22
Hydrogen sulfide, which gives rotten eggs their smell, has been discovered in the seventh planet's atmosphere.
13
On planets more massive than the Earth, launching things in to space will be a lot more challenging.
15
Known as EarthNow, the project aims to offer live streaming of the entire planet 24 hours a day.
426
Could there have been an advanced civilization on our planet long before mankind appeared on the scene ?
4
A meteorite that crashed in the Nubian Desert has offered a glimpse of our solar system's earliest days.
13
An asteroid the size of a warehouse passed our planet at the weekend just hours after it was first spotted.
0
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is due to lift off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday.
38
Warnings of another end of the world scenario involving the planet Nibiru have been doing the rounds this week.
27
Space tourism startup Orion Span is offering guests the opportunity to spend 12 days orbiting the planet.
2
NASA's flagship rover has now been trundling across the surface of the Red Planet for more than five years.
9
One astronomer was left red-faced this week after he mistook the planet Mars for an undiscovered star.
21
NASA is working with US nuclear authorities to develop a spacecraft that can nuke dangerous space rocks.
0
A renewed hunt for Earth-like worlds has yielded a haul of 95 previously undiscovered extrasolar planets.
3
Scientists have used microlensing to discover planets in a galaxy over 3.8 billion light years away.
0
The dinosaurs' total domination of our planet may have played a major role in their eventual demise.
9
It is looking increasingly likely that the Trappist-1 system's seven worlds could be home to alien life.
4
A lack of carbon monoxide on a methane-rich world could indicate the presence of extraterrestrial life.
6
The next generation telescope will enable us to directly study the atmospheres of extrasolar planets.
9
The disconcertingly-shaped space rock was last seen hurtling past our planet back in October 2015.
10
The space agency has made an important new exoplanet discovery using a Google artificial intelligence.