NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back its first colour image of the dwarf planet Pluto and it...

The Solar Probe Plus mission - which will fly closer to the sun than any spacecraft has before - rea...

The orbiter conducted tests to modulate speed, height and orbit in a simulative moon sampling missio...

Beagle-2 was released from its mother craft on December 19, 2003 and was due to land six days later....

Japan on Wednesday launched a rocket carrying a space probe destined for a distant asteroid, just we...

Bad weather will delay the launch of a Japanese space probe on a six-year mission to mine a distant ...

NASA has sent its Mars Curiosity rover to investigate a mysterious set of rocks on the Red Planet....

Data streamed in as soon as Europe's pioneering robot lab reestablished late-night contact with its ...

Europe has made history by placing the first-ever lander on a comet -- but the robot failed to ancho...