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Scientists are shooting stem cells into space, hoping to make discoveries that help people on Earth

VFTS243 has a mass nine times that of the Sun’s and is in a binary system with a companion star

The long-term stability of the Solar System has been the subject of scientific investigation for centuries.

Scientists have found more of the ingredients for life as we know it in a gaseous cloud toward the center of the Milky Way.

From the Earth's sun to the Milky Way and beyond, these stunning images from around the world, including one from Australia, have been short-listed in the competition's 14th year.

Nasa has recently announced US$600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending swarms of miniature swimming robots (known as independent micro-swimmers) to explore oceans beneath the icy shells of our Solar System’s many “ocean worlds”. But don’t imagine metal humanoids swimming frog-like underwater. They will probably…

Pathfinder brought the first rover to the Martian surface. The mission paved the way for Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance.

NASA's mission to a planet's former core will not launch this year, delivering a delay in both launch date and prolonging the eventual arrival date.