A team of researchers has outlined how a new "direct fusion drive" propulsion system could allow us to reach Sedna this ...

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

So in honour of Asteroid Day, we decided to shoot ... Image from National Air and Space Museum. Kuiper Belt, a cold icy donut. Image from NASA. So long story short, Pluto got demoted to a dwarf planet ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

Space brings threat and opportunity in equal measure, but knowledge is power, says renowned astrophysicist ahead of 10th ...

Ceres holds plenty of water to sustain life and can also act as propulsion fuel. A study has proposed building a space ...

The Solar System might not be as quiet and orderly as we think. Imagine one day looking up and seeing something strange in ...

What was supposed to be a two-year stint turned into a long-term love story with Luxembourg. Ola, originally from Egypt and a ...

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.