A fast food firm has become the first to send a sample of their cuisine in to orbit using a balloon.
Beachgoers were left perplexed this week after an astronaut was spotted strolling across the seafront.
Astronomers have identified the first signs of life-bearing chemistry at the center of the galaxy.
Rosetta's companion spacecraft has made history today by touching down on the surface of a comet.
The satellite has arrived in orbit around the Red Planet after a 10-month voyage across the solar system.
A skintight lightweight spacesuit designed at MIT could one day be used by astronauts going to Mars.
The space agency has used new simulations to determine how best to identify a life-bearing world.
A small space rock left a sizeable crater near Managua's international airport on Saturday night.
Stephen Hawking has suggested that the Higgs particle has the potential to collapse space and time.
New self-guided robots could soon be used to help assess the threat posed by items of space debris.
Russia's space agency Roscosmos is seeking $440 million to develop inflatable space habitats.
Astronauts have been left perplexed after traces of sea plankton were found on the station's exterior.
NASA's Stardust spacecraft is now believed to have picked up particles from outside the solar system
A huge fast-moving space rock has the potential to bring about the apocalypse in the year 2880.
The New Horizons spacecraft has managed to capture the orbit of Pluto's largest moon like never before.
The space agency has released new video footage from its LDSD test flight back at the end of June.
Dr Sara Seager believes that astronomers are standing on a 'great threshold' of space exploration.
The European spacecraft has finally reached its destination after traveling over 6 billion kilometers.
A satellite carrying live geckos as part of a science experiment is in danger of crashing back to Earth.
The space agency is accepting proposals for science instruments for future use on Jupiter's icy moon.