A stunning new map of the surface of Mercury has revealed the planet to be a "fascinating, dynamic and complex world".

A 46-metre cosmic rock has hurtled safely past Earth this morning.

Astronomers believe they may have discovered the youngest black hole in the Milky Way galaxy.

An asteroid which is to hurtle close to the Earth tomorrow may experience a seismic jolt as it passes through our planet’s gravitational field, scientists suggest.

A 45m-wide chunk of rock is set to whistle by Earth at a distance closer to the planet than some satellites - but there's no need to prepare for the end of the world just yet.

Even though wheelchairs may fold up for easy transport in a car or plane, their wheels don't get smaller. That's where the Morph Folding Wheelchair Wheel comes in.

An ancient asteroid about half a football field in diameter will hurtle just 28,000 kilometres past Earth next week - but details are sketchy.

A solar "superstorm" could knock out Earth's communications satellites, cause dangerous power surges and disrupt crucial navigation aids, a report says.

There are only 7 northern white rhinos left in the world and 4 of them live in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Protecting them and the other rhinos, elephants, leopards and other animals in the reserve is a particularly hard job for the 190 rangers.

Add two to the number of satellites orbiting Earth. The other day Japan put two cutting edge information gathering satellites into polar orbit flying from south to north.

Backpacks on mussels? Researchers at the University of Iowa attached wireless sensor packages to Mississippi river mussels that measure how open their shells are.

A NASA astronaut has today tweeted out a picture of Mt Taranaki as seen from the International Space Station.

Getting sleep will be one of the biggest challenges facing astronauts in any manned mission to Mars, according to a study of six men.

A team of former Nasa executives is launching a private venture to send people to the moon for a price that is definitely out of this world.

Giacomo Sardelli wanted to use pictures taken from the International Space Station to tell a story and share the message sent by the astronauts who worked on the station in the last 11 years. They are working to open a Gateway to Space for all humankind, the astronauts are leaving our planet which they see spinning faster and faster, merging earth, oceans and people together, ready to follow them, Further Up Yonder. Images courtesy of Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Music: Synthetic Truth, by digitalR3public - licensed under a Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 License Audio messages courtesy of NASA