The two private space firms are gearing up for their first commercial flights, but who will get there first ?
A groundbreaking discovery on Venus has indicated that it is even more Earth-like than previously believed.
Scientists have finally determined exactly what caused the enormous star to dim so significantly back in 2019.
The first of NASA's enormous Space Launch System (SLS) rockets stands as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
The star, which is 100 times the size of the Sun, underwent an extended period of anomalous dimming.
The Amazon founder and his brother will be aboard the first human flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard.
For the first time in over 30 years, the space agency will be venturing back to the second planet from the Sun.
A puncture caused by space junk has been discovered on a robotic arm outside the International Space Station.
A mission to collect samples from Saturn's moon Titan and return them to Earth could be on the cards.
It might sound like science fiction, but the idea of linking two black holes together actually does have some merit.
The space agency is planning to launch a constellation of lunar navigation and telecommunication satellites.
Bidders are hoping to win a seat aboard the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft.
China made history on Sunday by becoming only the second nation to land a rover on the surface of Mars.
For the first time, scientists have found liquid water inside a meteorite from the earliest days of the solar system.
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft is now on its way back to Earth with samples collected from the asteroid Bennu.
After five attempts, the space firm has been successful in landing its prototype rocket without it blowing up.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has broken two of its own records and it still has a long way to go yet.
A Chinese rocket that is currently in a failing orbit is likely to at least partially survive re-entry and fall to Earth.
A planetary defense exercise at the weekend ended up 'destroying' an area of Europe around 100km wide.
Collins was one of the three astronauts who flew to the Moon during the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969.