Elon Musk has tweeted pictures of SpaceX performing the first firing test for its powerful Raptor engine.

Elon Musk is invading the Red Planet in the next two years with firm plans for a Mars landing.

Poor Scott Kelly. Just weeks after setting the astronaut space flight record he's set to lose it to a space veteran.

Sketches and paintings to poems and songs, your art, videos and photos could end up on a journey through space.

A new panorama for a new self portrait gives us a whole new look at the Mars Curiosity rover

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Gallery Space projects and missions to distant asteroids are planned many decades in advance. Here's what the next decade has in store.

A major upgrade has allowed Curiosity to recognise many more kinds of mineral than previously possible.

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A new sampling from the Mars rover indicates the Red Planet was at one time capable of supporting living organisms.