Mars and Earth are at their closest encounter in more than a decade with only 47 million miles separating the two planets. The closest recorded encounter in the last 60, 000 years was in 2003 when the two cosmic buddies are only 35 million miles apart.
NASA's New horizons spacecraft is spinning away from Pluto right to the edge of the solar system.
A number of probabilities for the formation of Planet Nine have been thrown up, but they sound far-fetched and highly unlikely.
Scientists have developed a new technique that captures clear images of the Red Planet.
The Akatsuki Japanese spacecraft is getting ready to study Venus' clouds, weather and atmosphere even though it has failed once in entering the Venusian orbit.
A triple-star system with a Hot Jupiter exoplanet has been discovered by scientists.
In a first of its kind, NASA will be conducting a spacecraft fire experiment on 22 March 2016, to study how fire reacts in a weightless environment. Termed as Saffire, the experiment involves a Cygnus cargo vehicle, which will be set on fire during its return journey from the International Space Station (ISS).
The satellite, DMSP 13, was launched in 1995.
