SPACE

All key components of the probe have been tested for a launch later in the year.

Swiss pilot Andre Borscheberg took off in the Solar Impulse 2 from China at 2.39am.

Camera data and computer simulations rule out violent impacts.

Miracle material can turn light into movement, scientists discover.

Prolonged time in space led to skin thinning in three mice on International Space Station.

Mars' upper atmosphere more similar to Earth's than previously thought, scientists say.

Astrophysicist says competition would be good way of boosting space travel.

Plans to reform Russia's imploding space industry announced by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

Humanoids prepare for space colony at the Mars Desert Research Station

It was a great, great outcome, says founder Elon Musk.

Mars Express spots collection of craters that could be remnants of supervocanoes.

Chinese media suggests X-37B could be used as a spy satellite or weapon delivery shuttle.

Nasa is challenging designers to create sustainable housing using 3D printing and recyclable materials.

ESA scientists baffled at three large "balancing boulders" on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Light from the 4 quasers has taken 10bn years to reach Earth.

The MOTR was made at a quarter of the price as radars made abroad.

Surveillance probe can monitor each country's emissions and help reduce global levels of carbon dioxide and methane gas

The reason matter won over antimatter and led to the present creation is explained by the fields.

Fears climate change and melting ice could lead to rising seas.

EmDrive inventor Roger Shawyer says he definitely hasn't invented a 'warp drive' faster than the speed of light

Montreal Protocol to curb worldwide use of CFCs paying off.

Kerberos and Styx pictured for the first time as New Horizons prepares for Pluto flyby.

A Dawn co-investigator speculates that the largest spot might be salty crusts left behind after mineral-rich water ice vapourises.

Millions of galaxies thought to be extinct found 'hiding in plain sight'.

A present window of opportunity could allow the probe to pick up power and transmit signals to Rosetta.

Lopsided explosions and a missing neutron star at the core are some of the features of the explosion.

The Planetary Society's LightSail project is set to realize Sagan's vision after 40 years.

Mercury and Earth are the only two planets with a magnetic field.

Ayelet Carasso and Doron Marco say meals can be put together in 30 seconds.