Astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of a disc around a planet outside our Solar System for the first time.

The 22-foot, 3,000-pound, steel and carbon fiber spaceman, positioned arms up in a V inspired by a signature Michael Jackson pose

NASA wants standards for evaluating claims of extraterrestrial life to help the public judge if discoveries are believable or not

Can you make food from thin air? NASA asked the same question and the challenge of feeding a year-long space mission led to a discovery

The technique is being developed to detect venusquakes. A new study details how it made the first balloon-borne detection of a quakes

The US space agency on Saturday celebrated the 100th birthday of astronaut John Glenn who changed the history of spaceflight

Spanning 420,000-square-feet, the expansive facility in the city's Pudong district, is the largest astronomy (only) museum in the world.

Europa is the sixth nearest moon to Jupiter and is roughly the same size as our own. Thanks to data retrieved by the Galileo space probe

Virgin Orbit has followed on from its first trip to space with a mission that marks the beginning of its commercial satellite launch service

Designed to improve navigation for robotic explorers and the operation of GPS satellites, the technology demonstration reports a significant

Wally Funk was one of 13 female aviators who lobbied for women to become astronauts in the early days of spaceflight.

For the first time, scientists detected gravitational waves caused by mergers between black holes and neutron stars.

A team led by astronomers at UC Santa Barbara have confirmed the existence of an elusive new type of supernova

Either liquid water Is common beneath Mars’ South Pole, or these signals are indicative of something else.

China has set its sights on Mars. It's great to see China stepping up, and committing to goals like landing the first humans on Mars.

The ESA says it is “blown away” by the record 22,000 astronaut applicants including women and 200 people with disabilities.

Scientists believe that 1,715 star-systems could have spotted Earth since human civilization blossomed about 5,000 years ago.

NASA has selected two new missions to Venus. the missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world...

The relationship between personality, genes and chronotype (sleep patterns) has been studied by researchers at the University of Warwick

There’s no such thing as laundry day on the International Space Station;until now. P&G is working with NASA to test a new detergent in space