Nasa is sending its Opportunity rover looping around a gaping crater rimmed with rocky cliffs that may have formed long ago in a salty ocean.

US President George Bush proposed today to develop a new spacecraft to carry Americans back to the moon by 2015, and to establish a long-term base there as an eventual springboard to Mars and beyond.

A spacecraft that has transmitted information and pictures about Jupiter and its moons for the past eight years took a suicide plunge into the planet’s crushing atmosphere tonight.

Lance Bass has promised to sing aboard the international space station when he visits this autumn.

16 illegal immigrants got more than they bargained for when their boat landed on a beach at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre.