For the first time, images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft have unveiled bright and dark regions...

An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station is plungin...

Airbus Defence and Space has signed a contract with the French space agency (CNES) to build the plat...

Two Earth-like planets could be orbiting a star in Alpha Centauri, our closest star system, astronom...

Hundreds of kilometres below on Earth, their governments are locked in a standoff over Ukraine - but...

NASA's rover Curiosity has detected the first traces of nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a discovery...

A massive 1,000-metre wide asteroid capable of wiping out an entire country is set to narrowly miss ...

A pair of solar eruptions over the weekend have unleashed a severe geomagnetic storm that could disr...

NASA has launched four identical spacecraft on a billion-dollar mission to study the explosive give-...