SPACE

The Apollo 1 mission was slated to be NASA's first manned mission to the moon.

Around 3.7 million Americans believe they have experienced alien abduction.

Hubble constant, measured to 3.8% accuracy, indicates "we are missing something fundamental".

Plans for second mission announced at unveiling of the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft at the Science Museum.

Years of controversy surround Lake Cheko and arguments it was formed by 1908 Tunguska event.

The 45ft asteroid travelling at 16,600mph will pass earth at a distance of 162,252 miles.

Astronomer Stephen Kane analyses a potentially habitable planet just 14 light years away.

In seven billion years Earth will be destroyed by the Sun - but plenty of things could cause extinctions before that.

BAE Systems is using energy in the atmosphere to create on-demand deflector shields and spy lenses.

The huge bright, hot structure was found in the upper atmosphere by the Jaxa Akatsuki spacecraft.

This was astronauts Shane Kimbrough's fourth and Thomas Pesquet's first spacewalk.

Astronomers say asteroid 2017 AG13 had similar destructive potential as Chelyabinsk strike in 2013.

Very Large Telescope will be used to look at the star system and consider the best targets for exploration.

Study indicates a giant collision between Earth and the Mars-sized protoplanet Theia never happened.

8 January is also the 300th anniversary of the death of physicist Galileo Galilei.

There's just a one in a million chance of predicting an explosion – and US scientists have done just that.

Calculations indicate Rydberg atoms will be disturbed in a significant way even by low-mass particles

X-rays and data from the Hubble Telescope show the densest cluster of black holes ever observed.

The space agency has prioritised the missions over returning to Venus to explore its volcanoes.

Scientists pinpoint location of repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102 – but they still don't know what's producing it.

Space agency will discuss its future plans for space explorations that will 'unlock mysteries of the solar system'.

Scientists say they have never seen anything quite like it before.

Scientists calculated how much dark matter was lost by combining observations with models.

2016 was an exciting year for space and astronomy, and 2017 should be just as good.

The first robotic Mars probe will be launched by 2020, Wu Yanhua of China National Space Administration said.

Vera Rubin had to overcome significant barriers as a pioneering female scientist.

Repeating FRBs came from same location far beyond the Milky Way where 10 had previously been detected.

If there was a massive star in the sky, why didn't King Herod and his advisers know about it ?

What theoretical physicists have found out about the cosmos over the past 12 months.