The successful test saw the enormous booster put out a staggering 3.6 million pounds of thrust.
NASA has revealed that another mysterious bright spot has been discovered on the dwarf planet's surface.
The space agency has secured enough funding to develop a mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon.
A helicopter drone could help a rover on Mars to scout the terrain ahead and locate places of interest.
Scientists are experimenting with new ways to explore volcanic fissures and vents on other planets.
The long-running NASA spacecraft will soon become the first ever to visit this distant, icy world.
NASA's explorary orbiter is due to go in to orbit around the enigmatic dwarf planet in March 2015.
Omaha resident David Pares has built what he believes to be the world’s first low-power warp drive motor.
A future manned mission to Venus could see astronauts piloting blimps around the planet's atmosphere.
NASA's Kepler space telescope has made its first discovery since being crippled by a technical fault.
NASA's exploratory rover has discovered mysterious 'belches' of methane gas on the surface of Mars.
NASA is trying to determine the origins of a strange circular feature in the Athabasca region of Mars.
NASA's successor to the space shuttles landed safely earlier today after embarking on its maiden voyage.
An ex-NASA employee has insisted that humans walked on the surface of Mars more than 35 years ago.
NASA's successor to the space shuttles will be undertaking its first test flight in December.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured images of sunlight glinting on Titan's hydrocarbon oceans.
A US rocket bound for the International Space Station has exploded just seconds after launching.
The secretive aircraft will be landing in California after being on a mission that lasted two years.
The satellite has arrived in orbit around the Red Planet after a 10-month voyage across the solar system.
NASA's Curiosity rover has finally arrived at its primary destination after more than two years on Mars.