A recent study by a team of researchers from University College London has shown that there really is no such thing as "up", or any other preferred direction, in the Universe

A new study by a team of Russian researchers has shown that in the interiors of ice giants like Uranus and Neptune and moons like Europa, conditions could be just right to maintain "impossible" chemicals

The Curiosity rover may need to divert its course soon, as its current path could cause it to contaminate a small pocket of water on Mars' surface

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA's OSIRIS-REx hi tech robotic explorer blasted off this evening in spectacular fashion from the Florida Space Coast on a ground breaking 7 year sampling trek to Asteroid Bennu and back to gather grains of 4.5 billion year old alien sand that could potentially reveal significant answers to the origins of life on Earth.

Elon Musk blew our minds when he suggested that it's highly likely we're all living in a computer simulation. Seriously? Why would he think this, and how could we tell if it's true?

A new study of the Milky Way galaxy reveals the ages of different parts of the galaxy, and tells the story of the Milky Way's formation and evolution.

A team of astronomers have discovered a globular cluster that stands out as distinct from all others -- a fossil that takes us back to when our galaxy first formed.

In the aftermath of the explosion that took place on Sept 1st, SpaceX may be facing legal hurdles with the company that owned the satellite that was lost

In the latest new to emerge about the "impossible" EM Drive, it now appears that the technology has passed the critical milestone of peer review

Freddie Mercury, the iconic front man from the band Queen, is having an asteroid named after him to commemorate what would have been his 70th birthday.

Great ready for the final eclipse of 2016, with a penumbral lunar eclipse on September 16th visible from Europe to Australia.

Top NASA managers have formally approved the launch of the agency's InSight Lander to the Red Planet in the spring of 2018 following a postponement from this spring due to the discovery of a vacuum leak in a prime science instrument supplied by France.

Colonizing Venus presents many advantages and challenges, and could be done using cities that float on top of its dense atmosphere

Black holes absorb everything that falls into them, including photons of light and heat. So what does it mean to ask, what temperature are black holes?

The first images of Jupiter have arrived from the Juno spacecraft and they are a tantalizing taste of what's to come.

Fossils discovered in Greenland - which are 3.7 billion years old - are the oldest evidence of life on Earth to date, and could help in the search for ancient life on Earth