NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) begins its visit to the red planet 10 years ago this week.Since then, the MRO completes about 45,000 trips around Mars, taking more than 200,000 images of it and other objects in the vicinity, according to NASA.

The formal test programme has begun on the technologies required to detect gravitational waves in space.

Ring-shaped, five-dimensional black holes could break Einstein's theory of general relativity, but there's a catch-it doesn't exists.

NASA just released incredible new photos of Pluto’s north pole, and they seem to raise more questions about this icy planet.

An Australian telescope used to broadcast live vision of man's first steps on the moon in 1969 finds hundreds of new galaxies hidden behind the Milky Way by using an innovative receiver that measures radio waves.

A huge meteor explodes in the atmosphere over the South Atlantic Ocean near Brazil without causing damage to lives and properties.

If you have ever struggled getting hold of a spare part for an appliance, consider the astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), where deliveries are not exactly regular, and postage is rather extortionate.

Images from NASA’s New Horizons mission suggest that Pluto’s moon Charon once had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen and expanded, pushing outward and causing the moon’s surface to stretch and fracture on a massive scale, according to NASA.

For the first time, scientists have detected tiny, rhythmic distortions in space and time- gravitational waves- predicted by Einstein 100 years ago.

A new map of the dwarf planet revealed that water ice is surprisingly abundant on Pluto's surface.

The colossal impact that created the moon may have spawned the cosmic mashup between the rocks that ultimately became Earth and its lunar neighbor, Space.com reports quoting researchers.

Astronomers discover the largest known solar system consisting of a large planet that takes nearly a million years to orbit its star.

The explanation for the unusual look involves some interesting behavior from the nitrogen-heavy ice.

Scientists in the US make detailed 3D maps of the cavities carved by comet dust in blocks of foam carried by Nasa's Stardust spacecraft.

The newly revealed Nasa Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, located over 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin).

New research suggests that ancient, tightly packed clumps of stars found at the fringe of the Milky Way are a good bet in the search for extra terrestrial intelligence (Seti).

Behold the majestic celestial display, the first for the New Year when the Quadrantid meteor storm will reach its peak early Monday morning with a spectacular show of ‘shooting stars’ most likely over North America and Europe.

A musician combines the logarithmic maps of the universe from Princeton and images from NASA to create an image showing the observable universe in one disc.

A spectacular new photo of Earth from space recalls the two most famous images of our planet ever taken, reports space.com.

Chinese lunar rover Yutu has discovered new volcanic rocks on Moon unlike those returned by Apollo and Luna missions, offering tantalising clues to the period of lunar volcanism.