A miniature submarine could one day be used to explore the depths of Europa's mysterious ocean.
NASA's aged Opportunity rover is still proving its value after making a new discovery about early water.
Russian scientists have proposed a novel new way to protect the Earth from deadly asteroid collisions.
NASA's twin GRAIL probes have helped to solve why the Moon's gravity appears to be uneven.
New data from the Curiosity rover has revealed the threat posed by radiation to future astronauts.
Samples of Moon dust gathered by Neil Armstrong have turned up after being lost for 40 years.
The starships of the Star Trek universe seem a long way off both technologically and financially.
A chunk of rock nine times the size of the QE2 ocean liner will pass within 3.6 million miles this month.
NASA's highly successful planet hunting orbital telescope has suffered a serious equipment failure.
Opportunity has broken the record for the furthest distance driven by a NASA vehicle on another world.
With 800,000 Twitter followers astronaut Chris Hadfield managed to capture the world's imagination.
Despite there being no way get home again, thousands have rushed to sign themselves up to Mars One.
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope narrowly avoids destruction in an orbital near-miss.
A huge storm at Saturn's north pole is 20 times larger and 4 times as powerful as storms on Earth.
SpaceShipTwo will be conducting its first rocket-powered test flight tomorrow says Richard Branson.
Thousands of Argentinians reported witnessing the dazzling light display as the meteor exploded overhead.
Top experts from across the globe are meeting to discuss ways to curb the amount of debris in orbit.
A variety of live animals have been launched in to space by Russia as part of a new one-month mission.
NASA's Kepler mission has found several new potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars.
Mars One has announced the imminent availability of placements on its ambitious one-way mission to Mars.