space

Gaia to create most accurate map of the Milky Way.

The annual Geminid meteor shower was described as 'perfect' and 'phenomenal' this year.

Unmanned mission touches down on lunar surface two weeks after launch.

China's first robotic lunar rover to land on Saturday, with more missions planned in 2017.

London-based firm Inmarsat launches commercial I-5 F1 satellite into space as it expands mobile satellite services.

Astronomers hopeful Comet Ison survived perihelion with sun and will survive to light up skies again.

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic accepts bitcoins as payment for commercial space flights.

An unexplained sphere described by Nasa as 'weird and freakish' with shooting jets of matter was spotted in the solar system.

Russian space-explorers to be given bamboo clothing as it is lighter and more durable.

Gravity is a spectacular space drama that exceeds the outer limits of what cinema had previously achieved.

Atmospheres of Saturn and Jupiter have as much as ten million tons of diamonds.

Young planet that has no star to orbit found 80 light years from Earth.

Believers attach religious significance to space debris and talk of apocalypse.

Animal rights groups accuse Iranian space agency of Cold War techniques for space exploration.

Han Lei accused of killing toddler by picking her out of pram and throwing her to the ground.

Measurements show spacecraft left heliosphere in August last year.

The UFOs appeared in a recording made by the Space Station's observation cameras.

3D pizza printer will have ingredients with 30-year shelf life in cartridges.

Australia based photographer Martin Pugh has won the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2012, a second time since the start of the competition.

Curiosity rover sends low-resolution images of Mars surface, hours after its safe landing.

In one of Nasa's most ambitious missions, Curiosity rover makes touchdown on the Red Planet.

The astronaut crew will carry out a series of experiments in the Tiangong-1 space lab in the next two weeks.

A new study reveals that there are twice as many emperor penguins live in Antarctica than previously thought.

In its efforts to get connected with the general public, Nasa is planning to host several programs for social media followers.

The algae bloom, which is about 200 kilometres wide and 100 kilometres long, was photographed from the Modis instrument on Nasa's Terra Satellite, at least 650 kms from the Earth.