Today marks the 20th birthday of one of mankind's greatest achievements - the International Space Station.
NASA has shared an image of a distant galaxy cluster that looks quite a bit like the iconic Star Trek vessel.
One of the space agency's recent 'picture of the day' posts reads 'flying saucer crash lands in Utah Desert'.
After spending years unravelling the mysteries of the dwarf planet Ceres, Dawn has finally run out of fuel.
The ground-breaking space telescope that discovered more than 2,600 exoplanets has finally run out of fuel.
Things are not looking good for the stricken rover which stopped communicating following a dust storm in June.
Another intriguingly geometric iceberg has been spotted in Antarctica during an Operation IceBridge aerial survey.
This strangely geometric piece of ice was photographed by NASA off Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf.
NASA has revealed an unofficial list of new gamma ray constellations based on popular culture icons.
A new report has suggested that searching for evidence of alien life should be part of all future space missions.
NASA has stated that it is still committed to using Russian Soyuz rockets to launch astronauts to the ISS.
A mere two months after beginning operations, NASA's TESS spacecraft has found two new extrasolar worlds.
Astronauts have been working to locate and seal a small leak that has opened up aboard the orbiting outpost.
For the first time in 50 years, an astronaut has voluntarily stepped down in the middle of the training program.
Despite being labelled by NASA as 'potentially hazardous', asteroid 2016 NF23 does not pose a threat.
NASA has posted up an amusing example of pareidolia found in a photograph taken using its HiRISE camera.
NASA is investigating the possibility of sending a probe to Mars that could directly seek out alien life forms.
In a recent Twitter exchange, Leland Melvin described seeing 'something organic/alien-like' in the payload bay.
The nine astronauts will be embarking on the first manned launches from American soil since 2011.
Today marks exactly six decades since the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established.