Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope have discovered a distant planetary system...

In a first, astronomers have found a water-rich rocky planetary body outside our Solar System with b...

Earth will remain habitable for at least another 1.75 billion years, a new study suggests....

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

NASA's one-tonne Curiosity rover has captured the sharpest-ever images of a solar eclipse as seen fr...

The meteor that exploded and showered debris over Russia in February this year, injuring around 1,50...

The space agency is making final preparations to launch the small car-sized robotic Moon probe, LADE...

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) that discovered and characterised tens of thousands o...

Waking up to a new year! Researchers have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet 700 light-years away t...