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Astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop....

The first results from Nasa's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (Ibex) spacecraft show unexpected features at our Solar System's edge.

For as long as man has looked up, the moon has inspired romance, poetry and songs. Man also likes blowing things up. Now we get to do both — in the name of science. The aim of Friday's deliberate crash of two unmanned NASA spacecraft into ...

Completing an orbit in less than an Earth day, planet Wasp-18b should have burned up, according to accepted theory. Scientists have discovered a planet that shouldn't exist. The finding, they say, could alter our understanding of orbital dynamics, a field considered pretty well settled since the time of astronomer Johannes Kepler 400 years ago.

Dare to fall into a black hole and you would get vaporized in what is probably the most violent place in the universe. But the journey would yield some amazing sights, though you might need three eyes for the best view of what's going on, new research suggests.

As part of the Google Lunar X Prize, Paragon Space Development Corp. has recently teamed with Odyssey Moon to develop a pressurized mini greenhouse to deploy on the surface of the moon, grow a plant from seed, and hopefully see it flower and seed itself. It marks a critical stage of development for extending life beyond the confines of our planet.

Rocks from Mars could be brought to the UK within the next 20 years, if a bid to host a study facility is successful.

NASA has postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery because of a gas leak. The leak of gaseous hydrogen occurred as the launch team was filling the external fuel tank for liftoff Wednesday night. The seven astronauts had yet to board the spaceship.

Mars appears to have had running water on its surface about one million years ago, according to new evidence.

Theoretical calculations done by astrophysicists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem led by Professor Avishai Dekel, show that low mass galaxies can form when intergalactic gas streams into dark matter haloes and not by intergalactic gas heated by a virial shock to millions of degrees.