Space Science News Stories

Up to half of all hot Jupiters may orbit their parent star contrary to the star's direction of rotation. New...

Results from Gravity Probe B test and support Einstein's theories of relativity - and have only been 50 years in...

Two predictions made from general relativity in 1918 have been finally tested...

Bacteria can survive accelerations of 400,000g, making it highly likely that bugs could survive an interplanetary crash...

Samples from comet Wild 2 show that they have been in contact with liquid water in the past

A strange anomaly in the movement of the Pioneer probes may have been explained

This week, news that MESSENGER has become the first space probe ever to be placed into orbit around the planet Mercury...

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 Cassini mission have found what looks like an ice volcano on Titan

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

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...