SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has hinted at having astronauts run around the BFR like in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Astronomers have found a solar system 160 light years away with three planets roughly the size of our own.
This remarkable footage shows a seemingly enormous Moon disappearing rapidly beneath the horizon.
NASA has announced this week that complex organic matter has been found in an ancient lake bed on Mars.
It appears as though the space agency's Curiosity rover has discovered something interesting on Mars.
Scientists have come up with an alternative explanation for the peculiar orbits of some distant objects.
NASA is launching a spacecraft to study the heliosphere - a bubble which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Artemyev demonstrated their football skills ahead of the FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Children born to parents living in a colony on Mars will be the very definition of the word 'Martian'.
The enigmatic dwarf planet is home to a 'riot of processes' that continue to surprise researchers.
Veteran NASA photographer Bill Ingalls lost one of his cameras in a freak accident earlier this month.
The Virgin Galactic founder is aiming to be a passenger aboard the first commercial launch of SpaceShipTwo.
Researchers in Germany may have found an explanation for the thrust produced by the controversial drive.
The launch of two new satellites in to orbit will enable scientists to study the evolution of our planet's climate.
An asteroid believed to be from another solar system has been found orbiting the Sun in the wrong direction.
NASA's new spacecraft has returned a breathtaking two-second exposure which features over 200,000 stars.
A small solar system object with a strange orbit has hinted at the presence of a large, unknown world.
Decades-old data from the Galileo spacecraft has all-but confirmed the presence of geysers on Jupiter's icy moon.
The space agency is moving forward with its plan to send a helicopter drone to Mars in two years' time.
The new 'Block 5' Falcon 9 was used to successfully place a Bangladeshi satellite in to orbit yesterday.