Why this weekend's Full Moon is considered 'blue'... but not in the usual sense.

An upgraded version of Orbital ATK's commercially developed Antares rocket has at last rolled out to its launch pad on the Virginia shore - thus paving the path for a high stakes first stage engine test looming "in the next few weeks," according to the aerospace firm.

Using the largest 3-D map of the Universe to date, an team of researchers has shown that Einstein's theory of general relativity holds up 100 years later

The Hubble Space Telescope takes a deep look into the Comet 252P/LINEAR and discovers a spinning jet. We look at the jet then learn how you can still track this comet with your own telescope.

As completion nears for the prototype of Boeing's first Starliner astronaut taxi, the firm announced a slip into 2018 for the blastoff date of the first crewed flight in order to deal with spacecraft mass, aerodynamic launch and flight software issues, a Boeing spokesperson told Universe Today.

After nearly a year in orbit, speculation still abounds as to the X-37B spacecraft's true purpose, and what its been doing up there all this time

Recent data from the ESO's trio of Swarm satellites point to a weakening of the Earth's magnetic field as well as variations in field strength across the planet in recent years.

The recovered SpaceX first stage booster that nailed a spectacular middle-of-the-night touchdown at sea last week sailed back to Port Canaveral, Florida, late Monday and was transferred by crane on Tuesday from the drone ship to land - as seen in an amazing time-lapse video and photos, shown above and below and obtained by Universe Today.

Elon Musk recently announced SpaceX's plans to send a spacecraft to the surface of Mars by 2018. It's never been easier to die on Mars.

If our Universe could be likened to a playground, our Sun would be one of the little kids playing in it. And the big kids, it turns out, are really big!

Astronomers using the Kepler spacecraft and data from the Herschel Space Observatory have given us a revealing glimpse of dwarf planet 2007 OR10.

At a facility the Nevada Desert, the startup company known as Hyperloop One recently conducted a successful test of the technology that could revolutionize transport

The Big Bear Solar Observatory Captures a high-res image of this week's transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun.

A SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft loaded with nearly two tons of critical NASA science and technology experiments and equipment returned to Earth this afternoon, Wednesday, May 11, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean - and bringing about a successful conclusion to its mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that also brought aloft a new room for the resident crew.

Thanks to new data from the New Horizons mission that shows how Pluto behaves as both a planet and a comet, it may be necessary to reclassify this world again!

A new image from Cassini shows Saturn's southern polar vortex in striking detail.

When you remove all the touch-ups and filters, the planets of the Solar System look slightly different than you might imagine, especially in terms of color