Get set to observe binocular Comet C/2013 X1 PanSTARRS this summer, as it moves from the dawn to the dusk sky. Here's our handy guide, with key dates, predictions and more.

Messier 12, a globular cluster located some 15,700 light-years from Earth, is one of the brightest objects in the Ophiuchus constellation

The science team leading NASA's New Horizons mission that unveiled the true nature of Pluto's long hidden looks during the history making maiden close encounter last July, have published a fresh global map that offers the sharpest and most spectacular glimpse yet of the mysterious, icy world.

A critical fuel control valve has been faulted for the Atlas V launch anomaly that forced a premature shutdown of the rockets first stage engines during its most recent launch of a Cygnus cargo freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) last month - that nevertheless was successful in delivering the payload to its intended orbit.

The Fermi Space Telescope has found the source of 'Big Bird', one of the most energetic neutrinos ever detected.

On the ecliptic plane, bordered by constellations of Perseus, Pisces, and Taurus, is the ancient constellation known as Aries

Russia's new spaceport, the Vostochny Cosmodrome, will allow Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, to conduct the bulk of its launches on home soil.

Mercury is a hot and hostile planet, but it has many things going for it that make it an attractive option for colonizing and even partial terraforming

NASA's Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover successfully bored a brand new hole in Mars at a tantalizing sandstone outcrop in the 'Lubango' fracture zone this past weekend on Sol 1320, Apr. 23, and is now carefully analyzing the shaken and sieved drill tailings for clues to Mars watery past atop the Naukluft Plateau.

Among Sir Isaac Newton's many contributions to science was the discovery of gravity. one of the fundamental forces of the Universe

How astronomers found an potentially new and exciting exoplanetary system lurking on a glass plate stored away for nearly a century.

SpaceX announced plans today, April 27, for the first ever private mission to Mars which involves sending an uncrewed version of the firms Dragon spacecraft to accomplish a propulsive soft landing - and to launch it as soon as 2018 including certain technical assistance from NASA.

Within the Saturn system, there are many moons which could present the opportunity terraforming. But to do so presents many challenges.

Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have identified the lost Beagle 2 lander on the Martian surface, and might explain why the Beagle 2 failed to deploy.

Earlier this morning, SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced via twitter that his company plans to mount its first mission to Mars by 2018