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Astronomers say that the alien object, named Oumuamua is like nothing that has ever been seen before.

The Earth is being hit by a massive amount of anti-matter called positrons, but scientists are still to discover the source of the particles.

Nasa's space nuclear reactor tech could "empower" future Mars colonies, transforming the planet's resources into water, oxygen and more.

The exoplanet has been designated Ross 128 b and is the second closest temperate planet to be found after Proxima b.

Scientists predict there is a "100% chance" of spotting gravitational waves from supermassive black holes within a decade.

Scientists have selected the Caenorhabditis elegans and tardigrades to be the first candidates to travel to interstellar space.

China's space agency reportedly says that the reusable spacecraft is capable of taking off from a runway and shooting across orbital space.

A competition to design cities and buildings on Mars has been won by a research team from MIT. Their dome design has space for entire forests.

Although the asteroids are located a mere 160 million miles from Earth, they still appear in photos of distance galaxies at much farther distances.

Nasa's Halloween playlist includes eerie radio emissions from Saturn to hair-raising sounds from Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede.

Astronauts living in the International Space Station spoke to Pope Francis in a unique and harmonious exchange of science and religion.

The comet entered the Solar System travelling at a speed of 26 Kms per second and may have come from the constellation Lyra, where the bright star Vega resides.

Scientists used a model that "realistically simulates atmospheric conditions" that led to the discovery of a new process to search for alien planets that could support life.

The existence of a giant open lava tube in the Marius Hills region of the moon has been confirmed, which could be used as a potential moon base.

Experts reportedly believe the Russian sensor, which was delivered to the space station last week, could be linked to a controversial military endeavour.

Tiangong-1, China's nearly nine-tonne space station, is currently out of control and has been gradually falling towards the Earth since last year, when engineers lost contact with it.

For the first time ever, scientists have detected both gravitational waves and light from the same astronomical event, dubbed GW170817.

Nasa astronaut Randy Bresnik shared a video of fidget spinners and ISS astronauts spinning in zero-gravity.

A bird crossed the Sun at the exact same time as the ISS, which was flying past at over 28,000kms per hour.

"There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine," says planetary astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin.

A new study indicates that an "uneven dust cloud" moving around the star may be causing the strange dimming, likely ruling out the alien megastructure theory.

Nasa's Osiris-Rex spacecraft, on its way to the asteroid Bennu, flew past the Earth and took a picture from 170,000km away.

The 4 billion-year-old binary star system nicknamed Kronos and Krios are around 320 light years away from the Earth.

The NROL-42 satellite was launched from the Vandenberg air force base in California.

Fast radio bursts continue to pose a mystery to scientists, with questions surrounding where they originate from.

The unique planetary body is the first to be classified as both a binary asteroid and a main-belt comet.

The swirling Venusian winds and atmosphere are even more powerful and chaotic in the constantly shadowed night side of Venus.

The star hosting the three newly-discovered exoplanets is the closest one to Earth found to date.

Data from Nasa's Dawn mission suggests that the asteroid may contain ice buried under its surface.

Nasa also released a letter penned by astronaut Frank Culbertson, who was the only crew member aboard the ISS at the time of the attacks.