Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has succeeded in its first solo glide flight at 45,000 feet.
New research has suggested that water carried on asteroids is a lot more common than believed.
Can mankind ever hope to explore space or are we simply biologically unable to cope with it ?
Digitally remastered footage of the Apollo 11 moon landings has been shown for the first time.
NASA has greenlit an ambitious Mars mission designed to study how the planet lost its atmosphere.
Data from the Cassini spacecraft has shown that Titan's gravity lifts up part of the ring in a 'tidal wave'.
An Earth-like planet only 20 light years away has been tipped as having the perfect conditions for life.
NASA's deputy administrator has said that the Moon still has a role to play in the agency's plans.
A company in Russia have unveiled plans to build and launch an orbiting hotel for space tourists.
Long-lost footage showing Neil Armstrong descending on to the lunar surface is to be screened in Sydney.
Scientists are researching the possibility of using synthetic life forms to create food and fuel.
Astronomers have succeeded in filming Saturn's magnificant Aurora using the Cassini space probe.
Scientists have come up with substantial evidence to suggest that Phobos was formed during a catastrophic event.
The planet Jupiter will be particularly bright in the night sky during its closest approach this month.
Any life that existed here 3.9 billion years ago would have been wiped out in a massive asteroid bombardment.
Boeing has announced that it intends to enter the space tourism industry with flights as early as 2015.
Scientists have found further evidence for the existence of a new medium sized category of black hole.
Scientists are hopeful that a space telescope to be launched in 2014 will be able to see oceans on other planets.
Future missions involving swarms of spacecraft could see one of the group self-destruct for the good of the collective.
Scientists have revisited the idea that organic molecules could be present in the soil on Mars.