SPACE

Jade Rabbit left dormant for two weeks to ride out harsh lunar conditions.

Professor Crawford said that international agreement stating no one owns Moon may need overhauling.

Danielle Potter among 36 Brits on list to establish first Mars settlement.

Beautiful pictures of intricate galaxies and nebulae captured by Hubble Space Telescope.

X-ray shows fist-shaped cloud of material ejected from exploded star.

Celestial object ROXs 42Bb spotted 440 light years away.

Nasa telescope spots tiny faint galaxies from 10 billion years ago.

3905 Doppler asteroid found to be eclipsing binary asteroid.

Number of Earth-like planets that could support life vastly underestimated, scientists claim.

Harvard astrophysicist reveals KOI-314c weighs same as Earth but too hot to support terrestrial life.

Astronomers say three-star system could give clues to true nature of gravity.

Alma telescope captures dusty remains of recent supernova for first time.

Climbing robots with sticky lizard feet created to clean spacecrafts.

Quadrantids will be visible on 2 and 3 January in Northern Hemisphere.

Hubble telescope provides first accurate details of climate on GJ 1214b.

Rick Mastracchio and Michael Hopkins float out of International Space Station to replace a pump.

Scientists hope hi-tech sails will reduce amount of space junk in orbit.

Astronomers discover brightest and most distant supernovas to date.

Gaia to create most accurate map of the Milky Way.

The annual Geminid meteor shower was described as 'perfect' and 'phenomenal' this year.

Unmanned mission touches down on lunar surface two weeks after launch.

China's first robotic lunar rover to land on Saturday, with more missions planned in 2017.

London-based firm Inmarsat launches commercial I-5 F1 satellite into space as it expands mobile satellite services.

New planet, called HD 106906 b, is 11 times bigger than Jupiter.

Unmanned craft will release six-wheeled lunar rover onto moon's surface.

China could become first country to achieve soft landing on the moon since 1976.

Latest images boost faint hopes that comet Ison survived close encounter with the sun.