SPACE

At a million km closer to the sun than Mercury, the loner comet's fate as it goes around the sun is unsure.

Phlegra Montes range in northern hemisphere shows features indicative of past glacial activity.

New York professor says dark matter interactions could be responsible for mass extinctions.

Star came within 0.8 light years of Earth passing through the Oort cloud, scientists say.

Scientists unable to find brown dwarf that should be orbiting pair of stars V471 Tauri.

Scientists baffled by gigantic cloud which twice appeared over Mars for long periods in 2012

The computer code used to generate the clear, multiple images in the film throw light into the visuals near a black hole.

The stage is now set for ATV's successor which will play an important role in future space flights.

The 25-year-old snap taken by Voyager 1 showed the Earth as a pale blue dot in the vastness of space.

Sending out a message instead of waiting for one may not be a wise thing to do and requires discussions, say critics.

With the same size as Jupiter, but six times the mass, Kepler-432b moves close to its star in an elongated orbit.

Time-lapse video shows five years of images taken by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

The first stars were born 550 million years after the Big Bang says the high precision data.

Multiple-star system early on in its formation 800-light years from Earth.

Physicists put forward theory that universe has no beginning and no end.

Astronomers hope to connect with potentially inhabitable planets.

Using seismic waves, a distinct region within the inner core has been detected.

Precise measurements of gas and star rotation have shown dark matter around solar system and other areas.

European Space Agency's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) to test automated re-entry systems.

Archaeologists believe the object is man-made.

DARPA's Airborne Launch Assist Space Access program to provide simple, low-cost satellite launch.

In a birthday tribute to Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh, researchers release photos taken by LORRI.

The study relied on the Titius-Bode law that gives a mathematical progression to predict planets around stars.

The US government has taken a tentative step towards allowing commercial development of the moon.

Federal Aviation Administration apparently says companies can now 'stake claim' to lunar territory.

Image shows a star shedding outer layers 3,000 light years away and offers glimpse of how our sun will die.

Nasa requests $30m for preliminary studies into mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.

Richard Corfield looks at current plans to make money from the moon's resources.

Astrophysicists are not sure what caused the gas to be ejected so early in galaxy formation.