Thanks to a new study by an international team of astronomers, we now have the tools we need to map the far side of our galaxy.

In a recent test at NASA's Glenn Research Center, the X3 Hall-effect ion engine broke the previous thrust and power records established by a Hall-effect thruster.

PLAYALINDA BEACH/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The path to an October launch trifecta from Florida's Spaceport was cleared following SpaceX's successful static fire test of the Falcon 9 boosters first stage engines this afternoon, Oct. 26, and thereby targeting Monday, Oct. 30 for blastoff of the KoreaSat-5A commercial telecomsat.

A team of European astronomers recently conducted the first use of AI to identify 56 new gravitational lenses from a mountain of survey data.

The Juno probe has peered deeper into Jupiter's atmosphere than ever before, which has indicated that its magnetic field is askew.

An international consortium of scientists known as Project Blue hopes to crowdfund the creation of a space telescope that will allow us to directly image planets in the neighboring Alpha Centauri system.

Astronomers have found a comet with a possible interstellar trajectory. Comet C/2017 U1 PANSTARRS seems to have come from outside the Solar System.

A new study by an astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research shows that the first exomoon ever discovered could actually be a gas giant moon!

A new study led by Princeton University shows that water worlds are likely to be stripped of their atmospheres (and most of their water) before too long

Space scientists are considering how they can catch the charged particles streaming from the Sun with electric sails as a way to propel spacecraft through the Solar System.

Thanks to the over 500,000 pictures taken by the Cassini mission, Google Maps has created a mapping tool that allows users to virtually explore the Solar System.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — As one Atlas rocket carrying a covert spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to monitor Earth for national security purposes faded into cloudy nighttime skies over the Cape in the dead of night shrouded in liftoff secrecy, rocket builder United Launch Alliance (ULA) won another significant Atlas launch contract for NASA's Landsat 9 satellite to monitor the health of Earth's environment.

According to a new analysis, the number of undiscovered and potentially-hazardous asteroids could be lower than previously thought.

A recent study from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has produced a new 3-D model for determining exoplanet habitability.

5 years after a heart throbbing Martian touchdown, Curiosity is climbing Vera Rubin Ridge in search of "aqueous minerals" and "clays" for clues to possible past life while capturing "truly breathtaking" vistas of humongous Mount Sharp - her primary destination – and the stark eroded rim of the Gale Crater landing zone from ever higher elevations, NASA scientists tell Universe Today in a new mission update.

A team of astronomers from the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has confirmed that Earth's "temporary Moon" is an asteroid, and not space junk.