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Companies win lucrative contracts to provide NASA with space transport system

Nasa scientists simulate distant planets' atmospheres to find environments best suited to alien life.

Airware is designing a Linux-based OS and air traffic controls with NASA for flying helicopter drones

Nasa research will help identify signs of life on other planets.

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is living at the bottom of the ocean to prepare for future space quests.

Scientists have dismissed any links between Nicaragua's blast and the passing asteroid.

The International Space Station could become a working "machine shop" in space

Google's initiative will create quantum processors to develop artificial intelligence technologies.

Telescope gathers data before and after collision of asteroids around a star which could signal formation of planets.

Defence giant will monitor space debris to better protect satellites and avoid space collisions.

Cosmonauts claim to have found microscopic organisms on the exterior of the International Space Station.

Nasa is working on 'swarms' of robots that can work together like an ant colony.

In images captured by the NuSTAR telescope the light from the X-ray source near the black hole seems to blur and stretch.

Using a robotic unit attached to the Palomar telescope, astronomers have developed an efficient system that can scan the sky quicker than before.

NASA-backed study finds sleep deprivation and sleeping pill habits are 'pervasive among astronauts'.

Google has added beautiful Nasa photos of the Moon and Mars to Google Earth. Here's how to use it

Researchers reveal that not all supernovas destroy the stars within them

Long ridiculed scientist Roger Shawyer has been vindicated by new Nasa tests of his EmDrive technology.

British scientist Roger Shawyer tests his highly controversial space propulsion technology called EmDrive.

Nasa astronauts test Google Glass at underwater facility to assist with space missions

Nasa has approved a study that claims to produce thrust using microwaves, something which has major implications for space flight.

Nasa wants MakerBot 3D-printer users to design models for potential bases on Mars

Dr Cameron Smith believes a huge group will be required to set up human colonies on other planets.

21 July marks the day Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon

History will remember Armstrong and Aldrin, but who was Michael Collins, Apollo 11's third man?

NASA has released pictures, which will help common people spot the Apollo landing sites using a binocular.

Sunday 13 July will be the first of three 'supermoon' nights, in which the moon will appear bigger and brighter than usual. This is caused by the moon's elliptical orbit.

Nasa will be using the Project Tango smartphones on a satellite project called 'Spheres' that the US space research agency developed and launched in 2006.

Nasa's Sofia 'Flying Observatory' will enable astronomers to record infrared images of celestial bodies.

Two monster asteroids, named Ceres and Vesta, to have a close encounter in outer space.