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The tall ship sized object was spotted through Nasa's Helioviewer.

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

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

Archaeologists believe the object is man-made.

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

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

SMAP will measure the 2in deep soil which holds less than 1% of Earth's water

Quantum computing firm D-Wave raises C$29m in quest to bring about technological revolution.

900m-wide asteroid 2004 BL86 missed earth by 'only' 750,000 miles last night

University of Colorado Boulder researchers are developing the orbiting Aragoscope for Nasa.

The US space programme should save more than $12m (£7.95m) a seat flying astronauts to and from the International Space Station on commercial space taxis rather than aboard Russian capsules, the NASA programme manager said on Monday (January 26).

The probe has travelled three billion miles, and will begin sending back images of dwarf planet on Sunday.

Nasa and Microsoft developing OnSight - software that lets scientists work remotely using Curiosity Rover.

UFO enthusiast posts 130,000 pages of government's UFO records online

Dawn currently speeding at around 725 kph for its scheduled capture into Ceres orbit in March.

All 15 years from 2000 were in top 20 warmest. The odds of that are 1.5 million billion to one.

The measurement from a mountaintop is the first time Earth-bound sites have been used to measure emissions in the air.

Check out photos of alleged UFO near international space station

New Horizons probe awakes to complete its mission to explore the former planet.

Asteroid 2004 BL86 will pass Earth by a range of 745,000 miles on 26 January.

SpaceX mission deemed a success despite failure of launcher to land on floating touchpad

Nasa has released a series of posters advertising vacations in the outer world.

'Close, but no cigar': SpaceX director Elon Musk on failed attempt to land launcher on a floating platform.

Nissan enters five-year partnership with Nasa to share self-driving technology and help develop autonomous Mars rover

Live streaming of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch attempt on Saturday will be available online.

Launch of Falcon 9 rocket carrying cargo capsule to ISS put off due to snag.

Countdown aborts moments before launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 reusable rocket carrying ISS supplies

The Langley Research Center is exploring inflatable heat shields to safely land spacecraft on Mars.

Falcon 9's rocket will attempt to land on what SpaceX calls an 'autonomous spaceport drone ship'.

A tracksuit designed to look like moonwalker Neil Armstrong's space suit