Yeah, we're still all waiting for that next great "Comet of the Century" to make its presence known. In the meantime, we've had a steady stream of good binocular comets over the past year both expected and new, including Comet C/2017 O1 ASASSN1 (name and link), 45/P Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková and Comet 41P Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák (links). Now, another newcomer Comet Heinze is set to bring 2017 in over the finish line.

According to a new study by an international team of scientists, the widespread use of LED lights could be bad for the environment.

Dr. Claudius Gros explains the purpose, intent, and technology behind Project Genesis, which seeks to seed "transiently habitable" exoplanets with life to jumpstart the evolutionary process.

A study team led from the University of Hawaii recently studied two inflated gas giants, and revealed a possible explanation as to why they are so "puffy".

A new study from a team of Japanese researchers has shown that matter-antimatter annihilations happen as a result of lightning strikes.

Located in the Virgo cluster, roughly 52.5 million light-years from Earth, is the intermediate spiral galaxy known as Messier 61

A new study by the IceCube collaboration has shown that Earth stops the occasional neutrino, thus confirming a prediction made by the Standard Model.

Scientists and engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Center have prepared a next-generation tire which will fare much better on Mars and other harsh environments.

Members of Project Lyra recently published a study advocating a mission to `Oumuamua, the first interstellar asteroid discovered to date.

A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey has revealed that recurring slope lineae on Mars could be the result of granular flows and not flowing water.

A new study by Arjun Berera, of the University of Edinburgh, has indicated that space dust may be a possible mechanism for panspermia

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – After postponing last week's liftoff of the covert 'Zuma' spy satellite due to last minute concerns about the reliability of the payload fairing encapsulating it while poised for liftoff at KSC pad 39, SpaceX is set to at last resume launches from their previously damaged and now repaired Cape Canaveral pad 40 with a cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station (ISS) on Dec 4.

A new study by Professor Claudius Gros - who proposed The Genesis Project - indicates how magnetic sails could be used to brake an interstellar mission.

A new study by a team of international researchers shows that the interstellar asteroid `Oumuamua is pretty odd in terms of its appearance