This September will be a skywatcher's delight as the third supermoon of this year, along with Mars, Saturn, and some of the evening's brightest stars, will be visible in the sky throughout the month.
Five geckos sent into orbit on a Russian space satellite as part of a breeding experiment have all died, the Russian space agency reports.
NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is due for a flash memory reformat in an effort to resolve an increasingly bad case of robot amnesia.
As they wrap up measuring just how loud a test model of the new Space Launch System rocket can be, NASA engineers are crunching numbers to figure out how they can make sure the rocket's lift-off isn't so loud it destroys itself.
NASA has recently tested a number of specially 3D printed rocket parts, showing just how efficient the technology really is, and how it could potentially revolutionize how the agency makes use of additive manufacturing in rocket design.
Astronomers using a combination of land and space telescopes believe they have, for the first time, identified a "building site" for galaxy construction, with millions of newborn stars blazing into existence.
Astronomers may have finally settled a long-standing controversy when it comes to the Pleiades, a famous star cluster. They've accurately measured the distance from our planet to the star cluster - within one percent - which may correct models of star formation.
In the case of supernovae, it was long thought that dying white dwarf stars were left out of the equation, simply too small to spark the awe-inspiring explosion. Now researchers believe they figured out how some stars managed to still pull off the self-destructive stunt - re-igniting with the help of a nearby buddy.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted what it suspects is an asteroid smashup - the type of collision that can lead to the formation of new planets, according to a new study.
Back in Jan. 2005, a massive storm of solar space-weather engulfed the Earth, providing a relatively rare opportunity for scientists to study these storms in the hopes of one day being able to accurately predict their arrival and potential effects on human technology.
Located in the heart of the Sun, physicists have for the first time directly detected neutrinos, revealing a little about our closest star and the sources of its energy, a new study describes.
NASA officially announced the approval of the next generation rocket called the Space Launch System (SLS) on Wednesday, enabling the agency to move away from formulation tests and into the practical stages of development.
Even with the Rosetta Spacecraft successfully caught up and in orbit of its quarry, the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, its mission is far from over. Experts involved in the Rosetta mission must now prepare to set a lander down on the comet - a task that will take a great deal of planning.
An international team of astronomers has managed to obtain the best images of a collision between two galaxies ever seen. Light from the collision has taken a significant amount of time to reach Earth, and what we're seeing is an inter-galactic clash that took place when the Universe was half its current age.