A new video captures the moment Philae, Europe's now-famous comet lander, first approached Comet 67P for its historic landing on 12 November last year.

A new video captures the moment Philae, Europe's now-famous comet lander, first approached Comet 67P for its historic landing on 12 November last year.

A giant slab of ice as big as California and Texas combined lurks just beneath the surface of Mars between its equator and north pole, space.com reports.

Russian astronaut Gennady Padalka has returned to Earth with the record for having spent the most time in space.

New pictures have been released from the New Horizons probe’s flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto.

If a mission extension is approved, the New Horizons spacecraft will take a short jaunt to a mysterious icy object in the Kuiper Belt, reports CNET.

Researchers discover an ice sheet on Mars that looks bigger than Texas and California cities of US.

A team of Nasa recruits begins living in a dome near a barren volcano in Hawaii to simulate what life would be like on Mars.

Stuff that falls into a black hole is gone forever, right? Not so, says Stephen Hawking.

Buried deep in the Antarctic ice, an observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside the galaxy and points beyond the Milky Way.

The Cassini mission to Saturn returns its final close-up images of the gas giant's Dione moon.

The US space agency has dismissed the much talked about rumour on social media and various posts stating that a giant space rock impacting the Blue Marble sometime between September 15-28 this year, reports the Times of India.

People were treated to beautiful photos of Pluto’s surface when Nasa flew a spacecraft by Pluto for the first time in history last month on July 14, but unfortunately, there was no video of the dwarf planet's flyby -- until now!

According to a new study, our system was once home to a fifth gas giant that suddenly vanished some 4 billion years ago after a run-in with Neptune.

A planet 100 light-years away resembles an infant version of Jupiter, astronomers say.

A trio of scientists says they've identified the best place to look for evidence of ancient life on Mars — one of the youngest lake-bearing basins ever discovered.

A team of astronomers publishes a multi-coloured survey of five chunks of space - and offered the best estimate yet of how fast the Universe is fading.

A super-dense neutron star some 4,400 light-years away is not shy about showing off its strength, reports Huffington Post.

In the quarter-century that it's been eyeing the cosmos, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken some pretty spectacular photos of "a dying star's final moment.

An aurora has been spotted outside our Solar System for the first time, scientists report.