US astronomers announced last month they may have found a ninth planet beyond Neptune, but conceded they had no idea where on an estimated 10,000-20,000-year orbit it might be.

Now that Advanced LIGO has made the first direct detection of gravitational waves, what does the future of gravitational wave astronomy hold in store?

Pluto has been explored, and now the USPS has released new stamps to celebrate this accomplishment. And that's not all, more planets, the Moon and Star Trek?

There's always time for a practical joke, even for the astronauts aboard the ISS.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - Final preparations are underway for SpaceX's first launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral during 2016 with the commercial SES-9 television and communications satellite on Wednesday evening Feb. 24, following a smooth static fire engine test on Monday. Update: Technical issue postponed launch to Feb 25 at 6:46 pm.

Where, why, and how should we terraform? What are the challenges, and is such a thing even possible with the technology we have?

Wondering if the science in that sci-fi movie you just saw is real? Get a hold of the book "Hollyweird Science - From Quantum Quirks to the Multiverse" by Kevin Grazier and Stephen Cass. With it, you can sift through a lot of "tropes and conceits" and glean some wonderful insights of both modern science and modern cinema.

NASA has made public a recording of strange "music" that astronauts reported hearing in 1969 while on the far side of the Moon, out of radio contact with the Earth.

Opposition season 2016 for Jupiter kicks off with a great series of double shadow transits of the Galilean Moons.

A new system holds the promise of interstellar travel, asteroid deflection, and even interstellar communication.

Earth's lone mission to the Red Planet this year has now been assembled into launch configuration and all preparations are currently on target to support blastoff from Baikonur at the opening of the launch window on March 14, 2016.

A team of University of Manchester researchers proposes an intriguing answer to the puzzle of why we've found precious few iron meteorites among the thousands of meteorites recovered from the ice sheets of Antarctica.

A commercial Cygnus cargo freighter departed the International Space Station (ISS) this morning (Feb. 19) after successfully resuming America's train of resupply runs absolutely essential to the continued productive functioning of the orbiting science outpost.

Astronomers use the Hubble Space Telescope to pin down the rotation rate of an exoplanet 170 light years from Earth where it rains rock dust and iron droplets.

The Sun causes the destruction of asteroids at a much greater distance than previously thought.

The Antlia constellation. located in the southern hemisphere, is one of the more recently discovered members of the