NASA's HIRise camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a series of stunning new photographs.
NASA are planning to send a spacecraft in to the outer atmosphere of the Sun in an ambitious new project.
Some believe that our universe was designed by a creator but could its creator be a civilization of people ?
A peculiar elongated crater on the surface of Mars that doesn't fit with standard models has left astronomers baffled.
University researchers have found evidence to suggest that the sun could be emitting an unknown mystery particle.
The largest known solar system beyound our own has been discovered around a sun-like star 127 light years away.
The world's first amateur rocket designed to carry humans in to space has been developed in Denmark.
Astronomers observing a huge galaxy cluster believe that the universe will keep on expanding indefinately.
The planet Neptune is nearing the end of its first complete orbit since it was discovered in 1846.
A successor to Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft could launch as early as 2014 to explore the origins of life.
NASA's Robonaut 2 will soon be the first human-like robot to go in to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Scientists believe that despite water being found on the moon it is still too dry to have ever supported life.
A Polish cosmologist has determined that an entire universe could exist within every black hole in the cosmos.
With interest in Venus increasing NASA are considering ways in which to explore the planet in a future mission.
A new high resolution image of the infamous Face on Mars has revealed it as nothing more than a rocky hill.
The largest ever known molecules the size of footballs have been detected in cosmic dust around a distant star.
Entrepreneur Michael Laine believes we possess the technology to build a space elevator on the surface of the moon.
A new discovery could prove to answer one of the most enduring astronomical conundrums - how large stars are born.
NASA's Messenger probe has revealed intense electromagnetic storms in the planet's magnetic "tail".
A new study has suggested that dark matter could be building up within our own Sun.