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James Powell has filed a patent outlining how his theoretical StarTram system could work.

A body is only granted planet status if it meets a three-point criteria

She had to undergo spaceflight training before a successful mission in 1963.

Astronomer Stephen Kane analyses a potentially habitable planet just 14 light years away.

Astronomers say asteroid 2017 AG13 had similar destructive potential as Chelyabinsk strike in 2013.

The savoury treat's space odyssey was recorded on camera.

He was the third US astronaut in space and the first to orbit the Earth.

A nearby star is showing what will happen when our Sun blows up at the end of its life cycle.

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

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

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

If humans could see radiowaves then this is what the night sky would look like.

A display of shooting stars will be visible tonight for the second evening in a row.

Terzan 5 is a cluster of stars displaying unusual properties, never seen before by astornomers

The element carbon is essential to the formation of life as we know it.

The object, which lies 12,000 light years from Earth, has perplexed astronomers for years

If the mission is successful, China will become the second country to land a rover on planet after the US.

SpaceShipTwo is now able to take passengers paying $200,000 a ticket into space.

The image shows the sunlit part of the planet and three of its four moons.

RoboGlove contains components designed to mimic the human hand and will be used in medical rehabilitation.

Tim Peake, Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko return to Earth safely from the ISS.

British astronaut Tim Peake will land back on Earth in just a week, after six months aboard the ISS.

Director also reveals why she chose Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence to narrate the stunning film.

The findings by the Kepler telescope are Nasa's biggest new planet haul to date.

The rocket - carrying technology developed by Nasa - successfully reached near-space.

The telescope's infrared camera allows scientists to peer into the heart of our Milky Way

Minister Tobias Ellwood said Vladimir Putin told him Peake would not be left on the ISS.

The US Strategic Command said it does not believe it was a man-made object.

The Sentinel-1B joins its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, in orbit to deliver information for various services.

How does a weightless man run on the spot while hurtling through space at 17,150mph?