Space

Unambiguous detection of water on the moon could help facilitate eventual crewed missions to Mars.

Images beamed back to ground control revealed it caught more material than scientists anticipated.

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russia’s Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner touch down safely on...

Scientists want at least 60 grams of Bennu’s carbon-rich material – thought to contain the building...

A carbon-rich asteroid named Bennu could contain new information about life on Earth – and elsewhere.

Blue Origin, launching a New Shepard rocket for a seventh time, could help put astronauts back on the moon.

Eight countries have signed a pact to govern lunar exploration, including human settlements on the moon’s surface.

Chemical signature of phosphine, a gas that on Earth is only associated with life, has been spotted in Venusian clouds.

Space exploration can teach human solidarity when we need it the most – amid a pandemic.

US astronauts on historic return from International Space Station in SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon.

The splashdown was the first astronaut water landing since the end of the Apollo programme in the 1970s.

Rover will search for evidence of life and help bring NASA one step closer to landing humans on Mars.

For $250,000 a pop, passengers will strap into their seats and peer out the windows as they travel 97km above Earth.

Moscow responds after the US Space Command accused Russia of test-firing an anti-satellite weapon in space.