll eventually lock to the Moon as well. What are the forces involved and when will this happen?
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A SpaceX commercial cargo freighter jam packed with more than three and a half tons of research experiments, essential crew supplies and a new experimental inflatable habitat reached the International Space Station (ISS) and the gleeful multinational crew of six astronauts and cosmonauts on Sunday, April 10.
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A massive sunspot emerged this past weekend, reversing the downward trend for solar cycle #24... for now.
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New research has shed light on what the maximum amount of mass a neutron star can achieve before it collapses into a black hole
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All around, today, April 8, was a great day for the future of space exploration. SpaceX successfully restarted their critical cargo flights for NASA to stock the International Space Station (ISS) with essential supplies and groundbreaking science experiments, while the innovative firm also successfully landed the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket on a barge at sea.
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Earlier today, private aerospace company SpaceX achieved a major milestone by successfully landing a Falcon 9 rocket at sea
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Water ice in a disk surrounding a star might seem out of place, but the ice might be essential to the formation of gaseous planets.
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The Electron Cloud Model was of the greatest contributions of the 20th century, leading to a revolution in physics and quantum theory
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The SpaceX Dragon is set for its 'Return to Flight' mission on Friday, April 8, packed with nearly 7000 pounds (3100 kg) of critical cargo and research experiments bound for the six-man crew working aboard the International Space Station.
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A supermassive black hole of 17 billion solar masses has been found in an isolated region of space. How did such a large object form in a relatively sparse area?
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Venus and Earth share many characteristics, being terrestrial planets, but are also significantly different. Here's how and where they differ...
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The Moon occults the bright star Aldebaran on the evening of April 10th for North America, and, for a lucky few a few days earlier, asteroid 4 Vesta as well.
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Five time space shuttle astronaut and current NASA science chief John Grunsfeld - best known as the 'Hubble Hugger' for three critical and dramatic servicing and upgrade missions to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope - his decided to retire from the space agency he faithfully served since being selected as an astronaut in 1992.
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