NASA spacecraft set for death plunge into MercuryA NASA probe that has circled Mercury for the past four years will make a dramatic death plunge into the planet's surface in late April when it runs out of fuel.
Famous Kazakh astronaut comments on Rosetta missionFamous Kazakh cosmonaut Talgat Musabayev praises the Rosetta mission, which saw a space probe landing on the surface of a comet for the first time in human history.
Hello Kitty on space missionHello Kitty has been sent on her first space mission, as Japan's global icon of cute celebrates its 40th birthday in extraterrestrial fashion.
China to send orbiter to moon and backChina will launch its first recoverable moon orbiter later this year in the latest step in its ambitious space programme.
11 August 2014 13:40
NASA films grandiose eruption on the SunNASA has released a 40-second video that captured a grand coronal mass ejection from the surface of the Sun at the speed of 1.5 million miles per hour (2.4 kilometers per hour).