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Water and brine left behind some key ingredients for life, but the environment they created may not have been very hospitable.

NASA's latest rover to Mars got a close look at rocks that came into contact with water within an ancient crater.

Most galaxies are built around humongous black holes. While many of these are comparatively docile, like the one at our Milky Way's center, some are fierce - guzzling surrounding material and unleashing huge and blazingly bright jets of high-energy particles far into space.

The European Space Agency has made history by selecting an amputee who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident to be among its newest batch of astronauts

Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the last Apollo astronauts left our celestial neighbour. Since then, hundreds of astronauts have been launched into space but mainly to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station. None has, in fact, ventured more…

The former Dunblane High student worked for two years at Mission Control in Texas, overseeing $6billion worth of programmes.

Space leaders from around the world touch down in the nation's capital this week to explore humanity's return to the moon and the first crewed missions to Mars. Watch it live here.

We review the ultra-plush Tempur-Adapt Topper to see if it delivers the same luxurious feel as a full Tempur-Pedic mattress.

Every year, meteorite falls happen across the globe. Finding them is an arduous and sometimes dangerous task, but these citizen scientists enjoy the challenge.

NASA's most recent Moon mission is stoking the flames of a burgeoning lunar economy.