Captain Kirk himself - William Shatner - has confirmed that he will be venturing to the edge of space next week.
For the second year running, this traditional celebration of science's most peculiar projects took place online.
The space probe, which landed in 2018, has revealed some surprising findings about the planet's interior.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has broken two of its own records and it still has a long way to go yet.
A NASA report published in 2018 takes the idea of finding alien 'technosignatures' very seriously indeed.
Recent experiments involving muons have blown open a hole in our current understanding of the universe.
Scientists have discovered three strains of bacteria on the orbiting outpost that have never been seen before.
Space probes sent by China and the United Arab Emirates have both entered into orbit around Mars.
Entrepreneur Robert Bigelow is offering a $1M prize pot for the most compelling evidence of an afterlife.
South Africa's national lottery has come under scrutiny after a perfect progression of numbers was drawn.
The space agency has been able to 'talk' to the distant probe thanks to a Deep Space Network dish upgrade.
The space probe has successfully pulled off an ambitious landing maneuver on an asteroid 200 million miles away.
Some of this year's most bizarre science projects were recognized at an online ceremony this week.
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley have safely returned home after two months in space.
Scientists have successfully revived microbes found in sediment samples that are over 100 million years old.
A microbe with an appetite for meteorites has shown that space rocks may be able to carry life across the cosmos.
The groundbreaking solar probe has sent back its first observations from the edge of the Sun's atmosphere.
A space probe designed to venture into the interstellar void could launch within as little as ten years.
A terrifying encounter with an unidentified flying object left one forestry worker shaken and covered in bruises.
One scientist has proposed a possible new explanation for why we have yet to encounter intelligent alien life.