Space Science News Articles

A huge, hot dusty disc around a Sun-like star seems to have vanished before our very eyes, and its disappearance cannot...

The Cassini spacecraft has made measurements of how much Saturn's moon Titan changes shape each time it circles...

Craters around the Moon's south pole may lack the rich reservoirs of water ice and other volatiles that have been...

Voyager 1, launched in the 70s, appears to be leaving the solar system

A plan to rescue stranded satellites has been developed.

Astronomers have caught their best glimpse yet of a star being ripped to pieces by a supermassive black hole.

The timings of supernova explosions close to Earth marry up with epochs in the planet's history when the diversity...

Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early...

The MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the...

Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands,...

Astronomers have found compelling evidence for life in the Universe – but only on Earth. Using a phenomenon known as...

El Gordo, or "ACT-CL J0102-4915" as it's officially known, is the largest, most distant galaxy cluster...

The date has been set for the next leap second – June 30th 2012. Leap seconds help to keep our incredibly accurate...

A pair of new American spacecraft entered orbit about the Moon over the new year period, with the aim of measuring the...

A Gamma Ray Burst recorded on Christmas day 2010 was a special gift to astronomers...

Giant lake beneath the ice on Europa could harbour life

This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 & 2 –...

In September results indicating that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light were released, this week the same...