Carnegie Mellon University spinoff Astrobotic Technology has now completed a full-size prototype of a solar-powered robot designed to search for water ice at the moon's poles.
The ESA's Hershel space observatory recently discovered enough water vapor to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing into a new Sun-like star.
The Dragon Space X commercial cargo ship was lofted into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 8:35 p.m. EDT, putting on a spectacular show of light and thunder from the rocket's nine engines.
A star has been discovered orbiting tightly round the massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, making its circuit in just eleven and a half years.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel space observatory has spotted pristine material that matches comets in our own Solar System in a dust belt around the young star Beta Pictoris.
The high-resolution stereo camera on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express has captured a series of breathtaking images depicting a region within the 1800 km-wide and 5 km-deep Argyre basin.
Astronomers are scratching their heads after discovering not one, but two black holes at the center of a globular star cluster - something they didn't think was possible.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) third Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ferry has completed the final part of its successful six-month servicing mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft has spotted a surprisingly cold region high in the planet's atmosphere that may be frigid enough for carbon dioxide to freeze out as ice or snow.
