NASA

Tethers Unlimited is developing SpiderFab, an in-space manufacturing system to create large objects in orbit.

Mary-Ann Russon Apr 07, 2015

Could it be that alien life forms are trying to contact Earth?

Arjun Varma Apr 02, 2015

Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory conducted spin tests on the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD).

Adam Justice Apr 01, 2015

Mercury's dark surface explained by carbon dusting that has covered the planet's surface.

Hannah Osborne Mar 30, 2015

A Mars One finalist says preference is given to candidates who donate the most money, rather than astronauts

Mary-Ann Russon Mar 24, 2015

Did life on Earth really originate on Mars?

Arjun Varma Mar 22, 2015

European Space Agency begins testing a probe designed to explore the Sun in 2020.

Yasmin Kaye Mar 14, 2015

New maps show how Mars's water reservoirs might have looked billions of years ago.

Hannah Osborne Mar 05, 2015

MIT is designing a device for Nasa that will turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.

Sean Martin Mar 04, 2015

The Curiosity rover has scratched beneath the surface to discover that Mars isn't red.

Sean Martin Mar 03, 2015

Cosmic dust found in galaxy that formed just 700 million years after Big Bang.

Hannah Osborne Mar 02, 2015

The 20,000 tonnes of Saharan dust enriches plant growth in the Amazon.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 25, 2015

At a million km closer to the sun than Mercury, the loner comet's fate as it goes around the sun is unsure.

Jayalakshmi K Feb 25, 2015

It is a massive increase on the 1 foot that it rose in the previous century

Sean Martin Feb 18, 2015

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

Kabita Maharana Feb 14, 2015

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

Jayalakshmi K Feb 14, 2015

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

Alfred Joyner Feb 12, 2015

Archaeologists believe the object is man-made.

Arjun Varma Feb 08, 2015

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

Mary-Ann Russon Feb 05, 2015

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

David Sim Feb 03, 2015

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

Dominic Gover Feb 01, 2015

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

Anthony Cuthbertson Jan 30, 2015

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

Mark Piggott Jan 27, 2015

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

Mary-Ann Russon Jan 27, 2015

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).

Adam Justice Jan 27, 2015

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

Tom Porter Jan 25, 2015

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

Mary-Ann Russon Jan 22, 2015

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

Arjun Varma Jan 21, 2015

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

Jayalakshmi K Jan 20, 2015

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

David Sim Jan 19, 2015