The world's most powerful booster that will one day propel NASA astronauts on exciting missions of exploration to deep space destinations including the Moon and Mars was successfully ignited this morning, June 28, during an awesome ground test firing on a remote mountainside in Utah, that qualifies it for an inaugural blastoff in late 2018.

Asteroid Itokawa had a sometimes violent 4.5 billion year history, according to samples returned by Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa.

Now just 7 days out from a critical orbital insertion burn, NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno orbiter is closing in fast on the massive gas giant. And as its coming into focus the spacecraft has begun snapping a series of beautiful images of the biggest planet and its biggest moons.

Based on recent experiments led by a Dutch research team and MarsOne, we now know which crops can be grown on the Red Planet

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), researchers are about to observe the stars orbiting Sagittarius A*, which will test Einstein's theory of General Relativity like never before

Today's (June 24) spectacular launch of the most powerful version of the venerable Atlas V rocket from the sunshine state completes the orbital deployment of a constellation of advanced tactical communications satellites for the U.S. Navy.

Orbital images of Mars can provide useful information on the changing nature of the Martian surface. And eye candy too!

Minor planets like Chariklo are good at keeping their ring systems away from larger planets, and we are beginning to understand why

The long awaited maiden launch of Orbital ATK's revamped Antares commercial rocket utilizing new first stage engines, from its Virginia launch base, will likely slip from July to August, a company spokesperson confirmed to Universe Today.

According to Boeing, the first test launch of its Starliner crew capsule will take place in February 2018, a four month delay from its original date of October 2017.

With the 2030s approaching, and an impending election, NASA needs to redouble its efforts to make a crewed mission to Mars happen

Port Canaveral is considering a hefty raise to the fees it charges SpaceX for handling recovered boosters.

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — The pancaked leftovers of a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage from last week's successful commercial launch but hard landing at sea, pulled silently and without fanfare into its home port over the weekend - thereby ending a string of three straight spectacular and upright soft ocean landings over the past two months.

A transient third Van Allen belt was first observed in 2013, and new research explains how it was formed.

The planets of our Solar System vary considerably, with some being a fraction of Earth's diameter, and others many times its size

Located in the Pegasus constellation, some 33,600 light years from Earth, is the M15 Great Pegasus Cluster, one of the oldest objects in the night sky