NASA's Dawn spacecraft has unveiled a new patch of intriguing bright features in the most recent series of striking close-up images taken just after the probe reached the lowest altitude it will ever reach during the mission.

Electromagnets, which rely on electrical current to generate magnetic fields, are used to powering everything from medical equipment to consumer electronics.

SpaceX is on course to move ahead with an ambitious spaceflight agenda, trying a 2nd rocket recovery landing of their Falcon 9 booster in barely 4 weeks time and upcoming this Sunday, Jan. 17, says Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of SpaceX.

Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina puts on its final act this week through late January, as it crosses through northern hemisphere skies. Here's how to find it, what to expect, and some great images from Universe Today readers. The time to catch this bright binocular comet is this week!

The geocentric model of the universe, in which the Sun, planets and stars revolved around the Earth, was the accepted view of the cosmos for millennia.

Zinnia experimental plants growing aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have staged a dramatic New Year's comeback from a potential near death experience over the Christmas holidays, when traces of mold were discovered.

When space tourism gets underway, companies will have many options for getting people to and from the Moon, some faster than others.

"X" marks the spot that's illustrative of "convective churning" resulting from subsurface planetary heating, as seen in a fascinating new super high resolution image received from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2015.

In this interview, we talk to NASA's Scott Bolton about the Juno Mission to Jupiter.

The Solar System's planets have varied and interesting atmospheres, ranging from incredibly thin exospheres to ones that could literally crush a person.

Exactly 12 Years ago this week, NASA's now famous Spirit rover touched down on the Red Planet, starting a spectacular years long campaign of then unimaginable science adventures that ended up revolutionizing our understanding of Mars due to her totally unexpected longevity.

Have you ever wished that there was an instruction manual for life? "Success Strategies from Women in STEM" aims to be that book for women in research – a 'portable mentor' to help individual researchers find their way.

If you took a picture of the Sun every day, always at the same hour and from the same location, would the Sun appear in the same spot in the sky? This fine image, compiled by astrophotographer Giuseppe Petricca from Italy, proves the answer is no.

In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized astronomy by proposing his heliocentric model of the Universe

Now that SpaceX has successfully and safely demonstrated the upright recovery of their Falcon 9 booster that flew to the edge of space and back on Dec. 21 - in a historic first - the intertwined questions of how did it fare and what lies ahead for the intact first stage stands front and center.

Watch Venus pass less than five arc minutes from Saturn on Saturday, January 9th in one of the closest conjunctions of two naked eye planets in 2016. The Moon will also pay the pair a visit this week, as comet US10 Catalina hovers near naked eye visibility in the dawn. It's a great way to kick off astronomy in 2016!

Happy New Year 2016 from the International Space Station and Beyond! Behold Earth ! Courtesy of our Human and Robotic emissaries to the High Frontier we can ring in the New Year by reveling in gorgeous new views of our beautiful Home Planet taken from the space station and beyond.