China has deployed an unidentified payload in orbit around the Earth using its secretive Shenlong space plane.
The two outer planets in our solar system remain the least understood owing to their distance and the lack of exploratory missions.
NASA's Perseverance rover has identified some of the most tantalizing clues to date of life in the Red Planet's distant past.
Something strange had been sighted in the skies over the country just prior to the pilot ejecting from the plane.
The impressive new plane underwent a highly successful 81-minute test flight on Friday, while reaching a top speed of Mach 1.1.
It has been over 22 years since the ill-fated Beagle Mars lander set down on the surface of the Red Planet.
The iconic Mars spacecraft has ended its mission after more than 11 years in orbit around the Red Planet.
A space rock the size of a basketball court is due to make its closest approach of our planet later on this evening.
An ambitious new mission to the red Planet could demonstrate, for the first time, nuclear electric propulsion in action.
The discovery points to the building blocks of life being preserved on the Red Planet for billions of years.
A large asteroid is set to make history when it passes within 20,000 miles of our planet before the decade is out.
A space plane once hoped to be a successor to NASA's space shuttles may ultimately never make it to orbit.
This unfathomable scenario would be, as you might expect, absolutely devastating for all life on our planet.
Divers accompanied by a TV crew had been scouring parts of the infamous region for a World War II plane wreckage.
This distant world, known as L98-59d, offers a literal interpretation of the phrase 'the floor is lava'.
The discovery of a distant solar system with its planets in a seemingly impossible order has been revealed this week.
Scientists have found evidence of a subterranean labyrinth of tunnels hidden beneath the planet's surface.
Astronomers have detected an enigmatic free floating planet approximately 10,000 light-years from Earth.
The mysterious extrasolar world was spotted with the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
New evidence suggests that the Red Planet is capable of producing lightning - something never seen there before.