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The Bok globule is a small cloud that gives birth to stars, and is most distant of its kind to have been discovered.

The Nasa Eagleworks paper says EmDrive works because of the pilot-wave theory, generating 1.2mN/kW of thrust.

Whitson sets another milestone by becoming first woman to have twice taken command of the ISS.

Extremely spherical star discovered slowly rotating 5,000 light years from Earth.

The slushy ice-water ocean may have caused the dwarf planet to spin into a new alignment.

The XB-1, co-produced with Boom Technology, is due to fly at a speed of Mach2.2 in test flights next year.

Tim Peake's new photo book takes readers on a mesmerising tour of the Earth as seen from on high.

This Martian home would protect the first humans on the Red Planet from deadly cold and radiation.

November's supermoon is worth watching – it will be the biggest supermoon in seven decades.

The first Nasa astronaut to vote from space was David Wolf in 1997.

US and Chinese governments are already testing out their own EmDrive devices on spacecraft, sources say.

An early draft of Nasa Eagleworks' peer-reviewed paper on the EmDrive has been leaked onto the internet.

The odd-looking lump has been named Egg Rock and is made of iron and nickel.

In 2016, three supermoons occur in row between October and December.

Operation IceBridge airborne laboratory allows scientists to study the effects of climate change on sea ice, glaciers, and ice sheets.

How Nasa's Scout and Sentry systems are watching the night sky for potentially deadly asteroids.

US space agency releases safety message confirming the dangers posed by lithium ion batteries.

The probe hit Mars at more than 180 miles per hour and may have exploded.

A camera on Cassini spacecraft revealed a change in colour on the northern polar region of the planet which occurred in four years.

The influx of warm ocean water beneath ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea has accelerated the loss of ice.

Images captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft suggest new craters form quickly.

The US military's X-37B space craft continues to confuse us all with its top-secret mission.

The outgoing president has vowed to work closer with private companies to get humans to Mars – and back – safely.

Exposure to cosmic rays during deep space travel may damage the brains of astronauts.

Space agency set to unveil findings from images of Jupiter's moon taken by Hubble Space Telescope.

International collaboration is central to the future of human space exploration – that and imagination.

Nasa wants Aurora Flight Sciences to create a demonstrator model for the super-efficient twin-hull aircraft.

Ice cover on 10 September was just 4.14 million sq/km – the same amount recorded in 2007.

After 20 years of research, Boeing and Nasa are getting closer and want to use the approach for X-Planes.

A new 360-degree video captures how Nasa astronauts are trained to be weightless before going into space.