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In a historic move, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were able to edit DNA in space using CRISPR-Cas9.

Technological advances in the miniaturization of satellites could bring connectivity to the vast equatorial regions of the world which have benefited less than the developed world from the digital era.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk expressed his confidence about their future Mars spaceflights.

To the ordinary person, commercial space travel may seem like a pipe dream, but at an embryonic level a few well-funded space companies are creaking into action.

The star, S0-2, is one of two that can travel closest to the Sagittarius A* black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

The exoplanet known as WASP-39b has a mass equal to that of Saturn and has been classified as a "hot Saturn".

The new discovery also provides clues that could revolutionise our understanding of the mysterious dark matter particles.

New research revealed that water on the moon is more widespread and immobile than previously thought.

Scientists used Nasa's Hubble telescope to make the most precise measurements of the Universe's expansion rate till date.

Thanks to Kepler, we now know that planets around other stars are the rule rather than the exception.

Researchers have not been able to fully explain the physical processes that produce the colourful aurorae.

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.

Researchers say that a stellar event known as a grand minimum will likely take place in the near future, causing our star to give off less radiation.

Photos showing Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster floating in space above the curvature of the earth sparked arguments with flat-earther conspiracy theorists online.

The space agency also predicts that the spacecraft will re-enter somewhere between the 43rd north and south parallels.

Trappist-1 planetary system contains seven Earth-sized worlds which may be able to support life, say scientists.

Blazars produce vast, hyper-fast jets of incredibly intense radiation and material, which can stretch for hundreds of thousands of light years.

Lupus 3, is located 600 light years from Earth within the constellation Scorpius, near the centre of the Milky Way.

Tomorrow, a total lunar eclipse - which will be visible from Asia, Australasia and North and Central America - will coincide with a 'blue moon' and a 'supermoon'.

Earth's magnetic field is crucial to the survival of life on our planet as it deflects damaging cosmic rays and solar winds.

These so-called "cosmic messenger particles" are some of the highest energy particles known to science.

New research has investigated the amount of light available in the newborn universe, which may offer some clues.

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.

"While we think we know how planets form in a big-picture sense, there's still a lot of detail we need to fill in," says Kevin Schlaufman.

Current instruments designed to search for alien life tend to be relatively large, heavy and power-hungry. In addition, they can only detect indirect biological signatures.

In two weeks' time, a kilometre-wide space rock will skim past the Earth at speeds of around 67,000mph.

The star was found being "flung backwards and forwards" at several hundred thousand kilometer per hour speed, every 167 days.

While astronomers have predicted this type of event before, it has never been observed directly in a distant galaxy.

The technology works in much the same way as Global Positioning Systems on Earth, albeit on a cosmic scale.