NASA

Nasa to hold news conference on exoplanets discovery on Wednesday 22 February.

Hannah Osborne Feb 21, 2017

The agency says the announcement is about planets that lie outside the solar system.

Agamoni Ghosh Feb 21, 2017

A body is only granted planet status if it meets a three-point criteria

Oli Gamp Feb 19, 2017

'Some of humanity's greatest adventures in orbit began at Launch Complex 39A,' Nasa said.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Feb 18, 2017

Faster interplanetary data transmission 'on the cusp' says space agency.

James Billington Feb 15, 2017

Dr Mike McCulloch says his theory explains why galaxies are not ripped apart, without needing dark matter.

Mary-Ann Russon Feb 13, 2017

Bikkannavar's phone was reportedly returned to him but he is unsure if sensitive material has been copied.

India Ashok Feb 13, 2017

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, IBTimes UK focuses on their experiences in STEM.

Lydia Smith Feb 11, 2017

Astronauts at the International Space Station capture lightning above an enormous thundercloud.

Martha Henriques Feb 10, 2017

Taraji P Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae star in Theodore Melfi's biographical comedy drama.

Amy West Feb 10, 2017

Nasa trials computer chip that can survive for multiple days and weeks in Venus-like conditions.

Mary-Ann Russon Feb 09, 2017

Report sets out potential science value for sending a lander to Europa to look for past or present life.

Hannah Osborne Feb 09, 2017

SpaceX said it plans to launch its Falcon 9 rockets every two to three weeks.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Feb 09, 2017

The ambitious announcement comes on the heels of the successful return of SpaceX to flight in January.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Feb 08, 2017

Last year, Uber published a white paper on developing vertical take-off and landing vehicles.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Feb 07, 2017

NASA scientists say that a greenhouse gas effect from carbon dioxide couldn't have warmed Mars enough to melt its ice.

Martha Henriques Feb 06, 2017

Preliminary results show long-duration space travel has several major effects on the human body.

Hannah Osborne Feb 02, 2017

Home: A VR Spacewalk puts you on a space station 250 miles above earth.

Owen Hughes Feb 01, 2017

The Cassini mission will come to a halt this year but it has already greatly improved scientists' knowledge of the sixth planet from the Sun.

Léa Surugue Jan 31, 2017

She had to undergo spaceflight training before a successful mission in 1963.

Jan 28, 2017

The Apollo 1 mission was slated to be NASA's first manned mission to the moon.

Agamoni Ghosh Jan 28, 2017

"We need peer-reviewed, evidence-based research more than ever now," the @RogueNASA account tweeted.

Hyacinth Mascarenhas Jan 27, 2017

The 45ft asteroid travelling at 16,600mph will pass earth at a distance of 162,252 miles.

Hannah Osborne Jan 24, 2017

He was spacecraft commander on his third and most famous space mission on Apollo 17.

Fiona Keating Jan 16, 2017

Taraji P Henson shared her praise for Spencer and the Martin Luther King weekend event on Instagram.

Amy West Jan 16, 2017

The actress received a Global Globe nomination for her role as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic film.

Samantha Payne Jan 14, 2017

This was astronauts Shane Kimbrough's fourth and Thomas Pesquet's first spacewalk.

Agamoni Ghosh Jan 14, 2017

Astronomers say asteroid 2017 AG13 had similar destructive potential as Chelyabinsk strike in 2013.

Mark Piggott Jan 10, 2017

X-rays and data from the Hubble Telescope show the densest cluster of black holes ever observed.

Martha Henriques Jan 06, 2017

NOAA's scientists weren't cooking the books, the independent data suggests.

Martha Henriques Jan 04, 2017