A prior study demonstrated that Pluto's center is sufficiently warm to bolster a fluid water sea, and now we've discovered that it may be immense - no less than 100 km (62 miles) profound.
An international team of astronomers led by Italian Claudio Maccone has published the first preliminary data on the signal, which comes from a star 95 light years away.
Richard Branson's dream of commercial space tourism is a step closer to reality. His Virgin Galactic company has been granted an operating licence by US aviation officials to fly passengers to the point of weightlessness.
A NASA news release describes a recently published study which has found that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot appears to act as a heat source and is likely the reason behind the planet’s surprisingly high upper atmospheric temperatures.
Icy world 2015 RR245 has been classified a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. It was found using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii.
On July 4, 2016, NASA's Juno spacecraft will plunge into uncharted territory, entering orbit around the gas giant and passing closer than any spacecraft before. Juno will see Jupiter for what it really is.
First mirror image molecule spotted in interstellar space.
Four sister robots built by NASA could be pioneers in the colonization of Mars, but first the 2-million-dollar robots are finding new homes on Earth.
After launching the JCSAT-14 satellite, the first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket attempted and succeeded an experimental landing on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
The bold announcement from private spaceflight company occurred on April 27th, 2016 via their social feeds. They plan on launching the 'Red Dragon' spacecrafts atop Falcon 9 Heavy rockets, that are still under development.
NASA engineers are conducting tests to develop models for the Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transport System (HERTS) concept. An electric sail could potentially send scientific payloads to the edge of our solar system, the heliopause, in less than 10 years.
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully landed on an ocean barge!
This animation is based on photometric observations made by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. By closely monitoring the star KSN 2011d, located 1.2 billion light-years away, Kepler caught the onset of the early flash and subsequent explosion.
Europe and Russia have launched a joint mission to the Red Planet. The probe will investigate whether the methane in the world's atmosphere is coming from a geological source or is being produced by microbes.
Gravitational waves sent out from a pair of colliding black holes have been converted to sound waves, as heard in this animation.
