NASA's flagship rover has now been trundling across the surface of the Red Planet for more than five years.
One astronomer was left red-faced this week after he mistook the planet Mars for an undiscovered star.
Bars worth up to $368 million rained down after the aircraft suffered damage during takeoff on Thursday.
A renewed hunt for Earth-like worlds has yielded a haul of 95 previously undiscovered extrasolar planets.
New footage has emerged showing a large chunk of ice narrowly missing pedestrians on a London street.
Scientists have used microlensing to discover planets in a galaxy over 3.8 billion light years away.
The dinosaurs' total domination of our planet may have played a major role in their eventual demise.
It is looking increasingly likely that the Trappist-1 system's seven worlds could be home to alien life.
A lack of carbon monoxide on a methane-rich world could indicate the presence of extraterrestrial life.
The next generation telescope will enable us to directly study the atmospheres of extrasolar planets.
A US-based exploration firm is set to begin hunting for the whereabouts of the missing plane's wreckage.
The disconcertingly-shaped space rock was last seen hurtling past our planet back in October 2015.
Stratolaunch's new aircraft is so enormous that its wingspan could contain an entire football field.
The space agency has made an important new exoplanet discovery using a Google artificial intelligence.
The space agency will be making an announcement on Thursday about its latest groundbreaking discovery.
Our planet is making a continuous low humming sound and nobody is quite sure what is causing it.
Scientists believe that interstellar dust streams might be able to transfer organisms between planets.
Situated just 11 light years away, Ross 128 b is shaping up to be a promising place to look for life.
Sierra Nevada has announced that its Dream Chaser spaceplane has completed a critical free-flight test.
Thousands of scientists from 184 countries have issued a stark warning about the future of our planet.