NASA

At a million km closer to the sun than Mercury, the loner comet's fate as it goes around the sun is unsure.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 25, 2015

It is a massive increase on the 1 foot that it rose in the previous century

Sean Martin Feb 18, 2015

The tall ship sized object was spotted through Nasa's Helioviewer.

Kabita Maharana Feb 14, 2015

The 25-year-old snap taken by Voyager 1 showed the Earth as a pale blue dot in the vastness of space.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 14, 2015

Time-lapse video shows five years of images taken by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Alfred Joyner Feb 12, 2015

Archaeologists believe the object is man-made.

Arjun Varma Feb 08, 2015

In a birthday tribute to Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh, researchers release photos taken by LORRI.

Mary-Ann Russon Feb 05, 2015

The US government has taken a tentative step towards allowing commercial development of the moon.

David Sim Feb 03, 2015

SMAP will measure the 2in deep soil which holds less than 1% of Earth's water

Dominic Gover Feb 01, 2015

Quantum computing firm D-Wave raises C$29m in quest to bring about technological revolution.

Anthony Cuthbertson Jan 30, 2015

900m-wide asteroid 2004 BL86 missed earth by 'only' 750,000 miles last night

Mark Piggott Jan 27, 2015

University of Colorado Boulder researchers are developing the orbiting Aragoscope for Nasa.

Mary-Ann Russon Jan 27, 2015

The US space programme should save more than $12m (£7.95m) a seat flying astronauts to and from the International Space Station on commercial space taxis rather than aboard Russian capsules, the NASA programme manager said on Monday (January 26).

Adam Justice Jan 27, 2015

The probe has travelled three billion miles, and will begin sending back images of dwarf planet on Sunday.

Tom Porter Jan 25, 2015

Nasa and Microsoft developing OnSight - software that lets scientists work remotely using Curiosity Rover.

Mary-Ann Russon Jan 22, 2015

UFO enthusiast posts 130,000 pages of government's UFO records online

Arjun Varma Jan 21, 2015

Dawn currently speeding at around 725 kph for its scheduled capture into Ceres orbit in March.

Jayalakshmi K Jan 20, 2015

All 15 years from 2000 were in top 20 warmest. The odds of that are 1.5 million billion to one.

David Sim Jan 19, 2015

The measurement from a mountaintop is the first time Earth-bound sites have been used to measure emissions in the air.

Jayalakshmi K Jan 18, 2015

Check out photos of alleged UFO near international space station

Arjun Varma Jan 17, 2015

New Horizons probe awakes to complete its mission to explore the former planet.

Ben Skipper Jan 16, 2015

Asteroid 2004 BL86 will pass Earth by a range of 745,000 miles on 26 January.

Mary-Ann Russon Jan 15, 2015

SpaceX mission deemed a success despite failure of launcher to land on floating touchpad

Mark Piggott Jan 12, 2015

Nasa has released a series of posters advertising vacations in the outer world.

Jan 12, 2015

'Close, but no cigar': SpaceX director Elon Musk on failed attempt to land launcher on a floating platform.

Mark Piggott Jan 10, 2015

Nissan enters five-year partnership with Nasa to share self-driving technology and help develop autonomous Mars rover

Alistair Charlton Jan 09, 2015

Live streaming of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch attempt on Saturday will be available online.

Anthony Cuthbertson Jan 09, 2015

Launch of Falcon 9 rocket carrying cargo capsule to ISS put off due to snag.

Jayalakshmi K Jan 09, 2015

Countdown aborts moments before launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 reusable rocket carrying ISS supplies

Anthony Cuthbertson Jan 06, 2015

The Langley Research Center is exploring inflatable heat shields to safely land spacecraft on Mars.

Jayalakshmi K Jan 06, 2015