Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet status, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hold a special place in scientist's ...

This union was not violent. The two bodies came together at about walking speed, in a meetup more akin to a spacecraft docking than to a collision, said Jeff Moore, leader of New Horizons' geology and ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data ...

The possibility of life beyond Earth has filled our imaginations and been a driving force behind space exploration for ...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Orbital, which features six astronauts on a space station, is about perception, about the idea of ‘big’ and ‘small’, ‘reality’ and ‘illusion’ and about taking a hard ...

The FBI should be closed down and 1.5million government workers sacked under Donald Trump’s new cost-cutting department.

UFOs are now known as UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) to make their serious reporting and study more palatable to the ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...

The twin spacecraft of NASA's TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission were ...