Iran has settled on a Persian cat as the best candidate for its latest trial for a manned space miss...

A pair of converted military drones are the US space agency's newest tools for tracking hurricanes a...

The three crew members of the International Space Station, who recently returned to Earth, endured a...

Thirty-six years after being launched and having travelled about 19 billion kilometres from the sun,...

The third largest near-Earth object - believed for 30 years to be an asteroid - is actually a comet,...

A science satellite dubbed the "Ferrari of space" for its sleek, finned looks will shortly run out o...

A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and an American touched down on Earth on Wednesday after undoc...

In a major milestone, NASA's new black-hole-hunter spacecraft - NuSTAR - has detected its first 10 s...

LADEE is a robotic mission that will orbit the moon where it will provide unprecedented information...