The $3.4 billion contract will enable the development of a human landing system for a week-long excursion to the Moon in 2029.
A reassuring new study has found that we may be safe from extinction asteroid impacts... at least for the time being.
The telescope has provided us with an unprecedented view of the cosmos, but at it stands, its days are numbered.
The space agency has stressed that there may be very little warning that a disruptive solar storm is about to hit the Earth.
The new owners of the residential property got the fright of their lives when the space rock crashed through their ceiling.
China's answer to the X-37B has returned to Earth once again after nearly a year of unspecified activities in space.
Revisited data from the Voyager 2 probe seems to point to the possibility of not only oceans, but habitability as well.
The rover, which fell silent over a year ago and may never wake up, observed evidence of water just before it entered hibernation.
There is evidence to suggest that the satellite - named Kosmos-2558 - is tailing a confidential US satellite.
The Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander would have been the first privately built spacecraft to land on the lunar surface.
The image was recently captured by the UAE's Emirates Mars Mission spacecraft.
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'.