This is the sharpest image yet of the dwarf planet as a whole that we've seen, and it reveals something that scientists hadn't been able to observe before: that the left lobe of Tombough Regio looks very different from the right lobe.

Queen guitarist Brian May helps NASA team examine data on Pluto sent by New Horizons spacecraft.

A haul of planets from Nasa's Kepler telescope includes a world sharing many characteristics with Earth.

The US National Air and Space Museum turns to crowd funding to conserve the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the Moon.

New pictures relayed by the first spacecraft to visit distant Pluto show odd polygon-shaped features and smooth hills in an crater-free plain, indications that the icy world is geologically active.

Engineers say the New Horizons spacecraft is in "great shape" for its historic flyby of Pluto this week.

Researchers at the European Space Agency harness the natural lensing properties of cosmic gravity to get a closer look at a black hole.

A spacecraft of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), New Horizons, cut off communications with Earth as it was headed toward Pluto on July 4.

New Zealand's South Island, and some parts of Australia, has been treated to the Aurora Australis, a natural light display in the sky.

The European Space Agency (Esa) says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth.

A solar-powered plane that is attempting a record-breaking flight around the world has been damaged after making an unscheduled stop in Japan.

Astronomers have witnessed two big blobs of plasma, shot into space by a black hole, cannoning into each other in a dramatic cosmic billiard-shot.

A Russian rocket carrying a Mexican satellite has malfunctioned and crashed in Siberia, Russia's space agency says.

The Russian space agency says that its out-of-control spacecraft has burnt up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.

Europe's Sentinel-1a satellite has got its first good look at the aftermath of Saturday's big quake in Nepal.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is three months from returning to humanity the first-ever close up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto and its system of large and small moons.

The New Horizons probe, which is bearing down on Pluto, captures its first colour image of the distant dwarf planet.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai now has an asteroid named after her, the Malala Fund announced Wednesday, reports mashable.com.

Mars has thousands of glaciers buried beneath its dusty surface, enough frozen water to blanket the planet with a 3.6-foot(1.1- meter) thick layer of ice, scientists say.

The Large Hadron Collider has restarted, with protons circling the machine's 27km tunnel for the first time since 2013.