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...

Company demonstrates all technical mission phases in single flight for the first time, confirms on t...

Multiple "secret weapons" will be used on the Chang'e-3 lunar probe, scheduled to launch at the end ...

Researchers have inched closer to solving the longstanding mystery of the origins of cosmic rays whi...