Following its visit to Pluto back in 2015, the spacecraft has been on its way to Kuiper belt object MU69.
Tapes containing data recorded on the Moon back in the 1970s have helped to solve a long-running mystery.
Scientists have been investigating why words repeatedly spoken out loud sound like they are being sung.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has hinted at having astronauts run around the BFR like in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Astronomers have found a solar system 160 light years away with three planets roughly the size of our own.
This remarkable footage shows a seemingly enormous Moon disappearing rapidly beneath the horizon.
The site of the infamous 1947 UFO incident is being opened up to the public for tours next month.
NASA has announced this week that complex organic matter has been found in an ancient lake bed on Mars.
Scientists have found the fossil footprints of a creature that walked the Earth 541 million years ago.
Scientists have identified a previously unknown species of primate that lived around 400,000 years ago.
A recently released photograph appears to confirm the existence of a secretive Chinese drone project.
French long distance swimmer Ben Lecomte has set off in a bid to become the first person ever to swim the Pacific.
It appears as though the space agency's Curiosity rover has discovered something interesting on Mars.
Motorists in British Columbia were less than impressed when sewage started to rain down on their cars last month.
Scientists have come up with an alternative explanation for the peculiar orbits of some distant objects.
NASA is launching a spacecraft to study the heliosphere - a bubble which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
A man who claims to be from the future is subjected to a lie detector test in a rather dubious new video.
If we ever do make contact with intelligent aliens, would we have any chance of understanding them ?
The unique device acts as a third limb, enabling soldiers to aim and fire heavier weapons during combat.
81-year-old David Harding was 'mortified' to discover what looked like a dead shark in a large test tube.