China has conducted tests close to the Moon to simulate an unmanned docking procedure needed in the ...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has created history by becoming the first mission to achieve orbit around the...

The Dawn spacecraft is on target to slip into orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres on Friday after a ...

The moons Nix and Hydra are visible in a series of images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft from ...

A NASA spacecraft has captured a giant solar filament which appears as a dark line snaked across the...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has beamed latest images of Pluto, as the probe makes way towards a h...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has begun its long-awaited, historic encounter with the dwarf planet ...

A new route to Mars could make manned missions much cheaper, easier and more frequent, according to ...

The newest heavy-class Angara rocket which has been developed with a view to launching manned spacec...