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Astronauts can live in the suit for six days without taking it off. Food and waste will remain in the suit.

Cassini was more than 600,000km away from Saturn when the images for the mosaic were taken.

The spacecraft's original mission was just for two years and has seen five extensions.

Nasa planned a 90-day long mission for the rover in 2004 but Opportunity denied giving up and is still doing a great job on the Red Planet.

The spiral galaxy's swirling arms are where new stars are born, whose high temperatures make them shine a bright blue.

The total solar eclipse captured by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), kicked off this year's eclipse season.

The ocean, named Kraken Mare, measures 400,000 sq km and is mainly composed of liquid methane at -184 degrees Celsius.

Coincidentally, the crystals were discovered at a site on the Red Planet called Jura – named after a small island off the country's west coast.

New Horizons' record-breaking image was captured when it was even farther away from Earth than Nasa's Voyager 1 when it captured the infamous "Pale Blue Dot" photo of Earth.

Scientists sent ideas to the mission, named AMADEE-18, which quickly grew to 16 scientific experiments, such as testing a "tumbleweed" whip-fast robot rover and a new suit.

A video posted by Russian space agency Roscomos shows the badminton shuttle zip across in zero gravity as ISS astronauts float about playing the game.

Lauri Love has won his appeal against extradition to the United States for allegedly hacking the Federal Reserve and US Army.

The ash spewing from the volcano could be the key to cooling down our planet and prevent our ozone layer from being damaged.

The SLS rocket engine is one of the most powerful rockets ever made and can launch a spacecraft into deep space.

Astrophysicists discovered the cluster of extragalactic planets using an astronomical phenomenon called microlensing.

The data gathered during the Image spacecraft's five-year mission led to around 40 new discoveries about Earth's magnetosphere and plasmasphere.

Nasa focuses on encouraging astronauts to eat more in space to reduce dangerous body and bone mass loss in orbit.

The slab of rock, nearly as big as a dining table, tells how mammals and dinosaurs interacted in the Cretaceous era.

Sixty years ago, the US launched its first satellite - Explorer I - into space, kick-starting decades of scientific discovery.

The photo is a combination of 16 different shots taken by the Curiosity rover's MastCam imager from a vantage point.

The Surrey Space Centre is leading a Europe-wide initiative to tackle a truly global problem through the RemoveDebris mission.

Recycling solid and liquid waste into Marmite and Vegemite "microbial goo" could be the key to lasting food supplies in space.

Nasa's Gold mission will learn how charged waves of magnetism and hurricanes down on Earth affect the upper atmosphere.

The Kepler telescope has so far identified more than 2,300 confirmed exoplanets since beginning operations in 2009.

The announcement will come two months after Donald Trump signed a new space policy directive instructing Nasa to return to the moon.

Spacewalking Nasa astronauts gave a hand to the International Space Station's big robot arm as the US federal government geared back up into action.

The finding comes as Nasa continues to prepare for missions to Mars and beyond.

The light material will also be tested on an F-18 fighter jet to make its wings foldable.

From potentially hazardous asteroids to Saturn's moon Titan's incredible similarities to Earth – these are the best space stories of the week.

A new study based on data from the Cassini spacecraft reveals that Titan's seas lie at an average elevation, like Earth's oceans.