SPACE

Astronomer says if people want to call Pluto the ninth planet, they can.

US government says nuclear weapons are for "potential use in planetary defence" against asteroids.

Reuters' photographer Yannis Behrakis travelled to Balsfjord in Norway for the Aurora Borealis.

MIT scientists say volcanic plume most likely created moon's biggest basin.

Tiny experimental satellites are increasing in number in low earth orbits with operators not de-orbiting them as per guidelines.

Cassini spacecraft monitoring mysterious feature in sea on Saturn's moon Titan.

Former Nasa astronaut says dependence on Russia for space technology is "humiliating".

Physicist Stephen Hawking says that understanding science can prove that God does not exist.

Four fireballs were seen in the sky over the US east coast.

Scientists have succeeded in stringing the world's smallest diamonds into super-strong nanothreads

Organic molecule found in interstellar space offers insight into how life began

People with over-active imaginations have spotted all sorts of things on the Red Planet.

China eyes the Red Planet following the success of its Jade Rabbit moon mission

Nasa rover photographs strangely shaped objects on surface of Mars.

Pioneering study finds original source of Earth's water was ice formed in interstellar space.

Nasa has produced a poster spoofing The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

Made In Space is testing moon dust as a 3D printing ingredient

HAT P-11b, 729 trillion miles away, has been discovered to have water vapour in its atmosphere.

Asteroid hunter keeps a watchful eye on the universe for potential new discoveries

Study finds plasma bubbles aided enemy in 2002 Operation Anaconda against Taliban and al-Qaida.

India has become the first nation to place a Martian probe in orbit in the very first attempt.

Science behind autumn equinox not as straightforward as it seems.

Nasa scientists say Maven's attempt to enter Mars' orbit this weekend is a 'critical event' that could pave the way for human voyages to Mars.

Large galaxies are growing by consuming smaller ones

Scientist picks holes in late-1990s disaster classics.

Companies win lucrative contracts to provide NASA with space transport system

European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has a landing site on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Virgin Galactic commercial space flights scheduled for this year have been pushed back to March 2015.

Nasa scientists simulate distant planets' atmospheres to find environments best suited to alien life.