Space

Features about space science, astronomy, rockets, planets, galaxies, stars...

15 September 2016

The world’s first alien life form containment facility is under discussion in Europe as ESA looks at ways to bring a...

17 March 2016

European researchers are helping humans get to Mars by developing faster engines, solar forecasts and better shielding.

16 February 2016

Various fields of physics predict we might live in a "multiverse"...

10 December 2015

Galaxies aren’t as massive as computer simulations suggest they should be...

03 December 2015

100 years ago, Einstein's theory of general relativity changed the world. Before that though, came special...

16 October 2012

And has life evolved elsewhere in the Solar System too?

25 May 2012

Meteorites on the open market routinely fetch a higher price than the equivalent weight of gold. But how does this...

07 December 2010

Is earthquake prediction for California truly a problem beyond the powers of science, or is there something that...

21 November 2010

A massive star ends its life with a BANG – a supernova - seen on Earth as bursts of energy in the form of light,...

19 January 2009

Physics is full of surprises, but none so great as the discovery that 95% of the mass of the Universe is invisible to...

24 May 2008

Recent Mars missions have produced compelling evidence for what was once a wet world, where life could well have...

21 February 2008

When the clipper ship Southern Cross sailed into a living hell off Chile during the night of 2 September 1859, little...

01 February 2008

Scientists recently spotted a planet being born. It's just formed and is still enshrouded within the disk of dust...

03 June 2007

What is a thunderstorm, how is lightning generated by clouds, how much energy is there in a lightning bolt, and could...

21 March 2007

Imagine we had discovered another world, slightly smaller than our own, with rain clouds, rivers and lakes on gently...

11 January 2006

The Hubble Space Telescope has been sending us back incredible pictures of the cosmos. How have recent policy changes...

14 December 2005

George Bush's plan to establish a permanent base on the Moon by 2020, and send astronauts to Mars by 2030, has...