Google is backing private attempts to put a rover on the Moon with a $30m prize pot.

The UK could soon have its first lunar mission - an orbiting spacecraft firing instruments into the Moon's surface.

The Twenty First Century collides with the Eighteenth in a new BBC programme called The Ship. Breakfast talked to the director - and one of the volunteer crew

Even if vast quantities of water-ice are just below the Martian surface, space officials will think long and hard before approving a manned mission to the Red Planet.

Scientists use stem cells to treat successfully mice and rats that mimic symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Our science editor Dr David Whitehouse puts the launch of the first space station crew into context.

An historic announcement that a rough draft of the human genome has been finished is due on Monday.

Geoff Perry, one of the pioneers of tracking satellites, has died.

The first American in space and the fifth man to walk upon the Moon has died at the age of 74.