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The fire experiments were conducted within Earth-orbiting spacecraft carrying ISS trash.

The mission will involve conducting experiments aboard the ISS that might help boost future human exploration to distant space bodies.

The newly discovered planetary body is the lightest exoplanet found orbiting an M-dwarf star.

The space agency is set to launch its solar probe that will break its own record.

Psyche is an asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter and is made almost entirely out of iron.

The 3 spacecraft were idle for a year but now one has reportedly veered off orbit and is slowly moving towards a foreign satellite.

The discovery shines light on how moons were formed in the young solar system.

China has recently ramped up its space programme and plans to launch a lunar mission in 2018.

Scientists spent five nights observing two supermassive black holes, one of which is at the heart of the Milky Way.

The metal atoms in the Red Planet's atmosphere come from a 'constant rain of tiny meteoroids'.

Nasa's long-term project is aimed at boosting communications technology for future missions to the moon and Mars and beyond.

Astronomers believe cosmic collisions between galaxy clusters have created giant magnetic fields.

Nasa's Voyagers will fly into interstellar space carrying golden records with music and messages from earthlings.

James Webb is the most powerful and the largest ever built telescope.

The discovery was made using deep space telescopes in Australia and Nasa's Chandra and NuStar.

The Indian spacecraft was last heard from in August 2009, before disappearing into space.

Nasa spent 74 days observing Trappist-1 from the Kepler Space Telescope as part of its K2 mission.

Nasa's Cold Atom Lab has been designed to create temperatures 'over a 100 million times colder than the depths of space.'

Nasa believes a magnetic field around Mars could help further human exploration and colonisation.

IBTimes UK lists the coolest of Nasa's now freely available software.

Newly unveiled laws could see UK constructing its first spaceport by 2020, enabling satellite launches.

Mission will bring China closer to establishing a permanent orbital outpost.

The eclipse occurs when the Moon is at a point in its orbit, farther away from Earth.

Scientists discovered over 17,000 kms of river channels in Mars' Arabia Terra by analysing Nasa's high resolution images.

The map will measure light from 35 million galaxies to better understand dark matter and galaxy evolution.

MeerKAT will become a part of the international Square Kilometre Array project, which is slated to be set up by 2020

The Mars rover will share some of its hardware from its predecessor the Curiosity rover to save costs

The map helps scientists to study dark energy - a mysterious force driving the universe's rapid expansion

China is expected to launch the satellite into space in July.

The raging Canadian wildfire has destroyed over 1,600 homes and could last for months.