Space Science News Stories

This week Earth was treated to a fly-past by an asteroid with its own moon...

A system of 11-billion-year-old Earth-sized planets has been discovered, increasing the likelihood of finding...

Space ice contains the chemical building blocks for life

Lasers simulate asteroid and comet impacts and create the building blocks of DNA - in a lab!

DNA smeared on the outside of a rocket launched into space survived the flight and re-entry, and may contaminate...

Many people will have noticed the moon looking especially big and bright recently. This is because of a phenomenon...

Mountaintop exploded off to make way for world's largest telescope

A massive planet twice the size and 17 times the mass of Earth has been announced by scientists at NASA.

Gravity measurements suggest the Saturnian moon Enceladus has a subsurface ocean lurking 30 kilometres below the icy...

Planetary scientists are getting very excited this week as it's announced the discovery of a dwarf planet...

What causes the phenomenal natural light show that is the Northern Lights?

This week the Gaia telescope, a 1 billion pixel camera was tested 1.5 million km from Earth and it works!

In 2014, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will make the first soft landing on a comet.

China has the world’s most ambitious space programme, and 2014 will see the nation take some important steps forward...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent that past 15 months exploring a region of the planet called Gale Crater.

The world record has been broken for the most satellites launched aboard a single rocket.

There's a lot of traffic on it's way to the little red planet right now. Why?

Using videos posted on the Internet, a Czech team have reconstructed the path, and traced the origins of, the 2013...

A planet roughly the same size and with the same composition as the Earth has been discovered orbiting a distant start.

The most distant galaxy yet discovered, dating from 700 million years after the Big Bang has been pinpointed by US...

A free-floating planet without a star to orbit has been found about 80 light years away...

The Curiosity rover has found no evidence of methane in Mars's atmosphere, making it less likely to life lurks...

With the annual Perseid meteor shower hitting its peak this week what's the best way to spot a shooting star?

Radio astronomers have made the first measurements of the magnetic field around the black hole at the centre of the...