The BFR will be capable of taking people from any city to any other city on Earth in under one hour. Elon Musk laid out a set of ambitious plans on Thursday for a vehicle he has dubbed the Big Fucking Rocket (BFR). The massive spaceship will not only ferry people around on Earth in minuscule amount...

A photo taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter appears to show spiders walking across the surface of Mars, but, in this case, things do not always look as they appear.

Private spaceflight company SpaceX has successfully landed its first-stage booster rocket on an ocean platform in the Atlantic Ocean, marking just the second time that a reusable rocket has been safely brought back to Earth.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics detector that could unlock mysteries about dark matter and other cosmic radiation, is installed outside the International Space Station.

A look at the James Webb Space Telescope, its mission and the incredible technological challenge this mission presents. The Webb is now in the final stages of testing in the U.S. before being shipped to French Guiana ahead of its expected launch from there at the end of October, 2021.

ESA's Mars500 crew members Diego Urbina and Romain Charles recorded 15 video diaries from all phases of their simulated mission to Mars, plus hundreds of photos and other video clips. Most of these are available on ESA's Mars500 website (www.esa.int/Mars500), but here is a compilation of their YouTu...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has begun beaming back photographs of the surface of Pluto as it approaches the dwarf planet. . Report by Conor Mcnally.

US space agency NASA has warned that a huge 1,082 ft asteroid bigger than the Eiffel Tower will break into Earth’s orbit in just over a week.The space rock is heading our way and should skim past us on December 11. NASA has its eye on Asteroid 4660 Nereus because it’s well over 492 feet long and wil

The Parker solar probe spacecraft has been launched successfully by Nasa. It was sent off into space on board the Delta-IV Heavy Rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The satellite is designed to fly within six million kilometres of the Sun – closer than ever before.

Seven Earth-sized planets have been observed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope around a tiny, nearby, ultra-cool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1. Three of these planets are firmly in the habitable zone. Over 21 days, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope measured the drop in light as each planet passed in fro