The man who envisaged that an alien race could build a 'Dyson Sphere' around its star has died aged 96.
A recently uploaded video clip shows a featureless spherical object hovering motionless in the sky.
The groundbreaking solar probe has sent back its first observations from the edge of the Sun's atmosphere.
Scientists have discovered new evidence of a temporary moon burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Astronomers have found a planet with an atmosphere in a region that was thought to be hostile to such worlds.
Russia has seen more than its fair share of space rocks exploding in the Earth's atmosphere in recent months.
The blast, which occurred in December over the Bering Sea, went largely unnoticed due to its remote location.
Scientists at JPL have been working to simulate the atmospheric conditions found on 'hot Jupiter' planets.
A new study has revealed that our planet's atmosphere extends further in to space than was previously believed.
NASA is planning to launch a new near-infrared space observatory that will collect data on 300 million galaxies.
A Russian satellite has picked up mysterious 'explosions of light' in our planet's upper atmosphere.
A lunar eclipse with a rather unusual name will be visible in the Western Hemisphere on January 20th.
The two world powers have reportedly been working together on a series of controversial experiments.
NASA has confirmed that the probe has become the second spacecraft ever to leave the heliosphere.
After a harrowing descent through the Martian atmosphere, the probe has finally reached its destination.
The space agency's InSight lander will be descending 80 miles through the Martian atmosphere on Monday.
The extrasolar planet known as Kelt-9b is so hot that its atmosphere contains vaporized iron and titanium.
NASA is launching a spacecraft to study the heliosphere - a bubble which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
For the first time ever, scientists have detected helium in the atmosphere of a planet in orbit around a distant star.
Hydrogen sulfide, which gives rotten eggs their smell, has been discovered in the seventh planet's atmosphere.