A rock analysed by Mars rover has a surprising and more varied composition than expected, resembling...

Comet ISON is visiting the inner solar system and is set to put on spectacular views for the Norther...

A NASA team will fly to space to investigate a giant asteroid and deflect it if it's on collision co...

India will not undertake a human space flight before the year 2017 and is likely to use a next-gener...

Instead of a warm, wet and possibly life-bearing planet as some scientists contend, early Mars may h...

An Atlas V rocket has successfully placed in orbit the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) which is o...

The phenomenon of plate tectonics, previously thought to exist only on Earth also occurs beneath the...

The ancient Martian crater where the Curiosity rover landed looks strikingly similar to the Mojave D...

New images of a spiral galaxy almost 60 million light-years away from the Earth have shown that it h...