SpaceX' upcoming BFR or 'Big Falcon Rocket' has been renamed to reflect its lofty interplanetary ambitions.
For thousands of years, termites have been constructing a vast network of mounds in northeastern Brazil.
Today marks the 20th birthday of one of mankind's greatest achievements - the International Space Station.
Astronomers have detected a black hole that is spinning so rapidly that it may be causing space itself to rotate.
The new orbital platform will be China's first permanently manned space station when it launches in 2022.
One of the space agency's recent 'picture of the day' posts reads 'flying saucer crash lands in Utah Desert'.
The ground-breaking space telescope that discovered more than 2,600 exoplanets has finally run out of fuel.
Netherlands-based firm SpaceLife Origin is aiming to make off-world reproduction a reality within six years.
The Chinese city of Chengdu is working on a novel space-age solution to illuminating its streets at night.
A new report has suggested that searching for evidence of alien life should be part of all future space missions.
The previously undiscovered deep space flashes could help scientists solve this ongoing astronomical enigma.
Richard Branson's fledgling space tourism firm could be heading in to space for the first time very soon.
The iconic space telescope has now lost so many of its gyroscopes that it may never fully recover.
The latest robotic lander to touch down on the asteroid Ryugu had only enough power to last around 17 hours.
It turns out that the devastating bombing raids of World War II damaged more than just targets on the ground.
The unusually-shaped space rock made headlines back in 2015 when it passed the Earth on October 31st.
Japan's space agency has revealed the first ever video footage recorded from the surface of a moving asteroid.
The ever-ambitious entrepreneur is aiming to construct a human colony on the Red Planet by as early as 2028.
A mere two months after beginning operations, NASA's TESS spacecraft has found two new extrasolar worlds.
Japan's space agency JAXA has succeeded in landing two tiny hopping robots on the asteroid Ryugu.