Before it makes its final plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, the Cassini spacecraft made one last flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon

The largest solar flare in twelve years was recently witnessed by a team of UK scientists, and could teach us a great deal about predicting space weather

A new study by an international team of astrophysicists has demonstrated that gravitational waves could be detected coming from exploding stars

Located in the northern constellation of Lyra, roughly 32,900 light years from Earth, is the globular star cluster known as Messier 56

A new study by scientists from the John Hopkins Univeristy Applied Physics Lab (JHUAPL) indicates that Jupiter's auroras may be more mysterious than we thought

TITUSVILLE/CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA and Air Force officials have ordered the closure of the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as deadly Cat 4 Hurricane Irma relentlessly targets a direct hit on Florida and forces millions of residents and tourists to evacuate catastrophic consequences coming tonight, Saturday, Sept. 9 and throughout the weekend.

A new study by a team of European astrophysicists has turned exoplanet-hunting on its head by asking "could aliens detect Earth?"

A new study by an international team of researchers indicates that older Sun-like stars emit less harmful X-rays, a finding which has implications for exoplanet habitability

A new study led by researchers from the Carnegie Institute of Science indicates that TRAPPIST-1 could also be orbited by gas giants

The discovery of boron on Mars, a key ingredient in the emergence of organic molecules, has bolstered the case for Martian life having once existed

A team of Chinese astronomers has just discovered two new hypervelocity stars, a rare type of star that is still a mystery to astronomers

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Amidst the frenzy of 'Sunshine State' preparations for Cat 5 monster Hurricane Irma and quite dismal weather favorability odds, the skies surrounding the Florida Space Coast suddenly parted just in the nick of time enabling the Air Force's secret military X-37B spaceplane to blast off this morning (Sept. 7) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 as the booster nailed another thrilling ground landing back at the Cape.

Thanks to a team of researchers from the Netherlands, who used the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), the second fastest-spinning pulsar has been discovered

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Although its far from sunny in the so called 'Sunshine State' the secret X-37B military mini-shuttle is set for a SpaceX blastoff and booster landing combo Thursday, Sept. 7 - even as the looming threat from Cat 5 Hurricane Irma forced Florida's Governor to declare a statewide 'State of Emergency.'

According to a new study by a Russian scientist, the Sun's own motion around the Solar System's center of mass could disrupt our ability to detect Earth 2.0

It's a mystery that's puzzled astronomers for years. Which came first, supermassive black holes or the galaxies that surround them?

Based on data provided by the Gaia mission, a new study has indicated when close encounters will take place between our Sun and other stars in the future.