The carbon fibre Solar Impulse plane has the wingspan of a 747 but only weighs as much a Honda Prius.

Dennis Tito is planning a private mission to Mars in 2018. Inspiration Mars Foundation aims to inspire and wants to take advantage of the way the planets line up in 2018.

Forget Bruce Willis detonating a nuclear bomb to deflect an Earth-bound asteroid - all you need to do to divert an oncoming space rock is give it a lick of paint.

Sub-audible infrasonic waves from the meteor which exploded over a remote region of Russia last week were recorded 15,000km away in Antarctica.

A popular Canadian astronaut orbiting the earth 16 times a day is beaming his “Space Kitchen” cooking show back down to his fans.

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.