The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is reaching some key milestones in its preparation for launch in 2018.

It will be possible to see all the five bright planets align together in the sky for the first time in more than a decade.

Since Einstein, physicists have found that certain entities can reach superluminal (that means "faster-than-light") speeds and still follow the cosmic rules laid down by special relativity.

Newly released treasure trove of historical data reveals intriguing details about a secret Cold War project known as the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), reports Space.com.

Behold the majestic celestial display, the first for the New Year when the Quadrantid meteor storm will reach its peak early Monday morning with a spectacular show of ‘shooting stars’ most likely over North America and Europe.

British astronaut Tim Peake dials wrong number from space.

UK astronaut Tim Peake is ready to make his landmark flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

The telecom regulator has signed a Tk 1951.75 crore deal with Thales Alenia Space, awarding the French company a work order for commercial and broadcast satellite Bangabandhu-1.

The mystery behind a the strange 'alien megastructure' could soon be solved.

The Cassini probe is all set to make a daring close flyby of Enceladus, an ice-rich moon of Saturn.

Waking up hundreds of miles above the Himalayas, astronaut Scott Kelly broke the US record for the most time spent in space with 383 days.

Playing with water in the space is indeed an exciting thing for us on Earth. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly demonstrates how it looks like.

The Kepler Space Telescope has spotted a 'bizarre' star system that looks like something an alien civilisation would have built, experts have said.

The gravitational pull of earth is massaging the moon, opening up faults in the lunar crust, researchers say.

A multi-billion-dollar robot dispatched to Mars to search for life must steer clear of promising "hot spots" for fear of spreading microbes from Earth, Nasa project scientists say.

India today successfully launched a satellite-launch-vehicle carrying ASTROSAT, its first astronomy observatory to study distant celestial objects.

New pictures have been released from the New Horizons probe’s flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto.

Researchers at the European Space Agency harness the natural lensing properties of cosmic gravity to get a closer look at a black hole.

On Tuesday night, Jupiter and Venus will culminate a month-long dance with what astronomers say will be a dazzling display, appearing just a fraction of a degree apart from one another in the night sky--a show that some astronomers say could account for the "Star of Bethlehem" mentioned in the Bible reports CNN.

As the NASA designs a fitness program for astronauts whose goal is to combat space's toll on the body, their discoveries could help keep us Earthlings in shape.