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The PAMELA satellite has discovered that there's an antiproton belt present in the Earth's magnetosphere.

In a spectacle that might have beguiled poets, lovers and songwriters if only they had been around to see it, Earth once had two moons, astronomers now think. But the smaller one smashed into the other in what is being called the "big splat."...

NASA says a newly discovered asteroid will have a close encounter with Earth today, but there's no need to worry.

The chemical building blocks that make life possible on Earth may have aged to perfection in asteroids, according to a new study.

Two astronauts made history Friday as the final spacewalkers of NASA's 30-year shuttle program.

Scientists analyzing bits of hardened lava from long-ago lunar eruptions found about as much water as in similar magmas on Earth.

A NASA spacecraft will reach out and touch an asteroid and send pieces back to Earth.

The 12 astronauts circling the Earth received a blessing from Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday in the first ever papal call to space.

After working for half a century and spending £500m, scientists last week revealed that they have detected strange fluctuations in Earth's orbit. Space-time is bent and then twisted round our planet as it rotates, announced researchers with Nasa's Gravity Probe B project.

The idea that an ordinary person taking a trip beyond Earth's atmosphere is no longer fantasy. Private companies are soliciting passengers for commercial trips to space.