Data from NASA's MRO have revealed that Mars once hosted vast lakes, flowing rivers and a variety of other wet environments.

A date of 2018 for launching an unmanned international mission designed to return samples of Martian rock and soil to Earth.

Cosmonauts have completed a spacewalk to remove an explosive bolt from a Soyuz capsule attached to the ISS.

Tiny Moon beads collected by Apollo astronauts decades ago have been found to contain water.

Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on Sep. 5.

Martian soil appears to contain sufficient nutrients to support life.

An amateur Gloucestershire astronomer has had an asteroid named after him after Sir Patrick Moore nominated him for the honour.

ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft has just discovered its 1500th comet.

A space mission that will be critical to our understanding of climate change has launched from California.

A small marine animal that spends most of its life buried in the sand is unwittingly helping scientists understand the evolution of humans.