William Shatner is one of thousands of people whose names will soon be sent to the Sun on a memory card.
New laboratory experiments have added support to the idea that microbes could be living on Saturn's icy moon.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe has captured a stunning new image of the Earth against the blackness of space.
NASA's New Horizons probe has made history again by capturing images 3.79 billion miles from the Earth.
The DNA of microbes found on the International Space Station has been sequenced in space for the first time.
The disconcertingly-shaped space rock was last seen hurtling past our planet back in October 2015.
Discovered in Western Australia, the fossil microbes are the oldest evidence of life ever identified.
NASA has activated the iconic interstellar probe's backup thrusters for the first time in 37 years.
Back in October, aviation authorities investigated an unidentified aircraft flying over the West Coast.
The unexplained cloud of Ruthenium-106 particles was detected over Europe in September and October.
Astronomers have revealed that they will be sharing a major new discovery with the world on October 16.
Nobel Prize winner Rainer Weiss and his colleagues have hinted at an upcoming 'exciting announcement'.
The winning trio were responsible for the first ever confirmed detection of gravitational waves.
Known as Bloodhound, the supersonic racing car will attempt to break the land-speed record in October.
The launch of the giant orbital telescope has been pushed back from October 2018 to Spring 2019.
The man behind this month's doomsday prophecy has pushed the apocalypse back another few weeks.
NASA's Juno probe has sent back four breathtaking new images of the gas giant's swirling atmosphere.
The atmospheric conditions on Venus are so hostile that NASA's next probe may use a mechanical computer.
The microorganism was discovered in the lakes of the Rauer Islands off the coast of Antarctica.
The next target of NASA's New Horizons probe is a space rock with some rather intriguing properties.