NASA's newly arrived Jovian orbiter Juno has transmitted its first imagery since reaching orbit last week on July 4 after swooping over Jupiter's cloud tops and powering back up its package of state-of-the-art science instruments for unprecedented research into determining the origin of our solar systems biggest planet.

Galileo's telescope, an instrument he made himself and used to revolutionize astronomy, still manages to inspire us today

The EPIC camera on-board NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has captured images of the Moon passing in front of the Earth as the Earth rotates behind it.

The Milky Way Galaxy is a very, very big place. And figuring out where Earth resides inside of it has been no simple task

The SABRE (Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) being developed for the European Space Agency could be ready for test firing in four years.

Thanks to the ESA's Cluster mission, scientists now know that part of the plasma found in our magnetosphere is coming from us!

Stars can spin faster or slower than the Sun. What's the fastest that's ever been discovered, and what's the fastest speed you can have before they tear themselves apart?

A dwarf planet has been discovered beyond Neptune. It's about 700 km in size, and its orbit takes it 120 times further from the Sun than the Earth is.

In the far-flung system of CVSO 30, two planetary candidates have been found with very different orbits - presenting new opportunities for exoplanet study

A flawless shakedown mission from Russia's newly modified Soyuz capsule successfully delivered a new multinational crew to the Space Station early Saturday, July 9 after a two day orbital chase.

What if the Earth just stopped dead in its tracks while orbiting the Sun? It would plummet straight down of course, but how long would it take to actually crash into the Sun?

Astronomers discover the first exoplanet orbiting within a triple star system and manage to obtain a direct image of the new world.

Construction has just finished on the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-aperture telescope

As part of Juno's mission to Jupiter, Lego has fashioned three figurines (representing Jupiter, Juno and Galileo) to accompany the probe on its mission

Astronomers have now determined a nearby brown dwarf has some exciting characteristics: its atmosphere is full of clouds of water vapor. This is the first time water clouds have been detected outside of our Solar System.

An international trio of astronauts and cosmonauts representing the United States, Russia and Japan blasted off in the early morning Kazakh hours today, July 7, for a new mission of science and discovery on the International Space Station (ISS).

According to a recent study from Cornell University, the prebiotic conditions for life might exist on Titan, despite it being cold and having no water