India puts into orbit navigation satellite IRNSS-1I, a part of its satellite navigation system NavIC in copy-book style.

China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-enters the earth’s atmosphere and burns up over the middle of the South Pacific, the Chinese space authority says.

Stupefied astronomers unveil the first and only known galaxy without dark matter, the invisible and poorly-understood substance thought to make up a quarter of the Universe.

Humanity may need look no further than our own Solar System in the search for alien life, researchers probing one of Saturn's moons say.

NASA has transformed selfies taken by its Mars rover Curiosity into a stunning self-portrait.

If you miss it tonight, you will have to wait for another 35 years to get the chance to see it. On Bangladesh sky, the entire lunar event – also named “super blue blood moon” -- started at 4:49pm and will end at 10:09pm (local time).

At last the Pentagon has acknowledged funding a secret multi-million-dollar programme to investigate sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO).

By 2040, a hundred people will live on the Moon, melting ice for water, 3D-printing homes and tools, eating plants grown in lunar soil, and competing in low-gravity, "flying" sports.

A satellite designed to test various technologies that may help tackle the growing problem of space junk undergoes final pre-flight testing.

Crew at the International Space Station will enjoy views of the August 21 solar eclipse during three successive orbits, reports CBS News.

Scientists deal a blow to the quest for organisms inhabiting worlds besides Earth, saying our planet was unusual in its ability to host liquid water -- the key ingredient for life.

Bangladesh’s first nano-satellite, made by students of privately-run Brac University, has begun orbiting the Earth. It will pick high quality photographs of land to analyse vegetation, urbanisation, flood, water resources, forestry and other natural resources from overhead for research purposes.

Nasa has recorded 510mm (20 inches) rainfall in southeastern Bangladesh between June 12 and 14 when landslides triggered by heavy downpour killed at least 150 people in five hilly districts so far.

Two US astronauts overcome an early equipment glitch to complete an abbreviated spacewalk outside the International Space Station, accomplishing all the major tasks initially planned for a longer excursion in four hours, NASA says.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft sends the closest-ever images of Saturn after surviving its first plunge inside the planet's rings, the US space agency says.

The embryonic cells of the mango brought back by manned spacecraft Shenzhou XI last November after the 33-day space mission have now grown new tissues at a lab in South China's Hainan province.

India's first lunar probe - Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft - which was considered lost is still orbiting the moon, NASA scientists have discovered. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, almost a year after it was launched on October 22, 2008.

Researchers announce the stunning discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in our galaxy, opening up the most promising hunting ground so far for life beyond the Solar System.

A NASA spacecraft has detected carbon-based materials, similar to what may have been the building blocks for life on Earth, on the Texas-sized dwarf planet Ceres that orbits between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt, scientists says.

GOES-16, the first spacecraft in NOAA’s next-generation of geostationary satellites, sends the first high-resolution images from its Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument, according to a report published in the website of NASA.