China launches two astronauts into space, official media says, on a mission to its orbiting laboratory as the country works towards setting up its own space station.

China is to launch a manned space mission, official media says, as the Asian giant works towards setting up its own space station.

A rocky planet discovered in the "habitable" zone of the star nearest our Sun may be covered with oceans, researchers at France's CNRS research institute say.

The decade long Rosetta mission ends with the closest look at a comet ever, reports Space.com citing the European Space Agency (ESA).

An Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Florida carrying a robot space probe on NASA's first quest to collect samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth in hopes of learning more about the origins of life.

Israel's Space Communication Ltd say on Sunday it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk's SpaceX after a Spacecom communications satellite is destroyed by an explosion at SpaceX's Florida launch site.

Six scientists complete a yearlong Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in a dome in near isolation.

The Perseids, the most-watched meteor shower of the year, is happening right now.

A crater on Mars is named after one of the villages worst hit by the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.

Astronomers think, Kepler-62f, which they are calling “Super Earth”, is capable of sustaining life.

India launches an unmanned model space shuttle into orbit, joining the race for re-useable spacecraft.

The New Horizons space probe is bringing new images of a remnant of the early solar system, after its historic brush with Pluto last summer, reports ABC News.

Andre Brahic, one of the people who discovered the rings of Neptune, has died aged 73, his publisher says.

NASA researchers have detected atomic oxygen in Mars' atmosphere for the first time in 40 years, thanks to the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) which soars on a plane 13.7 kilometres (45,000 feet) above Earth, reports Science Alert.

A transit of Mercury over the disc of the Sun will take place this afternoon and be visible from Bangladesh.

An international team of scientists said Monday they had discovered a trio of Earth-like planets that are the best bet so far for finding life outside our solar system.

UK astronaut Tim Peake runs the distance of the London Marathon on a treadmill in the International Space Station (ISS).

Far far away in the constellation Cancer there is a 14th magnitude speck of light one can claim in a 10-inch or larger telescope. Essentially this tiny speck represents the final farewell of chewed up stars as their remains whirl down the throat of an 18 billion solar mass black hole, one of the largest known in the universe.

The astronomers recently caught a real-life "Death Star" in the act of destroying a planet which is continuing to disintegrate nearby orbiting objects, reports Space.com.

US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have touched down on Earth after almost a year in space.