The latest numbers released by the ESA's Space Debris Office indicate that the cloud of orbital debris is getting worse.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - SpaceX's tenth contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station came to a safe conclusion with a splashdown of the Dragon spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean Sunday and successfully returned a treasure trove of more than two tons of precious science experiments and research samples from the space station.

Uranus was named in honor of the father of Cronos in Greek mythology, befitting its place in the Solar System beyond Saturn and Jupiter.

Miss out on comet 45P Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková? Is Comet 2P Encke too low in the dawn sky for your current latitude? (links) Well the Universe is providing us northerners with another shot at a fine binocular comet, as 41P Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák glides through Ursa Major this week.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - On the 70th anniversary year commemorating the United States Air Force, a ULA Delta IV rocket put on a daunting display of nighttime rocket fire power shortly after sunset Saturday, March 19 - powering a high speed military communications satellite to orbit that will significantly enhance the targeting firepower of forces in the field; and was funded in collaboration with America's strategic allies.

The Hubble has looked inside the Orion Nebula to witness a family of stars breaking up.

If a new definition of planet is adopted by the International Astronomical Union, our Solar System could be home to more than 110 planets.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - As sunset dawns on the venerable Delta rocket program, the sole Delta slated to launch from the Cape this year is set to dazzle at sunset tonight, Saturday, March 18.

Join Fraser Cain at Forbidden Brewing to talk about the TRAPPIST 1 system.

NASA's ground breaking twins study is in the all-important integration phase.

The Cassini probe recently snapped its last up-close imagines of Saturn's moon Mimas, which were used to create some impressive mosaic pictures of its pockmarked surface.

The private aerospace company Zero2Infinity reached a milestone this month with the successful test of their Bloostar launch system.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Under stellar moonlit Florida skies, a private SpaceX Falcon 9 took flight overnight and flawlessly delivered the commercial EchoStar 23 television satellite to geosynchronous orbit after high winds delayed the rockets roar to orbit by two days from Tuesday. Breaking News: Check back for updates

The Russian federal space agency (Roscosmos) has announced that it is seeking new recruits to become the next-generation of cosmonauts.

In addition to be the second closet planet to our Sun, Venus also has the most circular orbit - varying between 0.718 to 0728 AUs from the Sun.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - High winds halted SpaceX's early morning attempt to launch a legless Falcon 9 rocket and the EchoStar XXIII commercial communications satellite soon after midnight Tuesday, Mar. 14, from the Florida Space Coast amidst on and off rain showers and heavy cloud cover crisscrossing central Florida all afternoon Monday, Mar. 13 and into the overnight hours.

NASA recently announced the release of raw, uncalibrated data of the TRAPPIST-1 star system, which was collected by the Kepler K2 mission,