Around 1 million people gathered in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to witness the launch of Atlantis on Nasa's final space shuttle voyage of the 30-year progam.

Estelle Sarney visited Cape Canaveral as the Endeavour was being prepared for its last flight.

If travelling to a new home might take thousands of years, would humans be able to successfully procreate along the way?

The Sun in all its illuminating glory has for the first time been photographed on all sides at once in an historic image.

A still summer night seems like the perfect time to just lie on your back gazing at the stars.

NASA has just released this amazing image of phytoplankton bloom around the Chatham Islands.

New 'space taxis' could be blasting off from Cape Canaveral in Florida as soon as in 2015, according to Boeing.

Nasa is planning to send a mission to one of the most inhospitable places in the universe – the sun itself.

A US law means supplies of the gas - a vital component in MRI scans - are vanishing fast.

A Japanese space capsule may contain the first-ever asteroid samples that could provide clues into the creation of the solar system.

British scientists have started an ambitious project aimed at searching for signs of extraterrestrial life on Mars.