Planetary scientists have claimed "large regions" of Mars are habitable for terrestrial life....

Spinning around its star some 600 light years away, Kepler-22b is 2.4 times the size of the Earth, p...

Scientists claim to have discovered a potentially habitable planet which has an environment much sim...

Engineers fought desperately to save Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft after the Martian probe sent "...

The explosions -gamma-ray bursts thought to occur when two stars collide -can release tons of high-e...

Supermassive black holes are such powerful gravitational forces that they suck in everything around ...

Researchers from the University of Leeds have found meteorite fragments contain a precursor to a key...

Scientists believe that the Martian surface is packed full of oxidising compounds, which could make ...

Researchers from the University of Western Australia and Oxford University say the remains of microb...