NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, WISE, has uncovered new clues about the Jovian Trojans - asteroids that orbit the sun on the same path as Jupiter in two 'packs'.
Felix Baumgartner successfully completed his record-breaking jump from the edge of space yesterday, becoming the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall.
The water found locked inside soil on the moon's surface derives from hydrogen in the solar wind - meaning there could be water on other apparently-dry bodies in the solar system too.
The first rock to be touched by NASA's Curiosity rover - dubbed Jake Matijevic - turns out to have a very Earth-like composition, different to anything before seen on Mars.
Carnegie Mellon University spinoff Astrobotic Technology has now completed a full-size prototype of a solar-powered robot designed to search for water ice at the moon's poles.
The ESA's Hershel space observatory recently discovered enough water vapor to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing into a new Sun-like star.
The Dragon Space X commercial cargo ship was lofted into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 8:35 p.m. EDT, putting on a spectacular show of light and thunder from the rocket's nine engines.
