New data from the Opportunity rover suggests that life forms may have once lived within rocks on mars.
The European Space Agency is to send a 1bn-Euro space probe to visit Jupiter and its icy moons.
A group of entrepreneurs are planning to use robots to mine precious materials from nearby asteroids.
A new robotic device that uses lasers shot through fiber-optic cable has been developed by scientsts.
Over the next two days programmers from around the world will try to solve problems put forth by NASA.
The first ever space station resupply mission by a commercial operator is scheduled for the end of April.
10 million square kilometres of the Martian surface is believed to comprise of volcanic glass.
Experts have been researching how a weightless environment could affect whisky maturation.
At 127 light years distant the HD 10180 system shares many similarities with our own Solar System.
In the future we could see businesses and governments laying claim to plots of land on other worlds.
The ambitious Square Kilometre Array will be 50 times more sensitive than existing radio telescopes.
Future spacecraft could one day use dead stars as a way to determine their position in space.
The Cassini spacecraft has captured new images of the geysers on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has discovered the five F-1 engines that launched Apollo 11 in to space.
The crew of the International Space Station took shelter when space debris was detected nearby.
SpaceX entrepreneur Elon Musk is aiming for a future in which tickets to Mars cost $500,000 per person.
NASA has released ultra high quality footage taken from the shuttle's rocket boosters during launch.
In the event of an impending collision, would a nuclear bomb be enough to stop a killer asteroid ?
A leaked document suggests Russia is planning on embarking on a manned mission to the Moon.
Scientists believe all of Saturn's moons may have oxygen around them, but could anything be living there?