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The president made the surprise announcement while talking live to the International Space Station.

Cassini will be first man-made probe to explore within Saturn's rings before self-destructing.

Check out some of the best photos clicked by Nasa's satellites and International Space Station.

A professor at Isro recently revealed that lunar dust mining programme is a priority for the space agency.

Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and American astronaut Jack Fischer will travel on a 6-hour course to the ISS.

Concerns have increased over the growth in space debris especially from private space explorers.

The 360-degree viewing experience will take you virtually to the launch pad itself.

Nicknamed 'The Rock', the asteroid will fly by at a safe distance of 1.8 million kilometres.

The new crack in Petermann Glacier has raised concerns that part of the ice shelf is splintering off into the ocean.

The space agency may fall short of finances for its Mars Mission.

The set of global maps depicting the Earth at night are the first to be released since 2012.

Plumes of hydrogen spurting through ice could support life on one of Saturn's 53 moons.

The same reactions that support life on Earth at hydrothermal vents might also be present on Enceladus.

Nasa has said return of raw material samples from Moon is a "high scientific priority".

Jeanette Hanna-Ruiz says cybersecurity is a top priority for the space agency.

The Great Cold Spot is as big as the Great Red Spot but has eluded astronomers for decades.

Oceans of water on other planets could support extraterrestrial life.

From the first person in space to the first music video ever recorded on the International Space Station, astronauts keep breaking new records.

The metal atoms in the Red Planet's atmosphere come from a 'constant rain of tiny meteoroids'.

Auroras are well studied on Saturn and Jupiter, but less so on Uranus.

Growing crops on Mars may not be science fiction after all.

The exoplanet, 39 light years away, appears to have an atmosphere rich in water and methane.

As the end of the orbiter's mission approaches, IBTimes shows some of its best photographs.

The aim is to send humans to Mars from the docking station.

Gamma ray burst detected from 12 billion light years away - but no one knows what caused it.

The exoplanet Kepler-150 f orbits a star about 3,000 light years away from Earth.

'The new images look like Van Gogh paintings,' said Juno's principal investigator Scott Bolton.

Argon was lost from Mars' atmosphere in a process called 'sputtering'.

Engineers have worked out how to precisely measure the distance between Earth and a satellite in orbit.

The images to be searched are of the southern sky which is less explored.