The Bangabandhu-1 satellite will be ready to start for testing operation from September, says State Minister for Telecommunication Tarana Halim. The satellite will be prepared by November depending on weather and schedule of the USA launcher, she says.

Astronomers find a new application for Albert Einstein's century-old theory of relativity - using it to directly measure the size of a star beyond the sun.

A new NASA mission aims to brush by the sun, coming closer than any spacecraft in history to its scorching heat and radiation in order to reveal how stars are made, the US space agency says.

Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant.

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.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket recovered at sea from its maiden flight last year blasts off again from Florida in the first successful launch of a recycled orbital-class booster.

SpaceX is poised to launch its first recycled rocket, using a booster that sent food and supplies to the astronauts living at the International Space Station in April.

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.

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.

SpaceX says it has determined the cause of a launchpad explosion that destroyed a satellite in September and is ready to start launches again.

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

An unmanned H-2B rocket blasts off from Tanegashima island in southern Japan to send a cargo ship to the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast shows.

Three astronauts land safely in Kazakhstan on Sunday following a 115-day mission aboard the International Space Station, including US astronaut Kate Rubins, the first person to sequence DNA in space.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gives more details about his plan to colonize Mars.

Mission controllers are in the dark about the fate of a tiny European craft despatched to Mars as a trial run for a rover to follow in a quest for life on the Red Planet.