The planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft which is carrying out a new mission has made its first exoplane...

The European Space Agency will unveil which of five possible sites it has chosen for the first-ever ...

Japanese space scientists have unveiled the asteroid hunting space probe "Hayabusa-2" they hope to l...

After voyaging 6.4 billion kilometres through the Solar System for over a decade, European Space Age...

Researchers have developed a powerful new model to detect life on planets outside our Solar System m...

If the icy surface of Pluto's giant moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures could show tha...

Astronomers have found a dwarf planet in the depths of space well past Pluto, a discovery that sugge...

A team of astronomers from UK and Chile has discovered eight new small exoplanets orbiting nearby re...

The US space agency has announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a "bonanza" of 715 wo...