American astronaut Alan Bean, who walked on the moon in 1969 during the Apollo 12 mission and commanded a crew on the Skylab space station in 1973 before giving up his career to become a full-time painter, dies in Houston on Saturday, officials said.

The US space agency says Friday it plans to launch the first-ever helicopter to Mars in 2020, a miniature, unmanned drone-like chopper that could boost our understanding of the Red Planet.

NASA blasts off its newest planet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, a $337 million satellite that aims to scan 85 percent of the skies for cosmic bodies where life may exist.

NASA is poised to launch a $337 million washing machine-sized spacecraft that aims to vastly expand mankind's search for planets beyond our solar system, particularly closer, Earth-sized ones that might harbor life.

NASA has transformed selfies taken by its Mars rover Curiosity into a stunning self-portrait.

A solar system with as many planets as our own has been discovered with the help of NASA's Kepler space telescope and artificial intelligence, the US space agency says.

Skywatchers could catch a glimpse of a bigger and brighter full moon than usual tonight," NASA says in a statement.

The world must sharply draw down greenhouse gas emissions and suck billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the air if today's youth are to be spared climate cataclysm, a top scientist warns.

Uber unveils a partnership with NASA that will see it develop flying taxis priced competitively with standard Uber journeys.

Global astronomers bid farewell to NASA's famed Cassini spacecraft, which launched 20 years ago to circle Saturn and transformed the way we think about life elsewhere in the solar system.

Two high-intensity solar flares are emitted, the second of which was the most intense recorded since the start of this sun cycle in December 2008, says NASA.

NASA reveals 10 new rocky, Earth-sized planets that could potentially have liquid water and support life.

Two US astronauts overcome an early equipment glitch to complete an abbreviated spacewalk outside the International Space Station, accomplishing all the major tasks initially planned for a longer excursion in four hours, NASA says.

India successfully launches 20 satellites in a single mission, the most in the history of the country's ambitious space programme.

UK astronaut Tim Peake is back on Earth after a historic six-month stay on the International Space Station.

The Earth gets a small companion. NASA scientists discover a small asteroid in an orbit around the Sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth and it will remain so for centuries to come.

Mars is going through an ice age, according to a new study. Based on radar data collected by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers at the Southwest Research Institute have found an increase in ice at Mars' north pole is consistent with the long-term drop in temperature associated with an ice age.

Oceans on Europa, one of Jupiter’s 67 known moons, might have a lot in common with our own oceans, including a chemical balance capable of harboring life, according to a new study released by NASA on Tuesday.

April is the seventh month in a row that breaks global temperature records, Nasa figures show.

Nasa's Kepler telescope has discovered more than 100 Earth-sized planets orbiting alien stars.