New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern has referred to the planet as a 'scientific wonderland'.
An ambitious new plan could see carbon dioxide being sucked out of the atmosphere and turned in to fuel.
New images from the New Horizons probe have revealed another vast region of mountains on Pluto's surface.
Amateur ghost hunters have captured an image of what looks like a shadowy woman's face in Torquay Museum.
Three polite robots have taken the first tentative steps towards exhibiting a sense of self-awareness.
The first ever high resolution images of the surface of Pluto have been unveiled at a press conference.
A video showing a strange shadowy figure moving along a corridor has been uploaded on to the Internet.
Director General Johann-Dietrich Woerner has outlined his plans for the future of space exploration.
NASA has confirmed today that the New Horizons probe has successfully made its closest approach to Pluto.
Scientists have calculated that much of the planet could soon be plunged in to a decade-long cold spell.
A secretive set of photographs has emerged showing two unidentified objects near a US Navy submarine.
Scientists have discovered that a person's biological age and chronological age can be vastly different.
Scientists in Japan have developed a new type of hologram that can be both observed and touched.
Scientists have developed a prototype of a strange new boomerang-shaped aircraft for use on Mars.
A family has fled their new home after receiving chilling messages from someone called 'The Watcher'.
Health authorities have revealed that synthetic blood could soon be transfused in to human test subjects.
Scientists have predicted that a cataclysmic series of events could occur within the next 30 years.
New aerial footage has been released showing an intricate pattern of circles in a field in Russia.
The map studied by Columbus before his trans-Atlantic voyage has been cleaned up using computer software.
Palaeontologists have been quick to point out the flaws in this summer's follow-up to Jurassic Park.