Space Science News Stories

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...

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...

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

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

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...