An asteroid from the earliest days of the solar system has been found four billion kilometers from Earth.
The US space agency has emphasized that its Moon ambitions will not distract from its efforts to reach Mars.
When our star eventually dies, it will go out in a blaze of glory and produce what is known as a planetary nebula.
The spacecraft blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard an Atlas V rocket earlier today.
Scientists have been looking to the past to help them determine the whereabouts of the elusive ninth planet.
For the first time ever, scientists have detected helium in the atmosphere of a planet in orbit around a distant star.
Stephen Hawking's final theory of the cosmos was completed shortly before he passed away in March.
Contrary to our understanding of star formation, large stars don't appear to form the same way as smaller ones.
Researchers have put forward the idea of hollowing out an asteroid and using it to travel between the stars.
The space agencies are working on a series of missions designed to return samples of Martian soil back to Earth.
Astronomers from ESA's Gaia mission will tomorrow release the largest map of our galaxy ever created.
The world-famous telescope has been capturing images of the cosmos for the better part of three decades.
Hydrogen sulfide, which gives rotten eggs their smell, has been discovered in the seventh planet's atmosphere.
According to Goldman Sachs, asteroid mining has the potential to produce the world's first trillionaires.
NASA has revealed that its ambitious Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway will launch as early as 2022.
The space agency will be revealing new details of its 'Kilopower' system at the beginning of next month.
Several parts of NASA's deep-space Orion capsule will be created through the use of 3D printing technology.
A meteorite that crashed in the Nubian Desert has offered a glimpse of our solar system's earliest days.
An asteroid the size of a warehouse passed our planet at the weekend just hours after it was first spotted.
Dennis Muilenburg believes that Boeing will be able to place humans on Mars before Elon Musk's SpaceX.