A supermassive black hole of 17 billion solar masses has been found in an isolated region of space. How did such a large object form in a relatively sparse area?

Venus and Earth share many characteristics, being terrestrial planets, but are also significantly different. Here's how and where they differ...

The Moon occults the bright star Aldebaran on the evening of April 10th for North America, and, for a lucky few a few days earlier, asteroid 4 Vesta as well.

Five time space shuttle astronaut and current NASA science chief John Grunsfeld - best known as the 'Hubble Hugger' for three critical and dramatic servicing and upgrade missions to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope - his decided to retire from the space agency he faithfully served since being selected as an astronaut in 1992.

New Horizons collected 3 years of data during it's mission to Pluto and beyond, and that data is telling us a lot about the solar wind.

Small perturbations in the orbit of the Cassini probe provide further evidence for the existence of Planet Nine.

We're focused on Mars and Pluto, but what about Jupiter? Doesn't the biggest planet in the Solar System deserve a little love? How long does it take spacecraft to reach Jupiter?

Using data provided by NASA's GRAIL mission, researchers from Purdue University have found more evidence of buried lava tubes on the Moon

It's time to whip out your 3-D glasses to enjoy and scrutinize the remarkable detail of spectacular terrain revealed in a new high resolution stereo image of Pluto - King of the Kuiper Belt! - taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

Researchers from York University explain how old data from the Huygen's probe has confirmed that methane fog exists on Titan's south pole

Located in the equatorial constellation Ophiuchus, M10 is one of the brighter globular clusters in the night sky, and the brightest in this constellation

Women are more susceptible to harmful changes in their microbiome during space travel. Understanding those changes will allow female astronauts to join their male counterparts on long duration space voyages.

Some of the more interesting characteristics of Jupiter are not generally known. Here are ten particularly interesting facts about this gas giant

A "beautiful dust devil" was just discovered today, April 1, on the Red Planet by NASA's long lived Opportunity rover as she is simultaneously exploring water altered rock outcrops at the steepest slopes ever targeted during her 13 year long expedition across the Martian surface. Opportunity is searching for minerals formed in ancient flows of water that will provide critical insight into establishing whether life ever existed on the fourth rock from the sun.

Two researchers believe that the hypothetical "Planet Nine" may be responsible for cyclic extinctions seen in the biological record.

In ancient times, astronomers and philosophers thought that the Earth was the center of the Universe. We know that's wrong, but is there anything special about where we live?