Stories by SPACE.com

Following a smooth cargo launch, a reusable Falcon 9 rocket booster touches down successfully on a drone ship

Scientists blast comet-like ice with radiation like that in space, creating a key building block for life

The discovery of an object 17 billion times the sun's mass may mean many more such monsters are out there

In Abandoned in Place photographer Roland Miller takes readers on a tour of the right stuff turned to relics

Jeff Bezos's private spaceflight company sticks another vertical landing in unmanned test

Images reveal what may be an Earth-like world forming around the nearby star TW Hydrae

KELT-4Ab is only the fourth known system to contain three stars

Amateur astronomer captures stunning time-lapse video of the impact

Ice deposits that formed in craters on opposite sides of the moon suggest it once rotated on a  different axis

Ground-based telescopes bolster the case for hazes emanating from Ceres's mysterious bright spots

NASA wants the rocket engine to help launch astronauts on the agency's first crewed mission beyond Earth’s orbit since the last of the Apollo moon missions

The two robotic spacecraft are the first part of the two-phase European–Russian ExoMars program to hunt for signs of life on the Red Planet

Essential info for viewing Tuesday's night sky show

The new vehicle replaces the company's original SpaceShipTwo, which was destroyed in a fatal accident 15 months ago

The space agency will decide whether the InSight heads to the Red Planet in mid-2018, or not at all

Scientists are still searching for what's behind the perceived dimming of Tabby's Star

When the Space Launch System launches in 2018, its passengers will be 13 small CubeSats off to explore the solar system

The study provides a first-of-its-kind look under the hood of solar eruptions

PDCO will synchronize U.S. efforts and coordinate with international agencies to deal with large asteroids and comets on a collision course with Earth

Gas-giant exoplanet orbits 600 billion miles from its host star, 175 times farther than Pluto is from the sun

On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle exploded just 73 seconds after blasting off, killing all seven astronauts on board

Rocketing along at more than 960,000 miles per hour, the rare star is stained in mysterious carbon

Evidence of this new addition to our solar system is indirect at the moment, but direct evidence could come relatively soon, in the form of a telescope observation, Planet Nine's proposers say

The space agency just released an image of the spherical Tethys and the lumpy Janus, with the planet's rings in the foreground