The Japanese Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has detonated an explosive charge on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu.
The space agency is hoping to launch its first manned mission to the Red Planet within the next 14 years.
India has blown up one of its own satellites, producing space debris that could end up colliding with the ISS.
Scientists at NASA have revealed that there is a lot more to this unassuming space rock than meets the eye.
US defense bosses have requested $304 million to fund the research and development of orbital weapons.
A new theory suggests that aliens could fire lasers at black holes to help propel their ships through space.
The unmanned test flight brings NASA one step closer to being able to launch its own crewed missions again.
Israel is set to join China, Russia and the US as the fourth nation to achieve a controlled lunar landing.
A new study has revealed that our planet's atmosphere extends further in to space than was previously believed.
A spacecraft has successfully demonstrated how a harpoon can be used to clean up Earth's orbit.
NASA is planning to launch a new near-infrared space observatory that will collect data on 300 million galaxies.
The space agency is currently seeking partners to develop reusable lunar landing vehicles.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has captured detailed images of the potentially hazardous asteroid.
Scientists have developed a prototype for a steam-powered spacecraft that can refuel itself with water.
A firm in Russia is working to create the world's first space billboard using a constellation of small satellites.
In a world first, seeds carried to the Moon aboard China's Chang'e 4 spacecraft have actually started to sprout.
Astronomers have picked up a very unusual repeating signal from a distant galaxy and nobody knows what it is.
The Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the brightest quasar ever detected in the early universe.
China's Chang'e 4 spacecraft has made history by being the first ever to touch down on the far side of the Moon.
NASA's long-lived space probe has managed to pull off the most distant flyby of an object ever undertaken.