Space Science News Articles

One of the most unusual things about the earth is the large amount of oxygen in its atmosphere, which isn't stable...

Spectral analysis has confirmed the sighting of the most distant galaxy ever seen, at a red shift of z=8.6...

A new model has been used to predict the numbers of Earth-size exoplanets, and found far more than we expected. Now we...

Enormous bubbles of gamma ray radiation may be evidence that the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way may have...

Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have been colliding lead ions - allowing us to get an idea of conditions in...

New evidence from Galaxy Zoo suggests that galaxies with a central bar are more likely to contain older, red stars,...

A team of astronomers have successfully looked back about 13 billion years to pinpoint one of the first galaxies to...

Observations with the Very Large Telescope have shed light on how early galaxies grew, by funnelling cold primordial...

In a case of cosmic forensics that could rival even an episode of CSI, scientists have pinpointed a moment 18 months...

A selection of headlines from the British Science Festival 2010, held in the city of Birmingham...

Evidence has been found of a catastrophic period of bombardment on the Moon...

A paper published this week in the Astrophysical Journal presents the first direct observations of small asteroids in...

Astronomers have been looking to distant galaxies for clues on closing the gap on estimates for the mass of the...

Scientists internationally have successfully measured the diameter and brightness of an object 6 billion kilometres...

Astronomers studying enigmatic grooves on the surface of Mars have uncovered secrets about the planet's historic...

Scientists have discovered a new way for stars to kill themselves, perhaps also explaining where the calcium in our...

The recently-launched Herschel space telescope has revealed a new way in which massive stars might form - at points...

Suzanne Smrekar and colleagues have been studying Venus using an instrument on the ESA Venus Express mission and found...

This week astronomers have solved a long-running debate over the nature of the surface of our neighbour planet, Venus,...

One quarter of the star clusters in our galaxy may, in fact, be aliens, according to a paper in Monthly Notices of the...

NASA launches the Solar Dynamics Observatory to monitor the sun in an unprecidented way...

A European team of scientists may have discovered a shortcut to finding distant planets orbiting far-off stars - you...