The rover had been carrying the inadvertent passenger across the surface of Mars for over a year.
The impressive spacecraft exploded due to a malfunction just minutes after launching earlier today.
NASA's flagship space telescope has turned its sights towards Uranus and the results are breathtaking to say the least.
Pellet-beam propulsion has the potential to enable a spacecraft to cross the entire solar system within 5 years.
Elon Musk's flagship spacecraft could be going into space within days, according to recent reports.
The encouraging discovery could indicate the presence of a magnetic field and the potential for alien life.
A space company based in Tokyo is hoping to create something spectacular and to collect important data at the same time.
Scientists in Japan have found new evidence to suggest that the building blocks of life arrived on Earth from space.
One University of Louisville computer scientist has been exploring possible ways to escape to the 'real world'.
Scientists believe that they have definitively proven that the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua was not an alien spacecraft.
A meteor from another solar system landed on Earth back in 2014, but obtaining more information about it has proven challenging.
NASA has published images of the spacesuit that astronauts will be wearing when they next set foot on the Moon.
The head of space exploration at the UK Space Agency remains adamant that we are not alone in the universe.
Two Chinese astronauts recently conducted a secretive spacewalk outside the Tiangong space station.
New research has called into question whether today's Mars rovers are capable of finding signs of long-dead microbial life.
Dark energy could be the key to understanding a cyclical universe that contracts and expands over and over again.
An upcoming space mission will be carrying some rather unusual cargo when it launches in the near future.
A series of green laser beams descending from the sky appeared over the islands of Hawaii back on January 28th.
Astronomers have identified a very unusual galaxy that could help improve our understanding of dark matter.
It turns out that Saturn and the other gas giants are not the only planetary bodies in our solar system to have rings.