Timothy Peake is set to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station.
The Kagra telescope will be fully functional by 2017.
'The water in your body turns into vapour beneath your skin.'
Solar wind gradually stripped away the Red Planet's once-rich upper atmosphere, research reveals.
Nasa to make second major announcement about Mars following liquid water 'discovery'.
Professor Brian Cox discusses possibility of advanced alien civilisation harnessing energy from KIC 8462852.
Time-lapse video shows ultra high-resolution images of sun's surface.
Nasa is calling for applications for its future missions.
Scientists measure force of interaction between antiprotons for the first time.
Social media users in north-western China share images of mystery clouds.
The EmDrive is the invention of British scientist Roger Shawyer.
Sepia signal receiver designed to detect water in outer space.
The Taurid meteor shower, from Comet Encke, will peak from 5 November.
A dashcam in eastern Chonburi province, Thailand, captured a green fireball, believed to be a burning meteor.
The space station has helped conduct more than 1,700 research studies by more than 200 people.
Weird glow from early universe could be another universe mixing with our own, scientists say.
'Giant Pumpkin' Halloween asteroid to be seen in unprecedented levels of detail by Nasa.
Roscosmos announces plans for lunar mission in 2029 with future goal of creating a base on the Moon.
Scientists surprised to find abundant oxygen in the gas cloud surrounding comet 67/P.
Scientists found that Enceladus is likely to possess an ocean containing liquid water.
Astronomers have discovered there has been a supply of newly formed stars in the past 100 million years.
What would happen if Halloween asteroid 2015 TB 145 did hit Earth on 31 October?
Laboratory experiments suggest core of Saturn's moon Enceladus is similar to a primitive meteorite.
Venus, Mars, and Jupiter will come close together in the sky before dawn, in a "planetary dance" which will be admired by stargazers and astronomers worldwide.
Watch livestream of 1,300ft Halloween asteroid make its closest approach to Earth.
The object, named WT1190F, is expected to crash into Earth.
White dwarf WD 1145+017 is destroying a planet.
Animation from Nasa Goddard illustrates what happens when stars enters a black hole.
More than 50,000 new objects in Milky Way recorded in latest image of our galaxy.
ESO's VLT finds massive double star just 12 million km from one another.