Space Science News Articles

The origins of life on earth are a hotly debated topic among scientists. One theory suggests that meteorites brought...

The mission Stardust-NExT, to study comet Tempel 1, made it's closest ever flyby, observing the surface of the...

Astronomers using the Gemini telescope have "weighed" the black hole at the centre of the M87 Galaxy. They...

NASA's WISE mission, or Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, has spotted the bow shock of a runaway star...

A candidate galaxy spotted at a red shift of 10, likely to be the most distant object observed so far, gives us a...

NASA's STEREO mission - a pair of twin probes monitoring the Sun, have now reached 180 degree separation, allowing...

First picture of the Earth's plasma tail has been taken, and it is more dynamic than expected.

Data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, has been used by amateur astronomers worldwide to spot...

Red Dwarf stars seem to be far more active than previously thought - good news for astronomers, but terrible news for...

This month, researchers working on the Planck project released their first science data - including new galaxy clusters...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has completed an extremely close flyby of Saturn's moon Rhea, returning incredible...

Does Jupiter protect Earth from asteroid impact? A new study evaluates the myth that the giant planet acts as our...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III has released some incredible images of the night sky, and announced plans to image...

Scientists working on data from the SORCE mission have found that the sun changes through it's solar cycle...

Scientists working on data from the Cassini mission have found what looks like an ice volcano on Titan

NASA's Voyager 1 mission has travelled so far from our Sun, it no longer experiences the stream of charged...

Galaxy Zoo - the project that uses the barinpower of it's users to identify interesting aspects in photographs of...

The discovery of bacteria that appear to thrive on toxic arsenic may have implications for our understanding of the...

Iron-loving elements like gold and cobolt are found in Earth's crust at greater concentrations that would be...

Gamma Ray Bursts are some of the most energetic events in the universe - but only around half of them are associated...

A new instrument aboard the SWIFT orbiting telescope has shed new light on the cause of "dark" gamma ray...

An American entrepreneur launches a cheese into space

Observations made by the Keck telescope in Hawaii have confirmed a fourth planet orbiting a nearby star but have thrown...

Saturn’s rings may have originated from a satellite that was stripped of its surface ice when it moved perilously close...