SpaceX is poised to launch a Falcon 9 rocket, marking its first return to flight since a costly and complicated launchpad explosion in September.

The observatory will focus on primordial gravitational waves.

Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity finds evidence of ancient lakes and wet underground environments on the Red Planet that changed billions of years ago.

China launches a new-generation weather satellite that can improve weather forecasting as well as help study lightning and air pollutants, including PM2.5.

A rocky planet discovered in the "habitable" zone of the star nearest our Sun may be covered with oceans, according to a new study.

India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle has launched three satellites each from India and Algeria, and one each from Canada and the United States, from one rocket into two different orbits.

UK astronaut Tim Peake is back on Earth after a historic six-month stay on the International Space Station.

The Earth gets a small companion. NASA scientists discover a small asteroid in an orbit around the Sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth and it will remain so for centuries to come.

NASA successfully inflated a new experimental room at the International Space Station on Saturday, producing the world's first pump-it-up compartment for astronauts.

Solar Impulse has landed in the US state of Ohio following the 12th stage of its circumnavigation of the globe.

Scientists suggest that at least two huge tsunamis once swept across the Red Planet, triggered by large impacts.

Curiosity is a rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. Let’s take a closer look into the Martian land, more specifically its dunes.

SpaceX plans to send an unmanned Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018, a first step in achieving founder Elon Musk’s goal to fly people to another planet.

A European Space Agency effort to try to detect gravitational waves in space is not only technically feasible but compelling, a new report finds.

In one of the most arid regions in the world a series of carefully constructed, spiralling holes form lines across the landscape. Known as puquios, their origin has been a puzzle – one that could only be solved from space.

Stephen Hawking is backing a project to send tiny spacecraft to another star system within a generation which is to travel trillions of miles; far further than any previous craft.

Scientists thought that they finally came to know the reasons behind the movement of North Pole.It's not terribly unusual for the rotational pole of a planet to shift, especially since the earth is not perfectly spherical. It tends to wobble a little as it spins on its axis, reports Business Insiders.

Astrophysicists outline what Planet Nine might be like - if indeed it exists.

Dozens of space scientists are desperately scouring the skies after losing track of a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar Japanese satellite that was sent to study black holes.

Europe and Russia are about to launch a joint mission to the Red Planet.