A trio of scientists says they've identified the best place to look for evidence of ancient life on Mars — one of the youngest lake-bearing basins ever discovered.

NASA astronauts have eaten food grown in space for the first time in history, reports Vox.com.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity snaps some beautiful photos of a blue-tinged sunset on the Red Planet.

In the quarter-century that it's been eyeing the cosmos, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken some pretty spectacular photos of "a dying star's final moment.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has completed its highly anticipated close flyby of Pluto, but the probe's work at the outer reaches of the solar system is far from done, reports Space.com.

Queen guitarist Brian May helps NASA team examine data on Pluto sent by New Horizons spacecraft.

A haul of planets from Nasa's Kepler telescope includes a world sharing many characteristics with Earth.

New pictures relayed by the first spacecraft to visit distant Pluto show odd polygon-shaped features and smooth hills in an crater-free plain, indications that the icy world is geologically active.

The spotlight is bright enough to thaw even Pluto.

The spotlight is bright enough to thaw even Pluto.

The internet is one place where the breathtaking ground breaking new images of the dwarf planet Pluto can be plastered with Donald Trump’s facer or even converted to Kim Kardashians behind.

Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft has made the first visit to Pluto, speeding past at 14km per second.

Engineers say the New Horizons spacecraft is in "great shape" for its historic flyby of Pluto this week.

Take a good look at the latest picture of Pluto because it shows the face of the dwarf planet that will not be seen during next week's historic flyby.

A space telescope designed to look into the furthest-most reaches of space at some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe has, once again, been turned to face our nearest star, producing a rare and beautiful insight to our X-ray sun.

A spacecraft of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), New Horizons, cut off communications with Earth as it was headed toward Pluto on July 4.

A ring-like filament of stars wrapping around the Milky Way may actually belong to the galaxy itself, rippling above and below the relatively flat galactic plane. If so, that would expand the size of the known galaxy by 50% and raise intriguing questions about what caused the waves of stars.

Tuesday will be a bit longer than other days because an extra second, or ‘leap’ second, will be added to the day.

Nasa has reached out to the scientific community to help identify landing sites for a manned mission to Mars even though a trip by astronauts to the Red Planet is expected only by the late 2030s.

Astronomers discover 854 "ultra dark galaxies" filled with mysterious dark matter in the Coma Cluster, one of the richest cluster of galaxies containing thousands of systems reports The Times of India.