In a recent study, an international team of scientists present their concept for a lightsail and spacecraft that could make the journey to the nearest star in about 100 years.

The ESA's NELIOTA project is busy monitoring the dark side of the Moon for impact flashes, which could tell us more about the risk of asteroids hitting Earth.

The Voyager 2 recently crossed the outer boundary of the heliosphere, where it joins the Voyager 1 spacecraft in interstellar space

When it comes to meteor showers, the calendar year always seems to save the best for last. We're referring to the Geminid meteor shower, one of the sure fire bets for dependable meteor showers. In fact, in recent years, the Geminids have been upstaging that other yearly favorite: the August Geminids.

The InSight lander recently used two its instruments to record vibrations caused by Martian wind, effectively capturing what it sounds like on the surface of Mars.

Located in the northern hemisphere, between the two "dippers", is the Draco constellation - one of the 48 compiled by Ptolemy and one of the 88 recognized by the IAU.

Most of us think of distant sites such as Death Valley, the Kalahari Desert or the Canary Islands when it comes to dark skies. And while it's true that many observers are now traveling farther and farther away from home in search of truly dark skies, that trip need not be as far as you think. We had the opportunity to visit one such often overlooked dark sky gem: the state of Nebraska

SpaceX's sixteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-16) successfully launched a Dragon spacecraft to orbit, but the first stage didn't quite stick the landing.