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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

Space agency will discuss its future plans for space explorations that will 'unlock mysteries of the solar system'.

Hannah Osborne Jan 04, 2017

The spacewalk veteran said he was living life at "20 times normal speed" after finding out he had terminal illness.

Divya Kishore Dec 24, 2016

The savoury treat's space odyssey was recorded on camera.

Romil Patel Dec 16, 2016

As Nasa's Earth science programmes are in the firing line, scientists protest against burying evidence.

Martha Henriques Dec 15, 2016

Chinese government confirms it has been funding EmDrive research since 2010 and believes in its benefits.

Mary-Ann Russon Dec 13, 2016

Nasa's Earth science research is looking vulnerable, and the species it monitors are looking worse.

Martha Henriques Dec 13, 2016

The hot gas giant planet HAT-P-7 b is a gas giant and could have enormous storm systems like Jupiter's.

Martha Henriques Dec 12, 2016

Nasa is brainstorming to prevent cosmic radiation from damaging a nano-starship on a 20-year long journey.

Mary-Ann Russon Dec 12, 2016

John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth, the oldest man in space and once ran for president.

Martha Henriques Dec 09, 2016

The last surviving member of the original seven American 'Right Stuff' Mercury astronauts, has died at the age of 95.

David Sim Dec 09, 2016

Understanding what causes visual impairment in astronauts is key to mount a mission to Mars.

Léa Surugue Nov 28, 2016

A vast, shallow repository of ice has been discovered in a convenient spot for landing and living on the Red Planet.

Martha Henriques Nov 23, 2016

The Bok globule is a small cloud that gives birth to stars, and is most distant of its kind to have been discovered.

Martha Henriques Nov 22, 2016

The Nasa Eagleworks paper says EmDrive works because of the pilot-wave theory, generating 1.2mN/kW of thrust.

Mary-Ann Russon Nov 19, 2016

Whitson sets another milestone by becoming first woman to have twice taken command of the ISS.

William Watkinson Nov 18, 2016

Extremely spherical star discovered slowly rotating 5,000 light years from Earth.

Hannah Osborne Nov 17, 2016