Elon Musk's SpaceX company has confirmed that its space-faring Tesla Roadster and its driver Starman have passed beyond Mars and will soon reach their point furthest from the Sun. In a few days, the car will swing around and head back towards the Sun and will eventually pass closest to Earth in 2020.

The first images of the Bennu asteroid have been shared by NASA, which has collected them from its OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft. The mission aims to touch down on the surface of the asteroid and collect a sample to be brought back to Earth, where it will be studied to learn about the origin of the solar system.

Scientists from Queensland University of Technology have announced that they will repurpose autonomous underwater drones to rebuild areas of coral reefs that have been damaged by rising sea temperatures. The drones will deliver coral larvae to damaged reefs to encourage them to take root and grow.

After 11 years spent studying two large objects in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the dwarf planet Ceres and the giant asteroid Vesta, NASA's Dawn mission has drawn to a close. The craft has run out of fuel and will no longer be able to charge its solar cells or communicate with Earth.

NASA's Kepler telescope has been decommissioned after nine years of hunting for planets outside of our solar system. The mission was only expected to last 3.5 years but ended up successfully transmitting data for much longer. Now all of that data is made publicly available for scientists to learn from.

Developer Ubisoft has caused controversy by announcing that they will be releasing an update to Rainbow Siege Six which will streamline the game for the international market. The changes include removing background graphical elements which reference sex, gambling, or death, and have angered many fans.

A spacecraft with a mission to explore Mercury has been launched in a combined effort by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The aim of the mission is to study Mercury's inner core and perhaps even to discover information about the formation of our solar system.

NASA has announced that the Hubble telescope has been fixed. On October 5, the telescope suffered a failure of one of six gyros on board -- instruments which measure the rotation of the craft. After the activation of a backup gyro and a series of maneuvers, the telescope will return to normal operations.

The developers of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 have taken to Reddit to remind players not to abuse exploits like the one that allows multiple copies of the same perk to be equipped in multiplayer mode. Players are temporarily suspended for a first offense or banned for repeat offenses.

The Google homepage has been updated for mobile devices and now features the new version of the Discover feed. The feed shows a series of cards with content pulled from around the web. The rollout is just for the U.S. so far, but does apply to both Android and iOS devices.

An extensive ruling released by the Library of Congress protects the rights of customers to get around digital rights management software in order to repair their devices. In addition, historical video games can be legally archived now to preserve them for future generations of gamers.

Tiny new drones that can pull objects of up to 40 times their own weight have been developed by scientists working in the U.S. and Switzerland. The drones can perform complex tasks like lassoing a door handle to open it or navigating small spaces to deliver bottles of water in a rescue scenario.

Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot feature, which goes live tonight, will assist drivers by guiding the car from the on-ramp to the off-ramp of a highway, including making suggestions for lane changes and navigating highway interchanges. The speed of the lane changes is set by driver preferences.