SPACE

Nicknamed 'The Rock', the asteroid will fly by at a safe distance of 1.8 million kilometres.

The latest image will help scientists characterise the moon's shape and geology.

The space agency may fall short of finances for its Mars Mission.

The set of global maps depicting the Earth at night are the first to be released since 2012.

Plumes of hydrogen spurting through ice could support life on one of Saturn's 53 moons.

The same reactions that support life on Earth at hydrothermal vents might also be present on Enceladus.

'Go to the bathroom in advance,' Bezos said.

Nasa has said return of raw material samples from Moon is a "high scientific priority".

Scientists have obtained a composite image of dark matter bridge between galaxies.

Scientists spent five nights observing two supermassive black holes, one of which is at the heart of the Milky Way.

The Great Cold Spot is as big as the Great Red Spot but has eluded astronomers for decades.

Oceans of water on other planets could support extraterrestrial life.

From the first person in space to the first music video ever recorded on the International Space Station, astronauts keep breaking new records.

The metal atoms in the Red Planet's atmosphere come from a 'constant rain of tiny meteoroids'.

Auroras are well studied on Saturn and Jupiter, but less so on Uranus.

April's Full Moon is often referred to as the 'pink moon'.

Growing crops on Mars may not be science fiction after all.

The Great Red Spot is distinctly visible on the photo.

The galactic event is believed to have taken place 500 years ago.

Global network of telescopes will be used to try to take a picture of a supermassive black hole.

The exoplanet, 39 light years away, appears to have an atmosphere rich in water and methane.

Experiment is aimed at recreating weightlessness of International Space Station.

As the end of the orbiter's mission approaches, IBTimes shows some of its best photographs.

Astrophysicists show three events that can lead to merger through LIGO gravitational waves.

The aim is to send humans to Mars from the docking station.

Gamma ray burst detected from 12 billion light years away - but no one knows what caused it.

Rees says extraterrestrial life would either be far less advanced - or they will have developed full electronic intelligence.

The exoplanet Kepler-150 f orbits a star about 3,000 light years away from Earth.

'The new images look like Van Gogh paintings,' said Juno's principal investigator Scott Bolton.