China's burgeoning space program is set to attempt something that nobody has ever tried before.
The X-37B will be launching again on Wednesday however nobody knows exactly what it will be doing.
The soprano had been set to become the first professional singer in space later on this year.
The events of the hit movie could become a reality thanks to the large amounts of junk in Earth's orbit.
A NASA balloon experiment has picked up sounds that wouldn't seem out of place in an X-Files episode.
The approaching spacecraft has snapped photographs of what appears to be polar ice on the dwarf planet.
After more than a decade in space NASA's Messenger spacecraft has ended its mission with a bang.
Two amateur astronomers have succeeded in placing a model fighter in to orbit using a weather balloon.
The space agency has reportedly produced a Star Trek style 'warp field' inside an experimental engine.
The space agency has formed a new coalition of scientists from a wide range of different fields.
Scientists have identified a huge void in space that measures over 1.8 billion light years across.
Samantha Cristoforetti did her best Captain Janeway impression for an epic orbital selfie this week.
Scientists have been investigating human hibernation as a way to enable long-haul space trips.
SETI director Seth Shostak believes that we should broadcast the entire Internet in to the cosmos.
NASA has revealed a partnership with the firm behind a new super-fast deep space engine.
First picked up in 2001, these so-called 'fast radio bursts' are continuing to perplex scientists.
Could an alien civilization build a large spherical energy-harvesting structure around a distant star ?
A robot named Kirobo kept the astronauts company during its 18-month stay aboard the space station.
The aerospace giant has been granted a patent for a way to shield against explosion shockwaves.
Scientists believe that the two mystery bright spots on Ceres could be water spewing in to space.