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

Jeanette Hanna-Ruiz says cybersecurity is a top priority for the space agency.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Argon was lost from Mars' atmosphere in a process called 'sputtering'.

Engineers have worked out how to precisely measure the distance between Earth and a satellite in orbit.

The images to be searched are of the southern sky which is less explored.

Nasa's long-term project is aimed at boosting communications technology for future missions to the moon and Mars and beyond.

Bean says that if an advanced alien civilisation had been to Earth they would have made contact.

Scientists think they have found the mechanism responsible for DNA damage as we age.

Sea levels are rising at China's coasts by more than 3mm a year.