The only time most of us get to commission photos is at our wedding, so NASA's offer to snap pics of Mars on request is quite an opportunity.
The European Southern Observatory has amalgamated images from its La Silla observatory in Chile to produce the best pictures yet of the Cat's Paw Nebula.
Anything you'd like to know about the atmosphere on Mars? ESA and NASA are inviting scientists from across the world to propose instruments for their joint Mars mission, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
NASA is to start listening out for radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander next week, although it doesn't hold out much hope.
Astronomers have reportedly spotted an unknown space object hurtling towards the planet Earth.
Astronomers have released pictures of the dramatic embers of the high-temperature fireballs that immediately followed two supernovae.
Astronomers have worked out that around 15 percent of stars host solar systems like our own, with several gas giant planets in the outer regions.
NASA's Solar and Helioscopic Observatory (SOHO) has captured footage of a comet being swallowed by the sun.
New satellite images suggest that Mars was warm enough to sustain lakes as recently as three billion years ago.
NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered five planets located outside of our solar system.
But rules out nuclear strike
Osiris-Rex, SAGE or MoonRise
They'll know it when they see it
?An "unsettling" combination of strangeness
Methane couldn't be coming from meteorites